...A parser is useful for static analysis, manipulation of code and basically any other application dealing with code programmatically. A parser constructs an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) of the code and thus allows dealing with it in an abstract and robust way. As the parser is based on the tokens returned by token_get_all (which is only able to lex the PHP version it runs on), additionally a wrapper for emulating tokens from newer versions is provided. This allows to parse PHP 7.4 source code running on PHP 7.0, for example. ...
Transpiles/Converts Pascal to Working PHP Source Code
...As a guide to what PAS2PHP can achieve... my web site is written in Pascal, and then converted to PHP. (The code is in the source package). PAS2PHP uses the Pascal ParseTree Classes (PasTree) which comes with FreePascal, and therefore the parsing limits are defined by this library.
ActiveLink PHP XML Package provides means to parse, read, modify and output XML and XML documents without using any PHP XML libraries. Included classes are: XML, XMLDocument, XMLBranch, XMLLeaf, RSS, Tag, Tree, Branch, Leaf, File, Socket, HTTPClient.