Merge pull request #4 from mdurrant/develop

Feature/redesign

Author: mdurrant

README.md

@@ -4,42 +4,80 @@ PhpBinaryReader
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-The primary purpose of this binary reader is to accept a string of file contents and provide a familiar set of methods
-to read various data types. This is class is rough, early in development and no warranties are provided. Please see the 
-license file for usage guidelines.
+Why?
+---
+You probably wouldn't be here if you hadn't run into a scenario where you needed to leverage PHP to read a stream of
+binary data. The honest truth is PHP really stinks at this stuff, but as long as we're going to be using it we may as
+well do our best to make it as painless as possible.
 
-Contributing
+The purpose of this binary reader is to accept a string of file contents and provide a set of methods inspired by .NET
+to traverse it.
+
+Note on Endians
 ---
-Contributions must follow the PSR2 coding standards.
+The reader is designed to work on little endian machines, which is going to apply to most scenarios as all x86 and x86-64
+machines are little endian. If you have somehow found yourself on a big endian machine, you need to inform the class or
+you may not be able to properly read signed integers in the file you're parsing.
+```
+$fileData = file_get_contents('somefile.bin');
+$br = new BinaryReader($fileData);
+$br->setMachineByteOrder(Endian::ENDIAN_BIG);
+...
+```
 
 Example Usage
 ---
 ```
 $fileData = file_get_contents('somefile.bin');
-$br = new BinaryReader($fileData, 'little');
+$br = new BinaryReader($fileData, Endian::ENDIAN_LITTLE);
 $magic = $br->readUInt32();
 $offset = $br->readUInt16();
 $length = $br->readUInt16();
+...
 ```
 
 Methods
 ---
-**__construct($str, $endian)** a string must be provided to use this class, an endian is optional (big|little), it will default to big if not provided
+**__construct($str, $endian)** a string must be provided to use this class, an endian is optional (string [big|little], or use the constants in the Endian class), it will default to little if not provided.
+
+**readUInt8()** returns a single 8 bit byte as an unsigned integer
+
+**readInt8()** returns a single 8 bit byte as a nsigned integer
+
+**readUInt16()** returns a 16-bit short as an unsigned integer
+
+**readInt16()** returns a 16-bit short as signed integer
 
-**readUInt8()** will return a single 8 bit byte as an unsigned integer
+**readUInt32()** returns a 32-bit unsigned integer
 
-**readUInt16()** will return a 16-bit short as an unsigned integer
+**readInt32()** returns a 32-bit signed integer
 
-**readUInt32()** will return a 32-bit unsigned integer
+**readUBits($length)** returns a variable length of bits (unsigned)
 
-**readBits($count)** will return up to 32 bits, allows reading data at the bit level
+**readBits($length)** returns a variable length of bits (signed)
 
-**align($move)** will align the pointer back to 0 bits, it will move it to the next byte if $move = true
+**readString($length)** returns a variable length string
 
-**readString($len)** expects a length parameter, it will read the number of characters and return a string
+**readAlignedString($length)** aligns the pointer to 0 bits and returns a variable length string
 
-**isEof()** will return true if the pointer is on the last byte of the file
+**align()** aligns the pointer back to 0 bits
+
+**isEof()** returns true if the pointer is on the last byte of the file
+
+**getPosition()** returns the current byte position in the file
+
+**setPosition($position)** sets the current byte position
+
+**getCurrentBit()** returns the current bit position in the file
+
+**setCurrentBit($currentBit)** sets the current bit position
+
+Contributing
+---
+Contributions must follow the PSR2 coding standards and must not degrade 100% coverage.
 
 Acknowledgements
 ---
-Significant portions of the work is based on Graylin Kim's Python bit/byte reader in _sc2reader: https://github.com/GraylinKim/sc2reader
+Significant portions of the work is based on Graylin Kim's Python bit/byte reader in `sc2reader`_
+
+.. _sc2reader: https://github.com/GraylinKim/sc2reader