About PHP-front

Features

PHP-front is a package you can use to generate, analyse, or transform PHP code. It contains a handcrafted SDF grammar for PHP, a handcrafted pretty printer, an extensive library for reflecting over PHP code, and support for evaluation of PHP.

Some of the unique features of PHP-front are:

• Modular and extensible syntax definition for PHP for versions 4 and 5
• Option to preserve comments
• Pretty printer
• Automatic inclusion of files
• PHP-specific, common traversals
• Reflection support
• Conversion of abstract syntax tree to XML possible

Tools

Tools that are included in the package are:

• parse-php
• parse-php4, parse-php5
• pp-php
• pp-php4, pp-php5
• eval-php

Project Info

Contributors:

• Eric Bouwers
• Martin Bravenboer

Feedback and bug reports:

• Armijn Hemel
• Tim Hemel
• Eelco Visser

Sponsors:

• Google Summer of Code 2006

License:

• PHP-Front is LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) software.

Projects that use PHP-Front

• PHP-sat
• PHP-tools
• StringBorg