NEON Functions
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NEON is a human-friendly data serialization language. It is used in Nette for configuration files. [api:Nette\Neon\Neon] is a static class for working with NEON.

Get to know [NEON format|format] and [try it out |https://ne-on.org].

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The following examples use these aliases:

```php
use Nette\Neon\Neon;
```


Installation
------------

Download and install the package using [Composer|best-practices:composer]:

```shell
composer require nette/neon
```

You can check for syntax errors in `*.neon` files using the `neon-lint` console command:

```shell
vendor/bin/neon-lint <path>
```


encode(mixed $value, bool $blockMode=false, string $indentation="\t"): string .[method]
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Returns `$value` converted to NEON. As the parameter `$blockMode` you can pass true, which will create multiline output. The parameter `$indentation` specifies the characters used for indentation (default is tab).

```php
Neon::encode($value); // Returns $value converted to NEON
Neon::encode($value, true); // Returns $value converted to multiline NEON
```

Method `encode()` throws `Nette\Neon\Exception` on error.

```php
try {
	$neon = Neon::encode($value);
} catch (Nette\Neon\Exception $e) {
	// Exception handling
}
```


decode(string $neon): mixed .[method]
-------------------------------------

Converts given NEON to PHP value.

Returns scalars, arrays, [date|format#dates] as DateTimeImmutable objects, and [entities|format#Entities] as [api:Nette\Neon\Entity] objects.

```php
Neon::decode('hello: world'); // Returns an array ['hello' => 'world']
```

Method `decode()` throws `Nette\Neon\Exception` on error.

```php
try {
	$value = Neon::decode($neon);
} catch (Nette\Neon\Exception $e) {
	// Exception handling
}
```


decodeFile(string $file): mixed .[method]
-----------------------------------------

Converts the contents of the file from NEON to PHP and removes any BOM.

```php
Neon::decodeFile('config.neon');
```

Method `decodeFile()` throws `Nette\Neon\Exception` on error.


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