Question

This is PHP code I have so far:

https://gist.github.com/2eeba2ff31ebecb526e2

This is the result:

https://gist.github.com/cf07fe90922ac3dfcd22

Now say I need to get information that is referenced in this table:

object(ttfTableDirectoryEntry)#6 (4) {
  ["tag"]=>
  string(4) "cmap"
  ["checksum"]=>
  int(2553734765)
  ["offset"]=>
  int(1556)
  ["length"]=>
  int(1190)
}

How do I do that?

In general, I need to parse info for every of these tables.

This is what you get if you simply try to parse the data from offset with length.

object(ttfTableDirectoryEntry)#12 (4) {
  ["tag"]=>
  string(4) "name"
  ["checksum"]=>
  int(3955157420)
  ["offset"]=>
  int(400)
  ["length"]=>
  int(1153)
}
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Answer 1

I tried to achieve this and went close to making it. However, at the end, I decided to use Python instead when parsing data. Anyway, if anyone decide that they want to go PHP way, here is what I have until this moment. It is one step close to getting glyph map. For a documentation on how to read the data, refer to http://developer.apple.com/fonts/ttrefman/RM06/Chap6.html.

<?php
$ttr    = new TrueTypeReader;
$ttr->open('font.otf');


class TrueTypeReader
{
    private $position   = 0;
    private $offset     = 0;

    private $file;

    public function open($file)
    {       
        $this->file         = file_get_contents($file);

        // http://developer.apple.com/fonts/ttrefman/RM06/Chap6.html
        // The offset subtable      
        $number_of_tables   = $this->getUint16(4);

        $this->tables       = array();

        for($i = 0; $i < $number_of_tables; $i++)
        {
            // http://developer.apple.com/fonts/ttrefman/RM06/Chap6.html
            // The table directory

            $table          = array();

            $tag            = $this->getTag(12 + $i * 16);

            $table          = array
            (
                'tag'       => $tag,
                'check_sum' => $this->getUint32(12 + $i * 16 + 4),
                'offset'    => $this->getUint32(12 + $i * 16 + 8),
                'length'    => $this->getUint32(12 + $i * 16 + 12),
            );

            if($tag == 'cmap')
            {
                $this->parseCmapTable($table);
            }

            $this->tables[] = $table;
        }
    }


    private function getTag($pt = FALSE)
    {
        if($pt === FALSE)
        {
            $pt = $this->position;

            $this->position += 4;
        }

        return substr($this->file, $pt, 4);
    }

    private function getUint32($pt = FALSE)
    {
        if($pt === FALSE)
        {
            $pt = $this->position;
            $this->position += 4;
        }

        $r = unpack("N", substr($this->file, $pt, 4) );

        return $r[1];
    }

    private function getUint16($pt = FALSE)
    {
        if ($pt === FALSE)
        {
            $pt = $this->position;
            $this->position += 2;
        }

        $r = unpack("n", substr($this->file, $pt, 2) );

        return $r[1];
    }

    private function parseCmapTable($table)
    {
        $this->position         = $table['offset'];

        // http://developer.apple.com/fonts/ttrefman/RM06/Chap6cmap.html
        // General table information

        $data   = array
        (
            'version'           => $this->getUint16(),
            'number_subtables'  => $this->getUint16(),
        );

        $sub_tables = array();

        for($i = 0; $i < $data['number_subtables']; $i++)
        {

            // http://developer.apple.com/fonts/ttrefman/RM06/Chap6cmap.html
            // The 'cmap' encoding subtables

            $sub_tables[]   = array
            (
                'platform_id'       => $this->getUint16(),
                'specific_id'       => $this->getUint16(),
                'offset'            => $this->getUint32(),
            );

        }

        // http://developer.apple.com/fonts/ttrefman/RM06/Chap6cmap.html
        // The 'cmap' formats

        $formats                = array();

        foreach($sub_tables as $t)
        {
            // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5322019/character-to-glyph-mapping-table/5322267#5322267

            $this->position = $table['offset'] + $t['offset'];

            $format = array
            (
                'format'                    => $this->getUint16(),
                'length'                    => $this->getUint16(),
                'language'                  => $this->getUint16(),
            );

            if($format['format'] == 4)
            {
                $format     += array
                (
                    'seg_count_X2'                  => $this->getUint16(),
                    'search_range'                  => $this->getUint16(),
                    'entry_selector'                => $this->getUint16(),
                    'range_shift'                   => $this->getUint16(),
                    'end_code[segCount]'            => $this->getUint16(),
                    'reserved_pad'                  => $this->getUint16(),
                    'start_code[segCount]'          => $this->getUint16(),
                    'id_delta[segCount]'            => $this->getUint16(),
                    'id_range_offset[segCount]'     => $this->getUint16(),
                    'glyph_index_array[variable]'   => $this->getUint16(),
                );

                $backup = $format;

                $format['seg_count_X2']     = $backup['seg_count_X2']*2;
                $format['search_range']     = 2 * (2 * floor(log($backup['seg_count_X2'], 2)));
                $format['entry_selector']   = log($backup['search_range']/2, 2);
                $format['range_shift']      = (2 * $backup['seg_count_X2']) - $backup['search_range'];
            }

            $formats[$t['offset']]  = $format;
        }       

        die(var_dump( $sub_tables, $formats ));



        die(var_dump( $this->getUint16(), $this->getUint16(), $this->getUint16(), $this->getUint16(), $this->getUint16() ));

        die(var_dump( $sub_tables[0] ));

        $cmap   = array
        (
            'format'            => $this->getUint16(),
            #'length'           => $this->getUint16(),
            #'language'         => $this->getUint16(),
        );

        die(var_dump( $cmap ));

        die(var_dump( $table, $data, $table, $cmap ));
    }

    private function parseNameTable($table)
    {
        // http://developer.apple.com/fonts/ttrefman/RM06/Chap6name.html
        // Name Table Format

        $data   = array
        (
            'format'            => $this->getUint16($table['offset']),
            'count'             => $this->getUint16($table['offset'] + 2), // $num_of_name_tables
            'string_offset'     => $this->getUint16($table['offset'] + 4),
        );

        $offset = $table['offset'] + $data['string_offset']; // $name_tables_offset

        $name_tables = array();

        for($i = 0; $i < $data['count']; $i ++)
        {       
            $this->position     = $table['offset'] + 6 + $i * 12;

            $d  = array
            (
                'platform_id'   => $this->getUint16(),
                'specific_id'   => $this->getUint16(),
                'lang_id'       => $this->getUint16(),
                'name_id'       => $this->getUint16(),
                'length'        => $this->getUint16(),
                'offset'        => $this->getUint16() + $offset,
            );

            $key                = "{$d['platform_id']}::{$d['specific_id']}::{$d['lang_id']}";

            if(isset($d['name_id']) && empty($name_tables[$key][$d['name_id']]))
            {
                $text = substr($this->file, $d['offset'], $d['length']);

                $name_tables[$key][$d['name_id']] = str_replace(chr(0), '', $text);
            }
        }

        die(var_dump( $name_tables ));
    }
}