README

This converts ASTs(Abstract Syntax Trees) from PHP-Parser to php-ast. It can be used as a PHP-only implementation of php-ast. It can alternatively be used as a best-effort parser for syntactically valid PHP code.

Also see https://github.com/TysonAndre/tolerant-php-parser-to-php-ast (in progress, may have better results)

Supported php-ast AST versions: 40, 45, 50

Current Status

No tests are failing

• Need to normalize namespaces (Mostly done)

Current Issues

• The test suite this is based off of covers common cases for Phan, but edge cases still remain. See #4
• See nikic/php-ast#78

Remaining work:

• Translate PhpParser exception to a \ParseError instance

Usage

Using it as a slow substitute for php-ast

• tests/ASTConverter/ConversionTest.php

Using it as an error-tolerant substitute for php-ast: (e.g. for use in IDEs)

• There are currently two modes: omitting errors and adding placeholders (e.g. __INCOMPLETE_VARIABLE__).
• Omitting errors only handles some common cases that come up while editing a file.
• Placeholders may change in the future.
• tests/ASTConverter/ErrorTolerantConversionTest.php
• If performance is an issue, cache previous results for a file's contents (in combination with the version used to generate the file ASTConversion::ASTCONVERTER_VERSION)

Running unit tests

To run unit tests, you must install nikic/php-ast. A version supporting AST versions 40 and/or 50 should be installed (~0.1.5 is preferred)

• Then run vendor/bin/phpunit

Possible Future Enhancements

• microsoft/tolerant-php-parser#113 See https://github.com/tysonandre/tolerant-php-parser-to-php-ast (The library to convert between AST formats is broken(not finished implementing) and inefficient, waiting for stable API for tolerant-php-parser)