Create additional format transformations?

Question

Create additional format transformations?

mrandrewmills opened this issue 10 years ago · 3 comments

Can we export to XML? And CSV? What about SQL?

Answer 1 · 2014-12-09T03:26:11.000Z

The more I think about and research this particular issue, the more I think that the class itself should just extract the data from the fixed width text file and put it into a PHP array. I'm thinking that there should be a second class for transforming arrays into JSON, XML, CSV, etc. and that this would be a more generic class that could be included in different projects.

Answer 2 · 2014-12-13T13:00:11.000Z

Okay, so transforming the array into JSON is fairly trivial with the PHP json_encode function, and that could be easily included in the tutorial so people can do that even without resorting to including another class. Then people can use whatever class/library/utility (even home grown code) they prefer to handle the more exotic transformations.

Answer 3 · 2014-12-18T03:18:50.000Z

Extraneous format conversion methods have been removed.