Serializer
Library for (de-)serializing data of any complexity (supports JSON, and XML) (by schmittjoh)
Spout
Read and write spreadsheet files (CSV, XLSX and ODS), in a fast and scalable way (by box)
| Serializer | Spout | |
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| 9 | 8 | |
| 2,302 | 4,116 | |
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| 7.9 | 6.1 | |
| about 2 months ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Serializer
Posts with mentions or reviews of Serializer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-20.
- Data-Mapper: A package for fast mapping of strong-typed objects
- brick/json-mapper: map JSON data to strongly typed PHP DTOs
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Design Decisions: Why use final classes
Making a class "final" is always a bad decision IMO. You would never know how will other people use your library. For example, we used JMSSerializerBundle and wanted to extend DateHandler to make it not to throw exceptions if a date string is invalid. But the class is final. So we had to just copy-paste it :(
- Symfony serializer is tedious
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Array -> Entity
Or this popular alternative: https://jmsyst.com/libs/serializer
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PHP libraries and tools
JMS Serializer: This library allows you to (de-)serialize data of any complexity. Currently, it supports XML and JSON.
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Yet another Data-Transfer-Object package
Only took a very brief look, but it looks nice. I like that the DTO class isn't required to extend anything, and that it seems to be for real DTOs used for actual transfer of data between systems - not 'local dtos'. It feels like this might be more comparable to something like schmittjoh/serializer rather than spatie/data-transfer-object.
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PHP foreach loop to XML
When it's time to create the PDF, convert the object structure to an XML using an already existing serializer (like JMS or symfony serializer) or do this by hand.
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Is there a better way to connect to an API?
One frequently used serializer is JMS Serializer which allows you to convert JSON or XML to objects (or the other way around if needed). You can then use the objects in your application.
Spout
Posts with mentions or reviews of Spout.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-28.
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How to read a csv file in PHP?
"This project has been archived and is no longer maintained. No bug fix and no additional features will be added. You won't be able to submit new issues or pull requests, and no additional features will be added" https://github.com/box/spout
- Import data from excel file to laravel
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Best Excel creation lib for PHP
We were testing PHP Spreadsheet and Spout (https://github.com/box/spout). We chose Spout because of its low memory footprint. It is using streams so it is much lighter than PHP Spreadsheet, although it is missing quite a bit of features that PHP Spreadsheet has.
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Creating multi-worksheet Excel files with Simple Excel
The Simple Excel package uses the box/spout package under the hood. In the readme it states that you can get to the underlying writer using ->getWriter().
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PHP libraries and tools
box/spout: Read and write spreadsheet files (CSV, XLSX and ODS), in a fast and scalable way
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What's the best practice in modifying/inserting values in specific cells of an existing excel file?
If you don't have a lot of formatting requirements beyond just the placement of the data in the correct fields, I really enjoy Box/Spout (https://opensource.box.com/spout/), and they have a way to install it without composer.
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Packing for importing/exporting csv files
I've also had good experiences with https://github.com/box/spout
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How to test CSV in Drupal without losing your mind
to add to this, this library is really good when wanting to parse CSV files https://github.com/box/spout
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Serializer and Spout you can also consider the following projects:
Fractal - Output complex, flexible, AJAX/RESTful data structures.
PhpSpreadsheet - A pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files
JsonMapper - Map nested JSON structures onto PHP classes
PHPExcel
data-transfer-object - Data transfer objects with batteries included
fast-excel - 🦉 Fast Excel import/export for Laravel
Ardent - A Collections library for PHP.
local-php-security-checker - PHP security vulnerabilities checker
Arrayy - 🗃 Array manipulation library for PHP, called Arrayy!
WordPress Packagist - WordPress Packagist — manage your plugins with Composer
CRUDlex - CRUDlex is an easy to use CRUD generator for Symfony 4 and Silex 2 which is great for auto generated admin pages
GrumPHP - A PHP code-quality tool