PHPinnacle Buffer

PHPinnacle Buffer is a simple tool for operating binary data in PHP. Mostly it simply wraps PHP pack/unpack functions.

Install

Via Composer

$ composer require phpinnacle/buffer

Basic Usage

<?php

use PHPinnacle\Buffer\ByteBuffer;

// AMQP protocol header
$buffer = new ByteBuffer;
$buffer
    ->append('AMQP')
    ->appendUint8(0)
    ->appendUint8(0)
    ->appendUint8(9)
    ->appendUint8(1)
;

Testing

$ composer test

Benchmarks

$ composer bench

Some results with pure PHP realisation:

Benchmark	Best (μs)	Mean (μs)	Mode (μs)	Worst (μs)
appendIntegers	11.605	12.115	12.047	12.888
appendFloats	10.464	10.913	10.786	17.943
appendString	8.857	41.021	20.611	362.174
consume	48.916	50.721	50.399	61.542
read	26.617	27.665	27.500	31.744

And results with enabled extension:

Benchmark	Best (μs)	Mean (μs)	Mode (μs)	Worst (μs)
appendIntegers	2.522	2.657	2.625	3.031
appendFloats	1.987	2.136	2.095	3.307
appendString	3.692	3.854	3.806	5.695
consume	13.701	14.654	14.454	17.977
read	5.128	5.425	5.313	6.625

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING and CONDUCT for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

• PHPinnacle
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.