Format MySQL code inside PHP string

Question

Is there any program IDE or not that can format MySQL code inside PHP string e.g. I use PHPStorm IDE and it cannot do it.

It does that for PHP and MYSQL but not for MYS

Answer 1

You asked:

Is there any program IDE or not that can format MySQL code inside PHP string

with specifically this PHP string definition:

$request1 = "select * from tbl_admin where admin_id= {$_SESSION['admin_id']} and active= 1 order By admin_id Asc";

And the answer is no. There doesn't exist a well use-able settop on a PHP parser in IDEs or on the commandline that works PHP's token_get_all.

With token_get_all you should be able to first of all extract that part that makes sense in your case to be edited. Here with context:

<309:T_VARIABLE> "$request1" <371:T_WHITESPACE> " " "=" <371:T_WHITESPACE> " " """ <314:T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE> "select * from tbl_admin where admin_id= " <375:T_CURLY_OPEN> "{" <309:T_VARIABLE> "$_SESSION" "[" <315:T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING> "'admin_id'" "]" "}" <314:T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE> " and active= 1 order By admin_id Asc" """ ";"

As these tokens show, there is a lot of additional work going to extract that what you call string from it:

$request1 = "select * from tbl_admin where admin_id= {$_SESSION['admin_id']} and active= 1 order By admin_id Asc"

This need to be managed and identified in tokens:

<314:T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE> "select * from tbl_admin where admin_id= " <375:T_CURLY_OPEN> "{" <309:T_VARIABLE> "$_SESSION" "[" <315:T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING> "'admin_id'" "]" "}" <314:T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE> " and active= 1 order By admin_id Asc"

As this example shows, this is not true SQL. So you not only need to find a SQL parser (which exists in PHP, see Parsing sql query PHP), but you also need to make that SQL parser aware of PHP variable substitution like {$_SESSION['admin_id']} in your case. For you it is a variable, for an SQL parser this is just a freaky syntax soup if not an error.

Your small code example is a good one: It already shows that there is no information about the nature of the string that will be substituted. As this information is hidden, a SQL parser will never be able to deal with this string as something well-formed.

So to make my answer "No" more profound: Because no general tools on how to deal with multiple outcome on the higher languages level (the PHP string has multiple probably correct representations in SQL, only the author of the variable content will can tell which one is correct) that already exists, there is no general solution available.

You might want to just fire up some regular expressions on your codebase and blitzshit together an outcome you can feel happy with, and indeed the tools ehime lined-up are worth to consider.

But probably it's worth to invest the time and first extract the strings from the PHP token stream, reformat the string and then proceed outputting the result. That's something perl and regexes can't give you because they don't have the PHP tokenizer.