PHP Parser VS PHP CS Fixer

Interesting. One of the reasons I stopped considering Rector is because of how memory, CPU, and time intensive it is for a non-trivial project. Instead I've been using Nikita's PHP Parser directly and getting much better results even though it isn't multi-threaded out of the box.

nikic/PHP-Parser uses a Bison equivalent for PHP parsing. See the grammar file https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser/blob/4.x/grammar/php7.y.

Maybe nikic/PHP-Parser is an alternative. If you only need to tokenizer part, PHP has an extension too.

nikic/PHP-Parser

Code parsing. Many linters and code builders use php-parser. It uses YACC (analog Bison) to build AST.

The PR in PHP-Parser is already on the way ↓ https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser/pull/834

I see there is the https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser

It's good idea. But something strange. Php was made as language which embedded to HTML. And how will it work without open and close tags? Instead of parsing and replacing source code as string you might use parser e.g https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser

I wish there was a more universal format for parsers, but I just don't think there enough people who know their stuff.

Take PHP, a language that a lot of people use: the tree-sitter-php extension doesn't support features added in 2019, let alone features added towards the end of 2020.

If you want an up-to-date PHP parser, there's really only one open-source parser[0] that's accurate enough to be used on PHP codebases old and new, and it's written in PHP. Then if you want to parse in a robust fashion you have to adopt a number of hacks to get everything working.

I hadn't encountered LSIF before – can GitHub be configured to use those maps?

[0] https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser

PHP-CS-Fixer automatically fixes PHP coding standard issues, maintaining a clean codebase and adhering to coding standards. It can be integrated into the development workflow to ensure all code complies with defined standards.

friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer

While you're at it, also include code-style checkers like phpcs, phpmd and/or php-cs-fixer

I run two tools for this - php-cs-fixer on PHP 5.6 and the built-in syntax checker(php -l).

You can use this library to help automate this: https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/PHP-CS-Fixer 😊

To be bit a elaborate and for a proper updated installtion process, here is what I did: I used the [latest versio]n(https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/PHP-CS-Fixer/releases/tag/v3.10.0) of php cs fixer then entered the command that followed to install php-cs-fixer.

PHP CS Fixer is able to generate a GitLab formatted report which GitLab can use to show you any new violations in the code or even if code style violations have been tackled.

Laravel Pint is an opinionated PHP code style fixer for minimalists. Pint is built on top of PHP-CS-Fixer and makes it simple to ensure that your code style stays clean and consistent. Pint is a new addition to the Laravel framework.