noresources/ns-php-data

Data (de)serialization library

v3.1.2 2025-06-08 16:52 UTC

Requires

• php: >= 7.1
• noresources/mediatype: ^2.0
• noresources/reflection: ^1.0
• symfony/console: ^4.0 || ^5.0
• symfony/polyfill-mbstring: ^1.31

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: >= 7.0

Suggests

• ext-dom: To use Apple XML property list (de)serializer
• ext-json: To use JSON (de)serializer
• ext-yaml: To use YAML (de)serializer

Replaces

• noresources/ns-php-data: 3.0

MIT

• Renaud Guillard

• serialization

README

Data serialization library

Features

Serialize/Unserialize content to/from

• Ascii art
• CSV
• JSON
• INI
• Lua
• Plain text
• URL-encoded application/x-www-form-urlencoded
• XML (Apple property list)
• YAML

Installation

composer require noresources/data

Basic usage

use NoreSources\Data\Serialization\SerializationManager;

$serializer = SerializationManager::getInstance();
$data = $serializer->unserializeFromFile ('foo.json');
$serializer->serializeToFile ('bar.yaml', $data);

Specifying output format

<?php
use NoreSources\Data\Serialization\SerializationManager;
use NoreSources\MediaType\MediaTypeFactory;

$data = [
	'foo' => 'bar',
	'int' => 42,
	'list' => [
		1,
		2,
		3
	],
	'object' => [
		'firstName' => 'John',
		'lastName' => 'Doe'
	],
	'bool' => true,
	'null' => null
];

$luaMediaType = MediaTypeFactory::getInstance()->createFromString(
	'text/x-lua; mode=module');

$serializer = new SerializationManager();
$lua = $serializer->serializeData($data, $luaMediaType);
die($lua . PHP_EOL);