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Introduction
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This project is a PHP 5.2 to PHP 7.0 parser **written in PHP itself**.
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This project is a PHP 5.2 to PHP 7.2 parser **written in PHP itself**.
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What is this for?
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token stream generated by [`token_get_all`][2]. The token stream is much more low level than
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the AST and thus has different applications: It allows to also analyze the exact formatting of
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a file. On the other hand the token stream is much harder to deal with for more complex analysis.
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For example an AST abstracts away the fact that in PHP variables can be written as `$foo`, but also
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For example, an AST abstracts away the fact that, in PHP, variables can be written as `$foo`, but also
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as `$$bar`, `${'foobar'}` or even `${!${''}=barfoo()}`. You don't have to worry about recognizing
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all the different syntaxes from a stream of tokens.
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What can it parse?
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The parser supports parsing PHP 5.2-5.6 and PHP 7.
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The parser supports parsing PHP 5.2-7.2.
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As the parser is based on the tokens returned by `token_get_all` (which is only able to lex the PHP
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version it runs on), additionally a wrapper for emulating new tokens from 5.5, 5.6 and 7.0 is
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provided. This allows to parse PHP 7.0 source code running on PHP 5.4, for example. This emulation
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is somewhat hacky and not perfect, but it should work well on any sane code.
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version it runs on), additionally a wrapper for emulating tokens from newer versions is provided.
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This allows to parse PHP 7.2 source code running on PHP 5.5, for example. This emulation is somewhat
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hacky and not perfect, but it should work well on any sane code.
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What output does it produce?
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The parser produces an [Abstract Syntax Tree][1] (AST) also known as a node tree. How this looks like
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The parser produces an [Abstract Syntax Tree][1] (AST) also known as a node tree. How this looks
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can best be seen in an example. The program `<?php echo 'Hi', 'World';` will give you a node tree
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roughly looking like this:
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* Support for pretty printing, which is the act of converting an AST into PHP code. Please note
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that "pretty printing" does not imply that the output is especially pretty. It's just how it's
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called ;)
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* Support for serializing and unserializing the node tree to XML
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* Support for serializing and unserializing the node tree to JSON
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* Support for dumping the node tree in a human readable form (see the section above for an
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example of how the output looks like)
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* Infrastructure for traversing and changing the AST (node traverser and node visitors)
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