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]

Sylvain Donnet <sd*****@ddo-org.com> wrote:

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.

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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Daniel Tryba

[Manuel Lemos]

Hello,

On 08/30/2004 07:10 PM, Sylvain Donnet wrote:

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.
Use the tokenizer extension:

http://www.php.net/tokenizer
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...).

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

http://smarty.php.net/
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[Sylvain Donnet]

Manuel Lemos wrote:

Hello,
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
On 08/30/2004 07:10 PM, Sylvain Donnet wrote:

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.

Use the tokenizer extension:

http://www.php.net/tokenizer

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...).

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

http://smarty.php.net/

[Ira Baxter]

"Sylvain Donnet" <sd*****@ddo-org.com> wrote in message
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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...).

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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Ira D. Baxter, Ph.D., CTO 512-250-1018
Semantic Designs, Inc. www.semdesigns.com