This library phpstan/phpdoc-parser
represents PHPDocs with an AST (Abstract Syntax Tree). It supports parsing and modifying PHPDocs.
For the complete list of supported PHPDoc features check out PHPStan documentation. PHPStan is the main (but not the only) user of this library.
This parser also supports parsing Doctrine Annotations. The AST nodes live in the PHPStanPhpDocParserAstPhpDocDoctrine namespace.
composer require phpstan/phpdoc-parser
<?php
require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
use PHPStanPhpDocParserAstPhpDocParamTagValueNode;
use PHPStanPhpDocParserAstPhpDocPhpDocNode;
use PHPStanPhpDocParserAstTypeIdentifierTypeNode;
use PHPStanPhpDocParserLexerLexer;
use PHPStanPhpDocParserParserConfig;
use PHPStanPhpDocParserParserConstExprParser;
use PHPStanPhpDocParserParserPhpDocParser;
use PHPStanPhpDocParserParserTokenIterator;
use PHPStanPhpDocParserParserTypeParser;
// basic setup
$config = new ParserConfig(usedAttributes: []);
$lexer = new Lexer($config);
$constExprParser = new ConstExprParser($config);
$typeParser = new TypeParser($config, $constExprParser);
$phpDocParser = new PhpDocParser($config, $typeParser, $constExprParser);
// parsing and reading a PHPDoc string
$tokens = new TokenIterator($lexer->tokenize('/** @param Lorem $a */'));
$phpDocNode = $phpDocParser->parse($tokens); // PhpDocNode
$paramTags = $phpDocNode->getParamTagValues(); // ParamTagValueNode[]
echo $paramTags[0]->parameterName; // '$a'
echo $paramTags[0]->type; // IdentifierTypeNode - 'Lorem'
This component can be used to modify the AST and print it again as close as possible to the original.
It's heavily inspired by format-preserving printer component in nikic/PHP-Parser.
<?php
require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
use PHPStanPhpDocParserAstNodeTraverser;
use PHPStanPhpDocParserAstNodeVisitorCloningVisitor;
use PHPStanPhpDocParserAstPhpDocPhpDocNode;
use PHPStanPhpDocParserAstTypeIdentifierTypeNode;
use PHPStanPhpDocParserLexerLexer;
use PHPStanPhpDocParserParserConfig;
use PHPStanPhpDocParserParserConstExprParser;
use PHPStanPhpDocParserParserPhpDocParser;
use PHPStanPhpDocParserParserTokenIterator;
use PHPStanPhpDocParserParserTypeParser;
use PHPStanPhpDocParserPrinterPrinter;
// basic setup with enabled required lexer attributes
$config = new ParserConfig(usedAttributes: ['lines' => true, 'indexes' => true]);
$lexer = new Lexer($config);
$constExprParser = new ConstExprParser($config);
$typeParser = new TypeParser($config, $constExprParser);
$phpDocParser = new PhpDocParser($config, $typeParser, $constExprParser);
$tokens = new TokenIterator($lexer->tokenize('/** @param Lorem $a */'));
$phpDocNode = $phpDocParser->parse($tokens); // PhpDocNode
$cloningTraverser = new NodeTraverser([new CloningVisitor()]);
/** @var PhpDocNode $newPhpDocNode */
[$newPhpDocNode] = $cloningTraverser->traverse([$phpDocNode]);
// change something in $newPhpDocNode
$newPhpDocNode->getParamTagValues()[0]->type = new IdentifierTypeNode('Ipsum');
// print changed PHPDoc
$printer = new Printer();
$newPhpDoc = $printer->printFormatPreserving($newPhpDocNode, $phpDocNode, $tokens);
echo $newPhpDoc; // '/** @param Ipsum $a */'
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Initially you need to run composer install
, or composer update
in case you aren't working in a folder which was built before.
Afterwards you can either run the whole build including linting and coding standards using
make
or run only tests using
make tests