# ShapeReader 
A PHP library to parse ESRI Shape files.

Based on the great work of Juan Carlos Gonzalez Ulloa and David Granqvist

A copy of the original work is available at http://www.phpclasses.org/package/1741-PHP-Read-vectorial-data-from-geographic-shape-files.html

`This library is meant to read vectorial information from shape files in the SHP format.`
`The SHP file format is an open standard for storing vectorial information that is used to distribute geographical information.`
`Plenty of commercial and open source applications are able to read from it.`

## Requirements 
PHP version should be > 5.3.2

To open the DBF related database you need the dbase extension available as PECL package.

    pecl install dbase
    echo "extension=dbase.so" > /etc/php5/conf.d/dbase.ini

## Usage 
See examples folder for details.

    $shpReader = new ShapeReader("./somewhere.shp");

    $i = 0;
    while ($record = $shpReader->getNext() and $i < 5) {

        //Dump SHP information
        $shp_data = $record->getData();
        var_dump($shp_data);

        //Dump DBF information
        $dbf_data = $record->getDbfData();
        var_dump($dbf_data);

        $i++;
    }

## Changelog 
2013-08-24 - Base refactor, added namespace support, composer and test cases

## License 
GNU General Public License
http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-2.0