PHP Grammar

This document is for the further development of the PHP Grammar.

Status

• Language Support: Php 8.2
• Parses:
  • Classes, traits, interfaces, namespaces
  • methods, functions, anonymous functions
  • class propreties, class consts, method/function properties
  • docblocks, comments
  • return types, property types
• Does NOT parse:
  • expressions, for loops, method calls
  • enums

Documentation

• Features Available - Overview of which features are implemented, tested, and passing.
• Architecture Description

Overview

You most likely will work on Operations.php or Words.php to add any new features. If you define or modify any directives, then you may want to add handlers in Handlers.php.

To define new operations, add a symbol to the operations array in get_operations. It will look like '&&'=>'and'. Then define a method op_and()

1. Define an operation handler like: public function op_my_new_symbol($lexer, $ast, $xpn)
2. Add the symbol to get_operations(): '&%'=>'my_new_symbol'
3. Fill out your operation handler

To define new words, either:

• define a word handler: public function wd_enum($lexer, $xpn, $ast)
• or add a case to unhandled_wd(), like else if ($ast->type == 'trait' && !isset($ast->name))

To create a new handler, definable in the directives:

• public function handleMyNewDirective($lexer, $ast, $token, $directive)
• Then, In a directive write 'this:handleMyNewDirective'

For writing directives, look at the CoreDirectives.php file and the README.

Code

• PhpGrammar.php - Base class, implementing the lexer's callback methods, and useing the directive & handler traits.
• Directives
  • CoreDirectives.php
  • Words.php
• Handlers
  • Handlers.php - Defines methods callable by directives. Enables Operations & Words as simplified handlers.
  • Operations.php - Handles all the symbols
  • Words.php - handles keywords & other non-string alphanumeric chars, like property names.

Testing

• PHP directive test:
  • phptest -test ShowMePhpFeatures for a summary of the directive tests
    • see test/output/PhpFeatures.md or view in the terminal
  • phptest -test Directives -run Directive.TestName
    • add -stop_loop 50 to stop after the 50th loop
    • see test/src/Php to create new directive test
    • see test/Tester.php - see the $sample_thingies at the top for an example. And see runDirectiveTests(), though idr how it works.

TODO

• parse expressions
• Document it better