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PHP 8.4 Released
Once rector gets 8.4 rules out, this will be pretty awesome:
https://github.com/rectorphp/rector/issues/8701
https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser/commit/7b0384cdbe03431c4...
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- PHP Is the Best Choice for Long‑Term Business
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PHP-Parser: A Native PHP Parser for Parsing and Analyzing PHP Code
heh, I'll be straight that I'm sad it doesn't parse its own source in the tests ... or maybe it does <https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser/blob/v5.1.0/test/bootstr...>, who knows (joking but not joking)
- PHP-Parser: A PHP parser written in PHP
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Diff Speeding - Rector and sebastian/diff speed improvements through profiling
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.
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PHP Skeleton for Bison
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.
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Alternative for nette/tokenizer?
Maybe nikic/PHP-Parser is an alternative. If you only need to tokenizer part, PHP has an extension too.
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How PHP engine builds AST
nikic/PHP-Parser
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Parsing with PHP, Bison and re2c
Code parsing. Many linters and code builders use php-parser. It uses YACC (analog Bison) to build AST.
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nikic/PHP-Parser is an open source project licensed under BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of PHP Parser is PHP.
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