What are some practical uses of PHP tokenizer?

Question

What are practical and day-to-day usage examples of PHP Tokenizer ?

Has anyone used this?

Answer 1

A friend of mine has written Überloader (A brute-force autoloader for PHP5.) which uses this very technique when it indexes class files. The _check_file() method from it will be of particular interest to you.

Überloader is designed for legacy projects that have not planned or thought about their class naming conventions or file structures.

I use the class everyday in legacy projects that I am fixing up or renovating.