09-utilities.md

Utilities

Binary Utility

The IP value objects store their internal state as a binary string, which is not easy for humans to understand. The Darsyn\IP\Util\Binary class is a collection of static helper methods for dealing with such binary strings.

From Hexadecimal

@throws \InvalidArgumentException

\Darsyn\IP\Util\Binary::fromHex(string $hex): string

Because there are two hexadecimal characters per byte, the input string must be of a length that is a multiple of 2.

<?php
use Darsyn\IP\Util\Binary;

$hexString = '48656c6c6f21';
Binary::fromHex($hexString); // string("Hello!")

To Hexadecimal

@throws \InvalidArgumentException

\Darsyn\IP\Util\Binary::toHex(string $hex): string

<?php
use Darsyn\IP\Util\Binary;

$binaryString = 'Hello!';
Binary::toHex($binaryString); // string("48656c6c6f21")

From Human-readable Binary

@throws \InvalidArgumentException

\Darsyn\IP\Util\Binary::fromHumanReadable(string $asciiBinarySequence): string

Because there are 8 bits per bytes, the input string must be of a length that is a multiple of 8.

<?php
use Darsyn\IP\Util\Binary;

$asciiBinary = '010010000110010101101100011011000110111100100001';
Binary::fromHumanReadable($asciiBinary); // string("Hello!")

To Human-readable

@throws \InvalidArgumentException

\Darsyn\IP\Util\Binary::toHumanReadable(string $binary): string

<?php
use Darsyn\IP\Util\Binary;

$binaryString = 'Hello!';
Binary::toHumanReadable($asciiBinary); // string("010010000110010101101100011011000110111100100001")

Multibyte String Utility

On some PHP installations, the Multibyte String extension can overload PHP's native string functions which, because we are working with arbitrary binary content, can incorrectly guess an encoding when attempting to transform this data (IP addresses have no text encoding).

Because of this, the Darsyn\IP\Util\MbString class is a collection of static helper equivalents for PHP's core string functions which detect if the mbstring extension is installed and appropriately call the correct function, specifying the 8bit text encoding (treat each byte as individual character) if required.

Static Helper Method	Replaces the PHP function...
MbString::getLength()	str_len()
MbString::subString()	substr()
MbString::padString()	str_pad()