Hi,
All functions that I have tested still fail to report this as an error:
Even the exec('php -l filename.php')
<?php
DELIBERTE PHP ERROR;
?>
That will return as correct syntax but when you run it you get:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in filename.php on line 2
php_check_syntax
(PHP 5 <= 5.0.4)
php_check_syntax — Verifica la sintaxis PHP del archivo especificado (y lo ejecuta)
Descripción
Realiza un chequeo de sintaxis (lint) sobre el nombre_archivo , probando por errores de script.
Esto es similar al uso de php -l desde la línea de comandos, excepto que php_check_syntax() ejecutará (pero no produce salida) el nombre_archivo ejecutado.
Por ejemplo, si una función es definida en nombre_archivo , esta función definida estará disponible desde el archivo que ejecutó php_check_syntax(), pero la salida desde nombre_archivo será suprimida.
Note: Por razones técnicas, esta función es considerada obsoleta y eliminada de PHP. En su lugar, use php -l algun_archivo.php dese la línea de comandos.
Lista de parámetros
- nombre_archivo
-
El nombre del archivo a verificar.
- mensaje_error
-
Si el parámetro mensaje_error es usado, contendrá un mensaje de error generado por el chequeo de sintaxis. mensaje_error es pasado por referencia.
Valores retornados
Devuelve TRUE si el chequeo lint pasa, y FALSE si el chequeo falla o nombre_archivo no puede ser abierto.
Registro de cambios
| Versión | Descripción |
|---|---|
| 5.0.5 | Esta función fue eliminada de PHP. |
| 5.0.3 | Llamar exit() después de php_check_syntax() resultaba en un fallo de segmentación. |
| 5.0.1 | mensaje_error es pasado por referencia. |
Ejemplos
php -l algun_archivo.php
El resultado del ejemplo seria algo similar a:
PHP Parse error: unexpected T_STRING in /tmp/algun_archivo.php on line 81
php_check_syntax
25-Jul-2008 10:37
27-Apr-2008 12:01
Sorry, I'm retarded. I did a little more testing and found big issues. I've fixed them in the following code. This example is now dependant on http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.token-get-all.php#80335 for a bugfix workaround with token_get_all(); So be sure to include that function in your script when you run this function.
<?php
/**
* Check Eval
* Performs a Syntax check without killing the parser (hopefully)
*
* @params string PHP to be evaluated
* @return array Parse error info or true for success
**/
function checkEval( $php )
{
$evalStr = 'return;';
# Get the string tokens
$crack = token_get_all( "<?php\n".$php );
# Drop our manually entered opening tag
array_shift( $crack );
token_fix( $crack );
# Check to see how we need to proceed
# prepare the string for parsing
if( isset( $crack[0][0] ) &&
(
$crack[0][0] === T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING ||
$crack[0][0] === T_STRING ||
$crack[0][0] === T_OPEN_TAG
)
){
$evalStr .= '?>';
}
# Make sure syntax reporting is on...probably only need E_PARSE...but I'm anal
$oldErr = error_reporting( E_ALL | E_STRICT );
# Prevent output
ob_start();
eval( $evalStr.$php );
$evaluput = ob_get_clean();
# Reset error reporting
error_reporting( $oldErr );
# Only do this if there was output
if( $evaluput !== '' )
{
# Strip annoying html tags, in case html reporting is enabled in php.ini
$evaluput = strip_tags( $evaluput );
# Fancy Regex to pull the error that killed us
$pattern = '/Parse error:\s*syntax error,(.+?)\s+in\s+.+?\s*line\s+(\d+)/';
$parse_fail = (bool)preg_match( $pattern, $evaluput, $match );
# Parse error to report?
if( $parse_fail === true )
{
return array(
'line' => (int)$match[2],
'msg' => $match[1]
);
}
}
return true;
}
?>
25-Apr-2008 01:20
2: kevin at metalaxe dot com
Hm.. i think your function didnt work...
try this:
$php = 'asfvsd <? echo \'\'aaa\'; ?> asvsdgb';
checkEval( $php );
it returns actual error... from eval(); and not expected array..
but i liked the idea about return after function.. and pattern of error, thanx :) I will complete my function
22-Apr-2008 09:43
alx at inbox dot lv says: "Nope guys.. to check the valid php you must do the followed..."
Actually that will fail when anything fatal occurs because the code will actually be executed! :)
nicolas dot grekas+php at gmail dot com says: "I can't find a way to break the dead code sandbox. Who can ?"
Why all the complications just to protect braces? Further, unbalanced braces is something we want to syntaxually check isn't it? Let's make this useful :)
Here's what I've discovered to use without any issues over the years. From nicolas and alx's examples I remodeled it a little bit to hopefully catch any case now. By all means tell me if it is broken in some way :) Remember though that it is ONLY a syntax check!
P.S. I couldn't seem to get this to work properly in CLI interactive even with the function below as separate file include. It appears that the CLI always outputs and that OB doesn't get buffred. Makes no sense...
