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\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 Diff class options
$differOptions = [
    // show how many neighbor lines
    // Differ::CONTEXT_ALL can be used to show 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, it will just gives up (especially for char-level diff)
    'lengthLimit' => 2000,
    // if truthy, when inputs are identical, the whole inputs will be rendered in the output
    'fullContextIfIdentical' => false,
];

// the renderer class options
$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,
    // the frontend HTML could use CSS "white-space: pre;" to visualize consecutive whitespaces
    // but if you want to visualize them in the backend with "&nbsp;", you can set this to true
    'spacesToNbsp' => false,
    // HTML renderer tab width (negative = do not convert into spaces)
    'tabSize' => 4,
    // this option is currently only for the Combined renderer.
    // it determines whether a replace-type block should be merged or not
    // depending on the content changed ratio, which values between 0 and 1.
    'mergeThreshold' => 0.8,
    // this option is currently only for the Unified and the Context renderers.
    // RendererConstant::CLI_COLOR_AUTO = colorize the output if possible (default)
    // RendererConstant::CLI_COLOR_ENABLE = force to colorize the output
    // RendererConstant::CLI_COLOR_DISABLE = force not to colorize the output
    'cliColorization' => RendererConstant::CLI_COLOR_AUTO,
    // this option is currently only for the Json renderer.
    // internally, ops (tags) are all int type but this is not good for human reading.
    // set this to "true" to convert them into string form before outputting.
    'outputTagAsString' => false,
    // this option is currently only for the Json renderer.
    // it controls how the output JSON is formatted.
    // see available options on https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php
    'jsonEncodeFlags' => \JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES | \JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE,
    // this option is currently effective when the "detailLevel" is "word"
    // characters listed in this array can be used to make diff segments into a whole
    // for example, making "<del>good</del>-<del>looking</del>" into "<del>good-looking</del>"
    // this should bring better readability but set this to empty array if you do not want it
    'wordGlues' => [' ', '-'],
    // change this value to a string as the returned diff if the two input strings are identical
    'resultForIdenticals' => null,
    // extra HTML classes added to the DOM of the diff container
    '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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