ajf/php4_constructor_finder

Finds PHP4-style constructors

1.0 2014-11-18 21:27 UTC

Requires

• nikic/php-parser: ~1.0

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: 4.3.*

MIT

• Andrea Faulds

README

Name says it all. It's a tiny little PHP script that uses Nikita Popov's PHP-Parser to find PHP 4 constructors.

What are PHP 4 constructors? These:

class Bar {
    public function Bar() {
    }
}

If you didn't know (oh dear god), the modern way to make a constructor is public function __construct() - but for backwards-compatibility, we keep around this thing where a function with the same name of the class is magically a constructor. Yuck.

This is a problem, because what if you make a class called Filter with a method called filter? Uh-oh.

So, Levi Morrison wrote an RFC to get rid of this, and I wrote this at his request. It finds PHP4 constructors. That's it, really.

Installation and Usage

For development, composer install in the checked-out repo. For normal use, composer install -g ajf/PHP4_Constructor_Finder.

Command line usage is finder file1.php file2.php ....

Run the tests with vendor/bin/phpunit --bootstrap vendor/autoload.php src/tests.php.