I need to extract some static data from PHP files in ruby. I’ve looked around but I couldn’t find any practical tools.
Does anyone know of a Ruby lib that would enable me to get the AST from a PHP source file?
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I need to extract some static data from PHP files in ruby. I’ve looked around but I couldn’t find any practical tools.
Does anyone know of a Ruby lib that would enable me to get the AST from a PHP source file?
Since you have php on your server, you could use PHP-Parser to parse your php files, then output the parsed result (in an easy to read format such as json) for ruby to then read and use.
Although if you can get away with using a regex solution (eg if you just need to grab some constant variable values), it would probably be okay to do that. It is hard to know depending on how complex your input php files are and how much data you need to extract.