PHP extension wrapping amzn/ion-c. See the Amazon ION specification.

BSD-2-Clause; see spdx.org.

• PHP-8.1
  • ext/date (standard)
  • ext/spl (standard)

• amzn/ion-c (bundled as git submodule)

phpize
./configure # --with-php-config=<path/to/php-config>
make # -j$(nproc)
sudo make install # INSTALL=install

pecl install ion

Watch out for PECL replicates and pharext packages attached to releases.

docker build -t php-ion
docker run --rm php-ion -r 'echo ion\serialize(ion\Symbol\PHP::asTable());'

See ion.stub.php.

Due to private internal state of ion-c's readers and writers, instances of the following PHP classes cannot be cloned:

• ion\Reader\Reader
• ion\Writer\Writer
• ion\Serializer\PHP
• ion\Unserializer\PHP