PHP-Parser now requires PHP 5.4 or newer to run. It is however still possible to parse PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3 source code, while running on a newer version.
Parser instances should now be created through the ParserFactory. Old direct instantiation code
will not work, because the parser class was renamed.
Old:
use PhpParser\Parser, PhpParser\Lexer;
$parser = new Parser(new Lexer\Emulative);
New:
use PhpParser\ParserFactory;
$parser = (new ParserFactory)->create(ParserFactory::PREFER_PHP7);
The first argument to ParserFactory determines how different PHP versions are handled. The
possible values are:
ParserFactory::PREFER_PHP7: Try to parse code as PHP 7. If this fails, try to parse it as PHP 5.ParserFactory::PREFER_PHP5: Try to parse code as PHP 5. If this fails, try to parse it as PHP 7.ParserFactory::ONLY_PHP7: Parse code as PHP 7.ParserFactory::ONLY_PHP5: Parse code as PHP 5.For most practical purposes the difference between PREFER_PHP7 and PREFER_PHP5 is mainly whether
a scalar type hint like string will be stored as 'string' (PHP 7) or as new Name('string')
(PHP 5).
To use a custom lexer, pass it as the second argument to the create() method:
use PhpParser\ParserFactory;
$lexer = new MyLexer;
$parser = (new ParserFactory)->create(ParserFactory::PREFER_PHP7, $lexer);
PhpParser\Parser classPhpParser\Parser is now an interface, which is implemented by Parser\Php5, Parser\Php7 and
Parser\Multiple. Parser tokens are now defined in Parser\Tokens. If you use the ParserFactory
described above to create your parser instance, these changes should have no further impact on you.
All legacy aliases for classes have been removed. This includes the old non-namespaced PHPParser_
classes, as well as the classes that had to be renamed for PHP 7 support.
The set(), setFirst(), append() and prepend() methods of the Node\Name class have been
deprecated. Instead Name::concat() and Name->slice() should be used.
NodeTraverser no longer clones nodes by default. If you want to restore the old behavior,
pass true to the constructor.getSubNodeNames() method.Scalar node constructors was removed. This means that something like
new LNumber() should be replaced by new LNumber(0).Scalar\EncapsStringPart nodes, while
previously raw strings were used. This affects the parts child of Scalar\Encaps and
Expr\ShellExec.