Parse information of a PHP file using PHP?

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Are there any way for me to use PHP to parse information of a PHP file, something likes : what functions/classes it has, which functions are built-in/user-defined or how many variables are there....?

More useful than just the raw token stream is a parser class like pear.php.net/package/PHP_Parser (or even CodeSniffer) which deciphers defined functions/variables. — mario
– mario, Commented Mar 13, 2011 at 2:34

Andrew Moore · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-13 02:18:44Z

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You can use the function token_get_all() to parse PHP source.

$source = file_get_contents('my-file.php');
$tokens = token_get_all($source);

answered Mar 13, 2011 at 2:18

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Tom Gruner Over a year ago

There was also some discussion about this here: stackoverflow.com/questions/5068007/…

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