What is a good parser generator for php?

Question

I need to parse a small \'mini language\' which users can type on my site. I was wondering what the counterparts of lex and jacc or antlr are for the world of php.

Answer 1

I've ported Jison, a Bison clone in javascript, to php. The results are a killer parser, able to handle very simple and very complex lexing/parsing. It is now part of Jison, but there are a few updates in my fork - https://github.com/robertleeplummerjr/jison . The files are here - https://github.com/robertleeplummerjr/jison/tree/master/ports/php

See the readme in that page, you create a javascript and php parser at the same time that are capable of doing the same or different things. COOL!