Php Parser Laravel Package

nikic/php-parser

Parse PHP code into an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) for static analysis, manipulation, and code generation. Supports PHP 5.x to 8.4, handles errors gracefully, and preserves formatting during AST-to-code conversion. Easily traverse, modify, and convert ASTs back to PHP, with JSON serialization support...

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Walking the AST
- Node visitors
- Modifying the AST from a visitor
- Short-circuiting traversals
- Interleaved visitors
- Simple node finding API
- Parent and sibling references
Name resolution
- Name resolver options
- Name resolution context
Pretty printing
- Converting AST back to PHP code
- Customizing formatting
- Formatting-preserving code transformations
AST builders
- Fluent builders for AST nodes
Lexer
- Emulation
- Tokens, positions and attributes
Error handling
- Column information for errors
- Error recovery (parsing of syntactically incorrect code)
Constant expression evaluation
- Evaluating constant/property/etc initializers
- Handling errors and unsupported expressions
JSON representation
- JSON encoding and decoding of ASTs
Performance
- Disabling Xdebug
- Reusing objects
- Garbage collection impact
Frequently asked questions
- Parent and sibling references

Php Parser Laravel Package

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