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token_get_all

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token_get_allSplit given source into PHP tokens

Description

token_get_all(string $code, int $flags = 0): array

token_get_all() parses the given code string into PHP language tokens using the Zend engine's lexical scanner.

For a list of parser tokens, see List of Parser Tokens, or use token_name() to translate a token value into its string representation.

Parameters

code

The PHP source to parse.

flags

Valid flags:

  • TOKEN_PARSE - Recognises the ability to use reserved words in specific contexts.

Return Values

An array of token identifiers. Each individual token identifier is either a single character (i.e.: ;, ., >, !, etc...), or a three element array containing the token index in element 0, the string content of the original token in element 1 and the line number in element 2.

Examples

Example #1 token_get_all() example

<?php
$tokens
= token_get_all('<?php echo; ?>');

foreach (
$tokens as $token) {
if (
is_array($token)) {
echo
"Line {$token[2]}: ", token_name($token[0]), " ('{$token[1]}')", PHP_EOL;
}
}
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Line 1: T_OPEN_TAG ('<?php ')
Line 1: T_ECHO ('echo')
Line 1: T_WHITESPACE (' ')
Line 1: T_CLOSE_TAG ('?>')

Example #2 token_get_all() incorrect usage example

<?php
$tokens
= token_get_all('/* comment */');

foreach (
$tokens as $token) {
if (
is_array($token)) {
echo
"Line {$token[2]}: ", token_name($token[0]), " ('{$token[1]}')", PHP_EOL;
}
}
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Line 1: T_INLINE_HTML ('/* comment */')
Note in the previous example that the string is parsed as T_INLINE_HTML rather than the expected T_COMMENT. This is because no open tag was used in the code provided. This would be equivalent to putting a comment outside of the PHP tags in a normal file.

Example #3 token_get_all() on a class using a reserved word example

<?php

$source
= <<<'code'
<?php

class A
{
const PUBLIC = 1;
}
code;

$tokens = token_get_all($source, TOKEN_PARSE);

foreach (
$tokens as $token) {
if (
is_array($token)) {
echo
token_name($token[0]) , PHP_EOL;
}
}
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

T_OPEN_TAG
T_WHITESPACE
T_CLASS
T_WHITESPACE
T_STRING
T_CONST
T_WHITESPACE
T_STRING
T_LNUMBER
Without the TOKEN_PARSE flag, the penultimate token (T_STRING) would have been T_PUBLIC.

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User Contributed Notes 8 notes

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Ivan Ustanin
5 years ago
As a caution: when using TOKEN_PARSE with an invalid php-file, one can get an error like this:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '__construct' (T_STRING), expecting function (T_FUNCTION) or const (T_CONST) in on line 15
Notice the missing filename as this function accepts a string, not a filename and thus has no idea of the latter.
However an exception would be more appreciated.
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Theriault
7 years ago
The T_OPEN_TAG token will include the first trailing newline (\r, \n, or \r\n), tab (\t), or space. Any additional space after this token will be in a T_WHITESPACE token.

The T_CLOSE_TAG token will include the first trailing newline (\r, \n, or \r\n; as described here http://php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.instruction-separation.php). Any additional space after this token will be in a T_INLINE_HTML token.
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Dennis Robinson from basnetworks dot net
14 years ago
I wanted to use the tokenizer functions to count source lines of code, including counting comments. Attempting to do this with regular expressions does not work well because of situations where /* appears in a string, or other situations. The token_get_all() function makes this task easy by detecting all the comments properly. However, it does not tokenize newline characters. I wrote the below set of functions to also tokenize newline characters as T_NEW_LINE.

