Kanbani data parsers for PHP

These scripts enable interop with Kanbani - a free task manager for Android. In particular, they are used in Kanbani Web Viewer - a simple Trello-like Kanbani board browser.

composer require pdapps/kanbani-data

Requirements

• PHP 5.6 or 7.x
• openssl (if working with encrypted profiles)

What's inside

Scripts are independent. You can include only those that you need.

sync.php - sync data manipulation

Provides set of classes that allow reading and writing (unserializing and serializing) data produced by the Kanbani when doing sync (using any transport such as local file or WebDAV).

If the openssl PHP module is available, you can manipulate encrypted sync data as well as plain.

// Creating a sync file from scratch:
$syncData = new Kanbani\SyncData;
$syncData->boards = [$board1, $board2, ...];
$syncData->serializeFile('foobar.kanbani');
// Or, encrypted:
$syncData->serializeFile('foobar.kanbani', "TheSecretString");

// Reading an existing sync file:
$syncData = new Kanbani\SyncData;
$syncData->unserializeFile('foobar.kanbani');
// Or, if encrypted:
$syncData->unserializeFile('foobar.kanbani', "TheSecretString", "sOmOzK...");
echo count($syncData->boards);

// Can also chain like so:
$syncData = (new Kanbani\SyncData($boards))
    ->serializeFile(...);

$syncData = (new Kanbani\SyncData)
    ->unserializeFile(...);

Under the hood, SyncData is using SyncFile - a class that doesn't know what exactly it is serializing, only that it is some string. You can use the two separately:

// Get plain text JSON:
// {"sync_version": 1, "client_version": 1, "boards": [...]}
echo json_encode($syncData);

// Get CSV (to read back CSV use Kanbani Web Viewer's import plugin):
// board;agEi...P4F7;1577836800000;"Welcome Board";
echo $syncData->serializeToCSV();

Assuming that $object is in the format described here:

// Creating a sync file from scratch:
$data = json_encode($object);
(new Kanbani\SyncFile)->serializeFile("foobar.kanbani", $data);

// Reading an existing sync file:
$sync = (new Kanbani\SyncFile)->unserializeFile("foobar.kanbani");
$object = json_decode($sync->data);

// Reading file info only (faster, doesn't parse the data):
$syncFile = (new Kanbani\SyncFile)->unserializeHeader(file_get_contents(...));
echo $syncFile->isEncrypted() ? "Encrypted data" : "Plain text";

Helper methods

SyncFile can generate Kanbani-compatible files names for encrypted boards:

$syncFile = new Kanbani\SyncFile;
$syncFile->secret = "TheSecretString";
$syncFile->boardID = "sOmOzK...";
echo $syncFile->encryptedFileName(), ".kanbani";

SyncData can serialize (export) data in several other formats (it can't import them, see Kanbani Web Viewer's import plugin for that):

$syncData->serializeToJSON();       // plain text JSON
$syncData->serializeToCSV();        // CSV format similar to Trello
$syncData->serializeToExcelCSV();   // CSV compatible with MS Excel

Command line usage

Call sync.php directly from the command line to unserialize and dump a file (useful for debugging):

php sync.php Board.kanbani [secret board-id]

qrcode.php - QR code data manipulation

Provides set of classes that represent Kanbani's sync profile data when encoded as a QR code for sharing with other devices. It identifies the transport, server location, encryption settings and so on.

Note: a QR code holds JSON data; these classes work on such data but they do not scan or generate QR code images - use libraries like phpqrcode for that.

Generating QR code data from scratch:

$qrCode = new Kanbani\QrCodeData;
$qrCode->title = "Generated sync profile";

$baseURL = "https://deep.secret/kanbani/";
$auth = new Kanbani\QrCodePassword("PDApps", "4Ever!");
$qrCode->transport = new Kanbani\QrCodeSFTP($baseURL, $auth);

$data = json_encode($qrCode);

// $data can now be encoded as an image:
require_once "phpqrcode.php";
QRcode::png($data);

Parsing QR code data:

$qrCode = new Kanbani\QrCodeData;
$qrCode->unserialize(json_decode($data));
echo $qrCode->title;
echo get_class($qrCode->transport);

Helper methods

Some QrCodeWebTransports have testConnection() method that returns null on success or array ["id", "msg"] (error identifier and human readable message) - useful for checking user input.

$dav = new QrCodeWebDAV("https://dav.user.pdapps.org", null /*no auth*/);
$error = $dav->testConnection();
if ($error) {
    echo "Problem '$error[0]': $error[1]";
} else {
    echo "Connection test OK!";
}