This yocLibrary enables your project to encode and decode Property List files in PHP.
composer require yocto/yoclib-propertylist
use YOCLIB\PropertyList\PropertyList;
$object = ['string_data',true,false];
$plist = new PropertyList;
$plist->setObject($object);
$xml = $plist->serialize(PropertyList::FORMAT_XML);use YOCLIB\PropertyList\PropertyList;
$xml = '<plist xlmns="https://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd" version="1.0"><array><string>string_data</string><true/><false/></array></plist>';
$plist = new PropertyList;
$plist->deserialize(PropertyList::FORMAT_XML,$xml);
$object = $plist->getObject();A Property List comes in one of the following formats:
| Format | Supported in this library | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ASCII | (The original, legacy format developed by NeXT for NeXTStep and later OPENSTEP) | |
| GNUstep ASCII | The NeXTStep/OPENSTEP ASCII format, but extended by GNU for GNUstep | |
| GNUstep Binary | ❌ | A binary variant of the property list developed by GNU for GNUstep |
| XML | ✅ | Introduced in Apple's Mac OS X 10.0; currently version 1.0 |
| Binary | ❌ | Introduced in Apple's MAC OS X 10.2; currently version 1.0 |
| JSON | ✅ | Introduced in Apple's MAC OS X 10.7 |
Note: At the moment, the implementation of the ASCII formats in this library should not be trusted. It doesn't understand comments, and it has some white-space detection hardcoded, so it is possible that it fails on a valid ASCII Property List.