<?php

define
('T_NEW_LINE', -1);

function
token_get_all_nl($source)
{
$new_tokens = array();

// Get the tokens
$tokens = token_get_all($source);

// Split newlines into their own tokens
foreach ($tokens as $token)
{
$token_name = is_array($token) ? $token[0] : null;
$token_data = is_array($token) ? $token[1] : $token;

// Do not split encapsed strings or multiline comments
if ($token_name == T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING || substr($token_data, 0, 2) == '/*')
{
$new_tokens[] = array($token_name, $token_data);
continue;
}

// Split the data up by newlines
$split_data = preg_split('#(\r\n|\n)#', $token_data, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE | PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);

foreach (
$split_data as $data)
{
if (
$data == "\r\n" || $data == "\n")
{
// This is a new line token
$new_tokens[] = array(T_NEW_LINE, $data);
}
else
{
// Add the token under the original token name
$new_tokens[] = is_array($token) ? array($token_name, $data) : $data;
}
}
}

return
$new_tokens;
}

function
token_name_nl($token)
{
if (
$token === T_NEW_LINE)
{
return
'T_NEW_LINE';
}

return
token_name($token);
}

?>

Example usage:

<?php

$tokens
= token_get_all_nl(file_get_contents('somecode.php'));

foreach (
$tokens as $token)
{
if (
is_array($token))
{
echo (
token_name_nl($token[0]) . ': "' . $token[1] . '"<br />');
}
else
{
echo (
'"' . $token . '"<br />');
}
}

?>

I'm sure you can figure out how to count the lines of code, and lines of comments with these functions. This was a huge improvement on my previous attempt at counting lines of code with regular expressions. I hope this helps someone, as many of the user contributed examples on this website have helped me in the past.
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gomodo at free dot fr
14 years ago
Yes, some problems (On WAMP, PHP 5.3.0 ) with get_token_all()

1 : bug line numbers
Since PHP 5.2.2 token_get_all() should return Line numbers in element 2..
.. but for instance (5.3.0 on WAMP), it work perfectly only with PHP code (not HMTL miwed), but if you have some T_INLINE_HTML detected by token_get_all() , sometimes you find wrongs line numbers (return next line)... :(

2: bug warning message can impact loops
Warning with php code uncompleted (ex : php code line by line) :
for example if a comment tag is not closed token_get_all() can block loops on this warning :
Warning: Unterminated comment starting line

This problem seem not occur in CLI mod (php command line), but only in web mod.

Waiting more stability, used token_get_all() only on PHP code (not HMTL miwed) :
First extract entirely PHP code (with open et close php tag),
Second use token_get_all() on the pure PHP code.

3 : Why there not function to extract PHP code (to extract HTML, we have Tidy..)?

Waiting, I used a function :

The code at end this post :
http://www.developpez.net/forums/d786381/php/langage/
fonctions/analyser-fichier-php-token_get_all/

This function not support :
- Old notation : "<? ?>" and "<% %>"
- heredoc syntax
- nowdoc syntax (since PHP 5.3.0)
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bart
6 years ago
Not all tokens are returned as an array. The rule appears to be that if a token is not variable, but instead it is one particular constant string, it is returned as a string instead. You don't get a line number. This is the case for braces( "{", "}"), parentheses ("(", ")"), brackets ("[", "]"), comma (","), semi-colon (";"), and a whole slew of operator signs ("!", "=", "+", "*", "/", ".", "+=", ...).
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kevin at metalaxe dot com
15 years ago
Rogier, thanks for that fix. This bug still exists in php 5.2.5. I did notice though that it is possible for a notice to pop up from your code. Changing this line:

$temp[] = $tokens[0][2];

To read this:

$temp[] = isset($tokens[0][2])?$tokens[0][2]:'unknown';

fixes this notice.
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rogier
16 years ago
Complementary note to code below:
Note that only the FIRST 2 (or 3, if needed) array elements will be updated.

Since I only encountered incorrect results on the FIRST occurence of T_OPEN_TAG, I wrote this quick fix.
Any other following T_OPEN_TAG are, on my testing system (Apache 2.0.52, PHP 5.0.3), parsed correctly.

So, This function assumes only a possibly incorrect first T_OPEN_TAG.
Also, this function assumes the very first element (and ONLY the first element) of the token array to be the possibly incorrect token.
This effectively translates to the first character of the tokenized source to be the start of a php script opening tag '<', followed by either 'php' OR '%' (ASP_style)
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