yocto / yoclib-propertylist-php

This yocLibrary enables your project to encode and decode Property List files in PHP.

yocLib - Property List (PHP)

This yocLibrary enables your project to encode and decode Property List files in PHP.

Status

Installation

composer require yocto/yoclib-propertylist

Use

Serialization

use YOCLIB\PropertyList\PropertyList;

$object = ['string_data',true,false];

$plist = new PropertyList;
$plist->setObject($object);

$xml = $plist->serialize(PropertyList::FORMAT_XML);

Deserialization

use YOCLIB\PropertyList\PropertyList;

$xml = '<plist xlmns="https://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd" version="1.0"><array><string>string_data</string><true/><false/></array></plist>';

$plist = new PropertyList;
$plist->deserialize(PropertyList::FORMAT_XML,$xml);

$object = $plist->getObject();

Supported Formats

A Property List comes in one of the following formats:

Format	Supported in this library	Description
ASCII	⚠️ (No comments yet)	(The original, legacy format developed by NeXT for NeXTStep and later OPENSTEP)
GNUstep ASCII	⚠️ (No comments yet)	The NeXTStep/OPENSTEP ASCII format, but extended by GNU for GNUstep
GNUstep Binary	❌	A binary variant of the property list developed by GNU for GNUstep
XML	✅	Introduced in Apple's Mac OS X 10.0; currently version 1.0
Binary	❌	Introduced in Apple's MAC OS X 10.2; currently version 1.0
JSON	✅	Introduced in Apple's MAC OS X 10.7

Note: At the moment, the implementation of the ASCII formats in this library should not be trusted. It doesn't understand comments, and it has some white-space detection hardcoded, so it is possible that it fails on a valid ASCII Property List.