token_get_all

Description

token_get_all() parses the given source string into PHP language tokens using the Zend engine's lexical scanner.

For a list of parser tokens, see Appendix Q, or use token_name() to translate a token value into its string representation.

Parameters

Return Values

An array of token identifiers. Each individual token identifier is either a single character (i.e.: ;, ., >, !, etc...), or a two element array containing the token index in element 0, and the string content of the original token in element 1.

Examples

Example 1. token_get_all() examples <?php $tokens = token_get_all('<?php echo; ?>'); /* => array(                                                   array(T_OPEN_TAG, '<?php'),                                                   array(T_ECHO, 'echo'),                                                   ';',                                                   array(T_CLOSE_TAG, '?>') ); */ /* Note in the following example that the string is parsed as T_INLINE_HTML    rather than the otherwise expected T_COMMENT (T_ML_COMMENT in PHP <5).    This is because no open/close tags were used in the "code" provided.    This would be equivalent to putting a comment outside of <?php ?> tags in a normal file. */ $tokens = token_get_all('/* comment */'); // => array(array(T_INLINE_HTML, '/* comment */')); ?>