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researchgate/libris
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An RIS parser. RIS is a format for reference metadata. A fork of technosophos/LibRIS.

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LibRIS: An RIS parser for PHP
=============================

[](#libris-an-ris-parser-for-php)

- Author: Matt Butcher , 2010-02-06
- License: An MIT-like license (COPYING-MIT.txt)

This library provides basic marshaling and unmarshaling support for the RIS format.

RIS is used to encode metadata about references. The normative reference for the format can be found here:

[http://www.refman.com/support/risformat\_intro.asp](http://www.refman.com/support/risformat_intro.asp)

Installation
============

[](#installation)

```
composer require researchgate/libris
```

Using LibRIS
============

[](#using-libris)

General usage for this class is simple:

- The LibRIS class is used to parse RIS.
- The RISWriter class is used for writing RIS data into a string.

Here's an example (from test/simple\_test.php):

```