PHP code example of jfcherng / php-diff

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 &nbsp; 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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