A Laravel 4 Formatter Package based on the work done by @dberry37388 with FuelPHP's Formatter class.

This package will help you to easily convert between various formats such as XML, JSON, CSV, etc...

Begin by installing this package through Composer. Edit your project's composer.json file to require SoapBox/laravel-formatter.

"require": {
	"soapbox/laravel-formatter": "dev-master"
}

Next, update Composer from the Terminal:

composer update

Once this operation completes, the final step is to add the service provider. Open app/config/app.php, and add a new item to the providers array.

'SoapBox\Formatter\FormatterServiceProvider'

The best way to learn how to use Formatter is to look through the code, where you can familiarize yourself with all of the available methods.

###Calling Formatter Formatter::make($data_to_convert, 'type of data')->to_the_format_you_want();

• Json
• Serialized Array
• XML
• CSV

• Json
• Serializaed Array
• XML
• CSV
• PHP Array
• PHP Export
• YAML

$json_string = '{"foo":"bar","baz":"qux"}';
$result = Formatter::make($json_string, 'json')->to_array();

if ( empty(Formatter::$errors) ) {
	//show the results
	print_r($result);
} else {
	// Show the errors
	print_r(Formatter::$errors);
	return;
}

// Returns
Array
(
    [foo] => bar
    [baz] => qux
)