Preparse/preprocess PHP file ?

[Sylvain Donnet]

Hi,

My question is probably entirely described in the subject... I need to
preprocess a PHP file before it enters the PHP parser. My goal is to
change some non-PHP parts of text into PHP orders. I see in PHP doc an
output_handler to postprocess the output. And I see that there is no
input_handler.

Does anybody have a clue, a solution ? I am also looking for a solution
outside PHP, in some Apache modules (for instance mod_transform, but I
am not sure...).

TIA

Sylvain

[Daniel Tryba]

Re: Preparse/preprocess PHP file ?

Sylvain Donnet <sdonnet@ddo-org.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> My question is probably entirely described in the subject... I need to
> preprocess a PHP file before it enters the PHP parser. My goal is to
> change some non-PHP parts of text into PHP orders. I see in PHP doc an
> output_handler to postprocess the output. And I see that there is no
> input_handler.[/color]

What are you trying to do that can't be handled from within PHP? Is this
per request or only once? Maybe at intervals (sou you can schedule it).

BTW a quick and dirty way to do this within PHP is to rad the file into
a string, modify it and than eval() it...

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[Manuel Lemos]

Re: Preparse/preprocess PHP file ?

Hello,

On 08/30/2004 07:10 PM, Sylvain Donnet wrote:[color=blue]
> My question is probably entirely described in the subject... I need to
> preprocess a PHP file before it enters the PHP parser. My goal is to
> change some non-PHP parts of text into PHP orders. I see in PHP doc an
> output_handler to postprocess the output. And I see that there is no
> input_handler.[/color]

Use the tokenizer extension:

http://www.php.net/tokenizer

[color=blue]
> Does anybody have a clue, a solution ? I am also looking for a solution
> outside PHP, in some Apache modules (for instance mod_transform, but I
> am not sure...).[/color]

If you are looking for a templating solution, try Smarty:

http://smarty.php.net/

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[Sylvain Donnet]

Re: Preparse/preprocess PHP file ?

Manuel Lemos wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello,
>[/color]
I already have found smarty and its template logics. I didn't know about
tokenizer. Both are interesting, but I think I need batch processes to
parse my PHP files. I am going to explain my goals by an example :

I want to allow some HTML writers to write HTML files (in fact, PHP
files, but not mandatory) and to include into them some markers, for
instance : <phpoutput>.. .</phpoutput>, and when theses pages are
rendered, theses markers are changed by PHP code : <?php echo .... ?>,
BEFORE or EXACTLY WHEN theses pages entered the parser.

Sylvain
[color=blue]
> On 08/30/2004 07:10 PM, Sylvain Donnet wrote:
>[color=green]
>> My question is probably entirely described in the subject... I need to
>> preprocess a PHP file before it enters the PHP parser. My goal is to
>> change some non-PHP parts of text into PHP orders. I see in PHP doc an
>> output_handler to postprocess the output. And I see that there is no
>> input_handler.[/color]
>
>
> Use the tokenizer extension:
>
> http://www.php.net/tokenizer
>[color=green]
>> Does anybody have a clue, a solution ? I am also looking for a
>> solution outside PHP, in some Apache modules (for instance
>> mod_transform, but I am not sure...).[/color]
>
>
> If you are looking for a templating solution, try Smarty:
>
> http://smarty.php.net/
>
>[/color]

[Ira Baxter]

Re: Preparse/preprocess PHP file ?


"Sylvain Donnet" <sdonnet@ddo-org.com> wrote in message
news:4133a5c9$0 $4376$626a14ce@ news.free.fr...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> My question is probably entirely described in the subject... I need to
> preprocess a PHP file before it enters the PHP parser. My goal is to
> change some non-PHP parts of text into PHP orders. I see in PHP doc an
> output_handler to postprocess the output. And I see that there is no
> input_handler.
>
> Does anybody have a clue, a solution ? I am also looking for a solution
> outside PHP, in some Apache modules (for instance mod_transform, but I
> am not sure...).[/color]

Might be overkill for your problem, but the DMS Software Reengineering
toolkit can parse full PHP4 and PHP5, and carry out arbitrary
transformations .
See http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Produ...MSToolkit.html.


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