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mef\Stringifier defines an interface mef\StringifierInterface that describes a way to turn any PHP value (including objects, resources, arrays, etc) into a string. The purpose of this is primarily to assist in logging and debugging.

Examples

Standard stringifier

<?php
$stringifier = new \mef\Stringifier\Stringifier;

echo $stringifier->stringify(new \DateTime), PHP_EOL;
echo $stringifier->stringify(['a', 'b', 'c']), PHP_EOL;
echo $stringifier->stringify(['foo' => 'bar']), PHP_EOL;
echo $stringifier->stringify(new \ArrayIterator(['foo' => 'bar'])), PHP_EOL;

Sample Output:

2014-09-17 15:58:26
[a, b, c]
{foo: bar}
ArrayIterator<foo: bar>

Note that the actual output may vary as the implementation details are not guaranteed to be the same from version to version. Of course, it will always return a string that faithfully represents the value.

More complete examples are available in the examples directory.

Overview

The mef\StringifierInterface only describes one function:

<?php
namespace mef\Stringifier;

interface StringifierInterface
{
	/**
	 * Returns a string representation of the value.
	 *
	 * @param mixed $value
	 *
	 * @return string
	 */
	public function stringify($value);
}

Any conforming stringifier will always return a string, unless it throws an exception. There are no pre-defined exceptions in the mef\Stringifier namespace.

Stringifiers

• Stringifier - Good for most cases. Tries to return a reasonable string representation of any value.
• JsonStringifier - A thin wrapper over json_encode. Returns a JSON encoded representation of the value.
• VarDumpStringifier - Returns the results of a var_dump.
• PrintRStringifier - Returns the results of a print_r.

License

Copyright (C) 2014 Matthew Leverton

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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