The PhpToken class

Introduction

(PHP 8)

This class provides an alternative to token_get_all(). While the function returns tokens either as a single-character string, or an array with a token ID, token text and line number, PhpToken::tokenize() normalizes all tokens into PhpToken objects, which makes code operating on tokens more memory efficient and readable.

Class synopsis

public getTokenName(): ?string

public is(int|string|array $kind): bool

public isIgnorable(): bool

public __toString(): string

public static tokenize(string $code, int $flags = 0): array

Properties

id

One of the T_* constants, or an ASCII codepoint representing a single-char token.

text

The textual content of the token.

line

The starting line number (1-based) of the token.

pos

The starting position (0-based) in the tokenized string (the number of bytes).

Table of Contents

• PhpToken::__construct — Returns a new PhpToken object
• PhpToken::getTokenName — Returns the name of the token.
• PhpToken::is — Tells whether the token is of given kind.
• PhpToken::isIgnorable — Tells whether the token would be ignored by the PHP parser.
• PhpToken::__toString — Returns the textual content of the token.
• PhpToken::tokenize — Splits given source into PHP tokens, represented by PhpToken objects.