rodrigore/laravel-formatter

Port of FuelPHP's Formatter Class

Formatter Bundle

Laravel Bundle ported from the FuelPHP Format class, that helps you easily convert between various formats such as XML, JSON, CSV, etc...

Installation

Using artisan to install the bundle

php artisan bundle:install formatter

Or you can clone the bundle straight from github. Run the following command inside your bundles folder:

git clone [email protected]:rodrigore/laravel-formatter.git formatter

Add the Following to your application/bundles.php file:

'formatter' => array('auto' => true) // you can leave out the auto => true

That's it, Formatter should now be installed and ready to go!

Usage

The best way to learn how to use Formatter is to look through the code, where you can familiarize yourself with all of the available methods.

###Calling Formatter

Formatter::make($data_to_convert, 'type of data')->to_the_format_you_want();

Available Formats to Convert From

• Json
• Serialized Array
• XML
• CSV

Available Formates to Convert To

• Json
• Serializaed Array
• XML
• CSV
• PHP Array
• PHP Export
• YAML

$json_string = '{"foo":"bar","baz":"qux"}';
print_r(Formatter::make($json_string, 'json')->to_array());

// Returns
Array
(
    [foo] => bar
    [baz] => qux
)

Handling errors from csv

To check if an error was ocurred when you use the method from_csv, you can use the array call errors.

// Post use of Formatter::make($file, 'csv')
if ( ! empty(Formatter::$errors) ) {
    // Show the errors
    print_r(Formatter::$errors);
}

The exception were replaced and added to the array of errors. Also, if the CSV file contains a row with more o less data than the headings this errors are store in this array.

Spanish Folder

The es Folder was added, with the two messages from the exception and the news errors.

ToDo

• Check if the replaced of Exception to messages are ok.
• Add more validation to the csv file.
• Add more error messages to the other methods.