PicoPHPParser

PicoPHPParser is a lightweight PHP 7.1 parser, which is (hand-)written in rust.
It already supports the most common constructs of the PHP-language.

A possible usage for example might be to provide better error messages than the original PHP-parser.
A very early stage of this is shown below:

Testing it

To ensure that the most common constructs of the PHP-language work, we have 2 testing stages:

1. AST tests:

   These kind of tests ensure that the information in the AST is correct
   and also check the correctness of meta-information such as line numbers.
   There are quite a few of these tests, but they are not as easy to write.

   These types of tests are run during a simple cargo test
   which is the typical test-command for the rust ecosystem.

2. Project tests:

   This stage ensures most common PHP-projects parse successfully:

   1. We ensure the tests pass at a clean state of the project.
   2. The parser & pretty printer parse the files & rewrite them
   3. The tests are run a second time to ensure they still work properly.

Current Test Targets

• Laravel (Framework)
• Slim