Chord

Chord’s parent is Beat.

Read chord informations

use PhpTabs\PhpTabs;

$song = new PhpTabs('my-song.gp5');

// Get a chord
$chord = $song->getTrack(0)
              ->getMeasure(0)
              ->getBeat(0)
              ->getChord();

echo sprintf("
Chord
-----

name: %s
first fret: %s
notes count: %s
strings count: %s
",

$chord->getName(),
$chord->getFirstFret(),
$chord->countNotes(),
$chord->countStrings()
);

It will ouput something like:

Chord
-----

name: A
first fret: 0
notes count: 0
strings count: 6

---

Write chord informations

$chord->setName('C');
$chord->setFirstFret(1);

---

Beat

You may handle its beat.

$beat = $chord->getBeat();

$chord->setBeat($beat);