[Geany] Recognising PHP code (and perhaps others)

[Lex Trotman]

On 14 December 2010 22:03, Etienne MELEARD <etienne.meleard at cru.fr> wrote:
> Le 14/12/2010 11:58, Lex Trotman a écrit :
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Yeah, declarations can be like this to describe optionnal arguments and
> their default values :
>
>    function foo($arg1, $arg2 = array('random', 'stuff'), $arg3 = 'bar') {
>        // ...
>    }
>
> Hope im clear enough ...

Thanks, clearly nested brackets and multiline declarations are beyond
the regex system.  It needs someone with C and PHP capability to
create a proper parser similar to the one used for C.

Cheers
Lex

>>
>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Murray Collingwood
>>>>> Focus Computing
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