adaptive/php-text-difference

A comprehensive library for generating differences between two hashable objects (strings or arrays). Fork of a fork to add namespaces and psr-4 autoloading

v1.1.0 2021-12-04 08:17 UTC

BSD-3-Clause

• Adaptive Media

• php
• difference
• text compare

README

Introduction

A comprehensive library for generating differences between two hashable objects (strings or arrays). Generated differences can be rendered in all of the standard formats including:

• Unified
• Context
• Inline HTML
• Side by Side HTML

The logic behind the core of the diff engine (ie, the sequence matcher) is primarily based on the Python difflib package. The reason for doing so is primarily because of its high degree of accuracy.

Install

Via Composer

{
    "require": {
        "adaptive/php-text-difference": "^1.1"
    }
}

Example Use

A quick usage example can be found in the example/ directory and under example.php. Simple usage example:

<?php
$options = array(
    //'ignoreWhitespace' => true,
    //'ignoreCase' => true,
);
$a = explode("\n", file_get_contents($some_file_path));
$b = explode("\n", file_get_contents($some_other_file_path);

$diff = new Adaptive\Diff\Diff($a, $b, $options);
$renderer = new Adaptive\Diff\Renderer\Html\SideBySide;
echo $diff->Render($renderer);
?>

License (BSD License)

Copyright (c) 2009 Chris Boulton [e-mail] All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
• Neither the name of the Chris Boulton nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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