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

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.