1. Go to this page and download the library: Download jfcherng/php-diff library. Choose the download type require.
2. Extract the ZIP file and open the index.php.
3. Add this code to the index.php.
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');
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jfcherng / php-diff example snippets
fcherng\Diff\Differ;
use Jfcherng\Diff\DiffHelper;
use Jfcherng\Diff\Factory\RendererFactory;
use Jfcherng\Diff\Options\DifferOptions;
use Jfcherng\Diff\Options\RendererOptions;
use Jfcherng\Diff\Renderer\RendererConstant;
$oldFile = __DIR__ . '/example/old_file.txt';
$newFile = __DIR__ . '/example/new_file.txt';
$old = 'This is the old string.';
$new = 'And this is the new one.';
// renderer class name:
// Text renderers: Context, JsonText, Unified
// HTML renderers: Combined, Inline, JsonHtml, SideBySide
$rendererName = 'Unified';
// the Differ options
$differOptions = new DifferOptions(
// show how many neighbor lines; Differ::CONTEXT_ALL shows the whole file
context: 3,
// ignore case difference
ignoreCase: false,
// ignore line ending difference
ignoreLineEnding: false,
// ignore whitespace difference
ignoreWhitespace: false,
// if the input sequence is too long, give up (especially for char-level diff)
lengthLimit: 2000,
// when inputs are identical, render the whole content rather than an empty result
fullContextIfIdentical: false,
);
// the renderer options
$rendererOptions = new RendererOptions(
// how detailed the rendered HTML in-line diff is? (none, line, word, char)
detailLevel: 'line',
// renderer language: eng, cht, chs, jpn, ...
// or an array which has the same keys with a language file
// check the "Custom Language" section in the readme for more advanced usage
language: 'eng',
// show line numbers in HTML renderers
lineNumbers: true,
// show a separator between different diff hunks in HTML renderers
separateBlock: true,
// show the (table) header
showHeader: true,
// render spaces/tabs as <span class="ch sp"> </span> tags (visualised via CSS)
spaceToHtmlTag: false,
// convert consecutive spaces to in HTML output
spacesToNbsp: false,
// HTML renderer tab width (negative = do not convert into spaces)
tabSize: 4,
// Combined renderer: merge replace-blocks whose changed ratio is at or below this threshold (0–1)
mergeThreshold: 0.8,
// Unified/Context renderers CLI colorization:
// RendererConstant::CLI_COLOR_AUTO = colorize if possible (default)
// RendererConstant::CLI_COLOR_ENABLE = force colorize
// RendererConstant::CLI_COLOR_DISABLE = force no color
cliColorization: RendererConstant::CLI_COLOR_AUTO,
// JSON renderer: emit op tags as human-readable strings instead of ints
outputTagAsString: false,
// JSON renderer: flags passed to json_encode()
// see https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php
jsonEncodeFlags: \JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES | \JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE,
// word-level diff: adjacent segments joined by these characters are merged into one
// e.g. "<del>good</del>-<del>looking</del>" → "<del>good-looking</del>"
wordGlues: ['-', ' '],
// return this string verbatim when the two inputs are identical; null = renderer default
resultForIdenticals: null,
// extra CSS classes added to the diff container <div> in HTML renderers
wrapperClasses: ['diff-wrapper'],
);
// one-line simply compare two files
$result = DiffHelper::calculateFiles($oldFile, $newFile, $rendererName, $differOptions, $rendererOptions);
// one-line simply compare two strings
$result = DiffHelper::calculate($old, $new, $rendererName, $differOptions, $rendererOptions);
// or even shorter if you are happy with default options
$result = DiffHelper::calculate($old, $new, $rendererName);
// custom usage
$differ = new Differ(explode("\n", $old), explode("\n", $new), $differOptions);
$renderer = RendererFactory::make($rendererName, $rendererOptions); // or your own renderer object
$result = $renderer->render($differ);
// use the JSON result to render in HTML
$jsonResult = DiffHelper::calculate($old, $new, 'Json'); // may store the JSON result in your database
$htmlRenderer = RendererFactory::make('Inline', $rendererOptions);
$result = $htmlRenderer->renderArray(json_decode($jsonResult, true));
$rendererOptions = ['detailLevel' => 'line'];
$rendererOptions = ['detailLevel' => 'line'];
$rendererOptions = ['detailLevel' => 'word'];
$rendererOptions = [
'language' => [
// use English as the base language
'eng',
// your custom overrides
[
// use "Diff" as the new value of the "differences" key
'differences' => 'Diff',
],
// maybe more overrides if you somehow need them...
],
]
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