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Installation

Requirements​

  • PHP 8.1 or higher
  • Composer

Install via Composer​

Install the package using Composer:

composer require byjg/convert

Verify Installation​

After installation, you can verify the package is installed correctly:

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use ByJG\Convert\ToUTF8;
use ByJG\Convert\FromUTF8;

// Test conversion
echo ToUTF8::fromHtmlEntities('&aacute;'); // Should output: á
echo FromUTF8::removeAccent('João'); // Should output: Joao

Autoloading​

The package uses PSR-4 autoloading. Once installed via Composer, all classes are automatically available:

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

// Classes are ready to use
$result = \ByJG\Convert\ToUTF8::fromHtmlEntities($text);

If you cannot use Composer, you can manually download the source files from the GitHub repository and include them in your project. However, this approach requires you to manually handle autoloading.