Parse from files¶
There are 2 ways to parse a file.
PhpTabs¶
The easiest way is to instanciate a PhpTabs with a filename as first argument.
use PhpTabs\PhpTabs;
$filename = 'my-file.gp5';
$song = new PhpTabs($filename);
echo $song->getName();
It supports Guitar Pro 3, 4 and 5, MIDI, JSON and PHP serialized files.
The file format is recognized by the file extension (gp3, gp4, gp5, mid, midi, json, ser).
IOFactory¶
If you need more control, IOFactory is preferred.
After a read operation, a PhpTabs containing the entire song is
returned.
use PhpTabs\IOFactory;
$filename = 'my-file.gp5';
$song = IOFactory::fromFile($filename);
echo $song->getName();
If the file extension is not standard, a parser can be specified as the second parameter to force a file format.
use PhpTabs\IOFactory;
$filename = 'my-file.dat';
// The file is PHP serialized
$song = IOFactory::fromFile($filename, 'ser');
echo $song->getName();
IOFactory offers some other shortcuts to load from a specified parser.
use PhpTabs\IOFactory;
// Try to read a JSON file
$tab = IOFactory::fromJsonFile('mytabs.json');
// Try to read a serialized file
$tab = IOFactory::fromSerializedFile('mytabs.dat');