[Geany] Recognising PHP code (and perhaps others)

[Lex Trotman]

2010/12/20 Krzysztof Żelechowski <giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl>:
> 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?

Ok, patches welcome

Cheers
Lex

>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>