cafuego/phits

A class library that allows you to access FITS file headers in PHP.

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WELCOME

phits - a FITS reader for PHP

FITS is the standard astronomical data format endorsed by both NASA and the IAU., _(*2)

This class can read and parse header data from FITS files. I am not currently planning to add the ability to read and process the attached data as well., _(*3)

The FitsThumbnail class uses the Imagick PECL library to convert FITS image data into a thumbnail of a specified size and format. It will fail horribly if you do not have Imagick installed., _(*4)

USAGE

getHeaders();
  $naxis   = $fits->getNaxis(0);

  // Do stuff.
?>

persist(FALSE);

  // Create a 200x200 thumbnail.
  $thumb->createThumbnail(200, 200);

  // Get the generated thumbail file.
  $thumbnail = $thumb->getThumbnail();

  // Do stuff.
?>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This project is based on pre-existing open source FITS libraries and I have used both of them to help me write this parser:, _(*5)

• https://github.com/astrojs/fitsjs
• https://github.com/siravan/fits

Phits inherits the MIT license from these other projects., _(*6)

As opposed to the Go parser, Phits also handles CONTINUE headers for longer string comments., _(*7)

FITS?

See http://heasarc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/fits.html for more information., _(*8)