tysonandre/var_representation

var_representation() : readable alternative to var_export() in PHP

var_representation's Issues

Set up a polyfill with token_get_all() of var_export()

It should be possible to post-process the var_export output to normalize strings the same way, replace old arrays, etc.

Still a work in progress: https://github.com/TysonAndre/var_representation_polyfill

Change infinite recursion detection, check for infinite recursion on object before `Z_OBJPROP*`

Z_OBJPROP* is a macro that calls get_properties to build property tables. The var_export implementation may or may not change to avoid calling get_properties - still in review. If changes to var_export get merged, change it

Add an option to avoid escaping control characters

E.g. so that json_encode(var_representation($value, VAR_REPRESENTATION_UNESCAPED)); has a smaller but still readable representation

Idea: `var_representation_decode(string, array|bool $allowed_classes = [])` - similar to eval() but constraining what can be done

• Support php 8.1 enums
• Support (object)[] for stdClass
• Support __set_state for classes in $allowed_classes
• Support [] and array() arrays with keys/values
• Support decoding the output of var_export
• Reject "$var"
• Reject expression types not found in var_export/var_representation (e.g. ['a'][0])

Reasons:

• eval/unserialize can have unexpected side effects and should not be used on untrusted inputs
• json_decode can't support mixes of associative arrays and objects (or empty arrays and empty objects)
• Support binary data, unlike json_decode

VAR_REPRESENTATION_ESCAPE_NON_ASCII flag

For escaping \x80-\xff bytes in string literals, e.g. for developers to see visually if strings are really entirely ascii

Prebuilt Windows DLLs available

Hi,

I have initiated a CI to build some PHP extensions for Windows.

This extension is now available here: https://phpext.phptools.online/extension/php/var_representation-260