Parsing php

[octav]

I need to parse some php files, so i made a scanner for php :
import org.htmlparser.tags.Tag;
import org.htmlparser.tags.data.TagData;
import org.htmlparser.util.ParserException;
import org.htmlparser.scanners.TagScanner;

public class PhpScanner extends TagScanner {

    public PhpScanner() {
        super();
    }

    public PhpScanner(String filter) {
        super(filter);
    }

    public String [] getID() {
        String [] ids = new String[3];
        ids[0] = "?";
        ids[1] = "?=";
        ids[2] = "?php";
        return ids;
    }

    protected Tag createTag(TagData tagData, Tag tag, String url)
        throws ParserException {
        String tagContents = tagData.getTagContents();
        tagData.setTagContents(tagContents.substring(1,tagContents.length()-1));
        return new PhpTag(tagData);
    }

}

and a PhpTag class :

import org.htmlparser.tags.Tag;
import org.htmlparser.tags.data.TagData;

public class PhpTag extends Tag
{
   public PhpTag(TagData tagData)
    {
        super(tagData);
    }

    public String toHtml() {
        return "<?"+tagContents+"?>";
    }

    public String toString()
    {
        return "Php Tag : "+tagContents+"; begins at : "+elementBegin()+"; ends at : "+elementEnd();
    }
}

then i tried to register the php scanner without success, any php node in the document was seen like a StringNode...
Donno if this is a bug but the only workaround that i found is modifying
NodeReader.java like this :
if ('/' == ch || '%' == ch || Character.isLetter (ch) || '!' == ch)
was modified with
if ('/' == ch || '%' == ch || '?' == ch || Character.isLetter (ch) || '!' == ch)
the same modification was made to StringParser.java in the same beginTag method and now it looks ok, i can register my phpscanner..
Could all this be made in other way ?

[Derrick Oswald]

I think that's the only way. The low level NodeReader needs to parse it first before your scanner sees it.

[octav]

Ty for the answer, due to the large comunity of php developers, i think that the posibility to parse php should be added by default, anyway good job ... i am happy i found this parser.

[octav]

I still have a problem i cannot parse  "<?php" it looks like the scanner hashmap is somehow altered and  "<?php" is not seen as a scanner anymore... i dunno what is happening... is there someone to help me ... i really don't have too much time for this one.Thanx.

[octav]

Me again :) each new scanner that is created have to return thee ids with upercases.. i didn't knew now everything is og so :
public String [] getID() {
String [] ids = new String[3];
ids[0] = "?";
ids[1] = "?=";
ids[2] = "?PHP";("?php" is wrong)
return ids;
}