Parsing and Printing PHP Code

Question

Preferably I\'d like a solution which allows me to parse PHP from PHP, but any solution is welcome. (As an example of what I\'m looking for, Ruby has the - amongst othe

Answer 1

You are looking for the evil of eval() I believe.

http://php.net/manual/es/function.eval.php

Answer 2

Edit: this answer was written before @pepjin edited their question and changed the requirements. See comments for context.

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eval() to execute PHP code from within PHP.

To analyse PHP code for your own micro language etc you can use the PHP Tokenizer. List of parser tokens: http://www.php.net/manual/en/tokens.php

Answer 3

A tokenizer is not the same as a parser. The tokenizer just produces tokens and not in a tree format. For those who are actually looking to produce an AST for PHP similar to what ruby_parser does for Ruby, use the PHP-Parser project (https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser).

The PHP-Parser project also comes with a pretty printer that turns your AST back to PHP.