fits-php/README.md
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# FitsPHP - A dumb FITS image library for PHP
FitsPHP (or `fits-php`) is a dumb and crappy "library" to somehow interact with the FITS image format used in astronomy.
The library tries to implement a reasonable subset of the [FITS standard](https://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_standard.html). Of course, it all depends on the definition of 'reasonable'...
It should allow for the image to be displayed in a browser or even a terminal (yeah, right...).
## Why
Why not? But seriously, this doesn't make any sense, you should never use it in any circumstance whatsoever!
## Usage
**NOTE: Not added to Packagist yet...**
Add the package with Composer:
```
composer require dumbastro/fits-php
```
then use classes from the `Dumbastro\FitsPhp` namespace.
### Examples
Retrieve the image blob for a given FITS file then do something with the bytes.
The method `ImageBlob::dataBytes` returns a `Generator`.
```php
<?php
declare(strict_types=1);
use Dumbastro\FitsPhp\Fits;
use Dumbastro\FitsPhp\ImageBlob;
$fits = new Fits('bubble_nebula.fit');
$blob = new ImageBlob($fits->header(), $fits->imageBlob);
foreach ($blob->dataBytes() as $byte) {
// Do something useful...
}
```
Read a specific keyword value from the FITS header. In this example, `BITPIX` is read which represents the bit depth (bits per pixel) of the image. The bitpix is also a property of the image blob, represented by a PHP `Enum`. Calling the `type()` method on the property returns a string with the following possible values (assuming the bitpix is valid in the first place):
|Bitpix value|Type string|Interpretation|
-------------|-----------|--------------|
| 8 | `int8` |Character or unsigned binary integer|
| 16 | `int16` |16 bit two's complement binary integer|
| 32 | `int32` |32 bit two's complement binary integer|
| 64 | `int64` |64 bit two's complement binary integer|
| -32 |`float32`|IEEE single-precision floating point|
| -64 |`float64`|IEEE double-precision floating point|
```php
<?php
declare(strict_types=1);
use Dumbastro\FitsPhp\Fits;
use Dumbastro\FitsPhp\FitsHeader;
use Dumbastro\FitsPhp\ImageBlob;
$fits = new Fits('bubble_nebula.fit'); // Bit-depth is 32-bit unsigned (for example)
$fitsHeader = new FitsHeader($fits->headerBlock);
$bitpix = (int) $fitsHeader->keyword('BITPIX')->value;
// Or, with the image blob
$blob = new ImageBlob($header, $fits->imageBlob);
echo $blob->bitpix->type(); //int32
```
## TODO
- [x] Separate the main data table (actual image data) from the header (partly done? Who knows...)
- [x] Read keywords from the FITS header (COMMENT keywords could be buggy)
- [ ] History keywords?
- [ ] FITS extensions?
- [ ] Actually display the image in the standard output
- [ ] Save the image to PNG and/or JPG
- [ ] Manipulate the bits using basic processing algorithms??