v1.0.0

Initial Stable Release

TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation) is a compact data format for reducing token consumption when sending structured data to Large Language Models.

Installation

composer require helgesverre/toon

Example

use HelgeSverre\Toon\Toon;

echo Toon::encode([
    'items' => [
        ['sku' => 'A1', 'qty' => 2, 'price' => 9.99],
        ['sku' => 'B2', 'qty' => 1, 'price' => 14.5]
    ]
]);

Output:

items[2]{sku,qty,price}:
  A1,2,9.99
  B2,1,14.5

Features

• Support for primitive types (strings, numbers, booleans, null)
• Objects with key-value pairs
• Arrays in multiple formats (primitive, tabular, nested)
• DateTime objects in ISO 8601 format
• Intelligent string quoting
• Configurable indentation and delimiters
• 133 tests, 181 assertions

Documentation

• README
• CHANGELOG

Full changelog: https://github.com/HelgeSverre/toon-php/commits/v1.0.0