Bencodex reader/writer for PHP

This package implements Bencodex serialization format which extends Bencoding. Complianet with Bencodex 1.2.

php > echo Bencodex\encode(['foo' => 123, 'bar' => [true, false]]);
du3:barltfeu3:fooi123ee
php > var_dump(Bencodex\decode('du3:barltfeu3:fooi123ee'));
object(stdClass)#4 (2) {
  ["bar"]=>
  array(2) {
    [0]=>
    bool(true)
    [1]=>
    bool(false)
  }
  ["foo"]=>
  int(123)
}

Requirements

• PHP 5.4 or later
• iconv extension (--with-iconv)

Type correspondences

PHP	Bencodex
Null	Null
Boolean	Boolean
Integer	Integer
Double1	Integer (truncated)
Numeric string2	Integer ≥ PHP_INT_MAX
String which can be decoded as Unicode	Text2
String otherwise	Binary2
List-like array3	List
Map-like array1	Dictionary
Object	Dictionary

Usage

• \Bencodex\encode(mixed $value): string: Encodes a PHP $value into Bencodex data.
• \Bencodex\decode(string $bencodex): mixed: Decodes Bencodex data into a PHP value.

The above APIs are merely façade, and optional parameters are omitted. See the complete API docs as well.

Footnotes

1. One-way types only available for encoding. ↩ ↩²

2. One-way types only available for decoding. ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. Determined by array_is_list() function. ↩