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The PhpToken class

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.

Intro

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

class PhpToken implements Stringable { }

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).

Phptoken

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Source: reference/tokenizer/phptoken.xml · from the official PHP manual (php/doc-en)