TysonAndre/ShortVarExport

Builds a small representation of PHP values as PHP code, similar to `var_export`, but with square brackets and less whitespace

ShortVarExport

Introduction

Builds a smaller representation of PHP values as PHP code, similar to var_export.

The representation is also valid, executable PHP code.

This is compatible with PHP 7.0+ (Will work in php5 if you remove scalar type hints and return types, and declare)

• See https://github.com/TysonAndre/Transphpile to automatically convert code

ShortVarExport\Builder::build($value) returns arrays formatted with the php 5.4 square bracket syntax. This isn't fully tested yet.

Supported data types:

• arrays
• scalars (string/float/int/bool)
• null

Unsupported data types, which will trigger an InvalidArgumentException (Support can be added by subclassing the class) (A subclass may be added in the future, supporting objects)

• resource
• objects

License: MIT

Examples of things this could be used for:

• https://blog.graphiq.com/500x-faster-caching-than-redis-memcache-apc-in-php-hhvm-dcd26e8447ad

Usage

require_once '/path/to/Builder.php';
use ShortVarExport\Builder;
echo Builder::build(2, Builder::MULTI_LINE), "\n\n";
echo Builder::build(["value", 42, 4 => [["newvalue"]], "key" => "othervalue"], Builder::MULTI_LINE), "\n";

Output

2

[
"value",
4 => [["newvalue"]],
"key" => "othervalue",
]

Testing

php BuilderTest.php