[Geany] Recognising PHP code (and perhaps others)

[Lex Trotman]

On 14 December 2010 21:38, Murray Collingwood
<murray at focus-computing.com.au> wrote:
> Hi Lex
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> One simple solution would be to drop the trailing bracket from the regex.
> Do you think this would be an acceptable change?

Unfortunately then the parser would not be able to identify the
argument list for one line declarations (notice that the  \\(.*\\) is
in () as a capture group) and that would mean no arglist, or worse an
incorrect arglist, for those declarations that work right at the
moment.

Maybe the regex could be changed to \\([^)]\\)? making the ) optional
and if its not there counting all the rest of the line as the
arguments.  Its not pretty, but at least the function should be
recognised.

Anyone else's thoughts?

Cheers
Lex

PS I don't know much PHP, but I should note that if a ) can occur
anywhere in the declaration then no regex is correct.

>
> Cheers
> Murray
>
>
> On 14 December 2010 18:34, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 14 December 2010 18:23, Murray Collingwood
>> <murray at focus-computing.com.au> wrote:
>> > Hello (first time on this list)
>> >
>> > Just a question, maybe something I can hack, maybe something somebody
>> > else
>> > needs to hack?
>> >
>> > I have php code that looks like this:
>> >
>> >      function puctstatus($puctid) {
>> >         ...
>> >      }
>> >
>> > The 'Symbols' list in the sidebar then lists for me the function name
>> > and
>> > all is good.
>> >
>> > However if my code is like this:
>> >
>> >       function puctstatus($puctid,
>> >                                   $category,
>> >                                   $flags) {
>> >          .....
>> >       }
>> >
>> > Then the function is not recognised and does not appear in the symbols
>> > list.
>> >
>> > Is there a file somewhere full of regex type codes that I can edit to
>> > modify
>> > this or is it all hardcoded in a program somewhere?
>>
>> Yes there is a regex, but its hard coded.
>>
>> This is it, where ALPHA and ALNUM are the ranges you would expect
>>
>> "^[ \t]*[(public|protected|private|static|final)[ \t]*]*[
>> \t]*function[ \t]+&?[ \t]*([" ALPHA "_][" ALNUM
>> "_]*)[[:space:]]*(\\(.*\\))"
>>
>> I'd guess the problem is that \\(.*\\) matches anything in () after
>> the function name but the regex code only matches against a line at a
>> time and has no way of continuing the match beyond a line.
>>
>> The only way to go beyond a line seems to be to use a character by
>> character hardcoded parser such as C uses.
>>
>> In tagmanager/php.c there is a bunch of code that looks like someone
>> started to do it, status unknown.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lex
>>
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > mc
>> >
>> >
>> >
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