[Geany] Recognising PHP code (and perhaps others)

[Krzysztof Żelechowski]

Dnia poniedziałek, 20 grudnia 2010 o 07:58:44 Lex Trotman napisał(a):
> 2010/12/16 Krzysztof Żelechowski <giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl>:
> > Dnia wtorek, 14 grudnia 2010 o 13:39:46 Lex Trotman napisał(a):
> >> On 14 December 2010 22:03, Etienne MELEARD <etienne.meleard at cru.fr> wrote:
> >> > 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.
> >>
> >
> > Rather, to use the PHP tokeniser -- requires PHP itself.
> 
> Unfortunately the tagmanager (the software used by Geany is frm
> another project) doesn't allow for any sort of "plugin" parsing other
> than the regexes so using the PHP tokeniser could be quite complex.

Assuming that Geany can use a "proper parser" for PHP, which means executable code rather then regex-based, you can make the parser delegate the hard work to the tokeniser provided by PHP.  Problem solved?

Cheers,
Chris