<?php
/**
* Check Eval
* Performs a Syntax check without killing the parser (hopefully)
*
* @params string PHP to be evaluated
* @return array Parse error info or true for success
**/
function checkEval( $php )
{
$evalStr = 'return;';
# Get the string tokens
$crack = token_get_all( $php );
# Parser tokens to check for
# we are only checking the first token because anything else
# would result in an expected syntax error
$tokens = array( T_OPEN_TAG, T_OPEN_TAG_WITH_ECHO );
# Check to see how we need to proceed
# prepare the string for parsing
if( isset( $crack[0] ) && in_array( $crack[0][0], $tokens, true ) )
$evalStr .= '?>';
# Make sure syntax reporting is on...probably only need E_PARSE...but I'm anal
$oldErr = error_reporting( E_ALL | E_STRICT );
# Prevent output
ob_start();
$test = eval( $evalStr.$php );
$evaluput = ob_get_clean();
# Reset error reporting
error_reporting( $oldErr );
# Only do this if there was output
if( $evaluput !== '' )
{
# Strip annoying html tags, in case html reporting is enabled in php.ini
$evaluput = strip_tags( $evaluput );
# Fancy Regex to pull the error that killed us
$pattern = '/Parse error:\s*syntax error,(.+?)\s+in\s+.+?\s*line\s+(\d+)/';
$parse_fail = (bool)preg_match( $pattern, $evaluput, $match );
# Parse error to report?
if( $parse_fail === true )
{
return array(
'line' => (int)$match[2],
'msg' => $match[1]
);
}
}
return true;
}
?>
11-Apr-2008 10:38
Nope guys.. to check the valid php you must do the followed:
<?
function checkPHP($source) {
ob_start();
$sowhat = @eval('?>'.$source);
$GLOBALS['sowhat'] = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
return $sowhat === NULL ? true : false;
}
$source = '
bla bla <?=$foo?> some stuff <?
foreach ($somethins as $somethig) {
// whatever
}';
if (checkPHP($source)) {
echo 'PHP code is correct';
} else {
echo 'there are errors in your php: '.$GLOBALS['sowhat'];
}
05-Feb-2008 02:35
While developing an app where I have to include PHP files written by a user, I came across the following problem:
I used "php -l somefile.php" to check the syntax of the file I was about to include and if it passed, I would include it - so far so good. But in some test cases, the file I was including would have other includes/requires inside it. If one of these was invalid, then I would still get the parse error that I was trying to avoid.
I got round it using this:
<?php
function CheckSyntax($fileName, $checkIncludes = true)
{
// If it is not a file or we can't read it throw an exception
if(!is_file($fileName) || !is_readable($fileName))
throw new Exception("Cannot read file ".$fileName);
// Sort out the formatting of the filename
$fileName = realpath($fileName);
// Get the shell output from the syntax check command
$output = shell_exec('php -l "'.$fileName.'"');
// Try to find the parse error text and chop it off
$syntaxError = preg_replace("/Errors parsing.*$/", "", $output, -1, $count);
// If the error text above was matched, throw an exception containing the syntax error
if($count > 0)
throw new Exception(trim($syntaxError));
// If we are going to check the files includes
if($checkIncludes)
{
foreach(GetIncludes($fileName) as $include)
{
// Check the syntax for each include
CheckSyntax($include);
}
}
}
function GetIncludes($fileName)
{
// NOTE that any file coming into this function has already passed the syntax check, so
// we can assume things like proper line terminations
$includes = array();
// Get the directory name of the file so we can prepend it to relative paths
$dir = dirname($fileName);
// Split the contents of $fileName about requires and includes
// We need to slice off the first element since that is the text up to the first include/require
$requireSplit = array_slice(preg_split('/require|include/i', file_get_contents($fileName)), 1);
// For each match
foreach($requireSplit as $string)
{
// Substring up to the end of the first line, i.e. the line that the require is on
$string = substr($string, 0, strpos($string, ";"));
// If the line contains a reference to a variable, then we cannot analyse it
// so skip this iteration
if(strpos($string, "$") !== false)
continue;
// Split the string about single and double quotes
$quoteSplit = preg_split('/[\'"]/', $string);
// The value of the include is the second element of the array
// Putting this in an if statement enforces the presence of '' or "" somewhere in the include
// includes with any kind of run-time variable in have been excluded earlier
// this just leaves includes with constants in, which we can't do much about
if($include = $quoteSplit[1])
{
// If the path is not absolute, add the dir and separator
// Then call realpath to chop out extra separators
if(strpos($include, ':') === FALSE)
$include = realpath($dir.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$include);
array_push($includes, $include);
}
}
return $includes;
}
?>
This checks as many of the includes inside the file as it possibly can without executing anything.
25-Jan-2008 07:16
My previous code was buggy sorry, here is an update (thanks phprockstheworld). I can't find a way to break the dead code sandbox. Who can ?
<?php
function eval_syntax($code)
{
$braces = 0;
$inString = 0;
// We need to know if braces are correctly balanced.
// This is not trivial due to variable interpolation
// which occurs in heredoc, backticked and double quoted strings
foreach (token_get_all('<?php ' . $code) as $token)
{
if (is_array($token))
{
switch ($token[0])
{
case T_CURLY_OPEN:
case T_DOLLAR_OPEN_CURLY_BRACES:
case T_START_HEREDOC: ++$inString; break;
case T_END_HEREDOC: --$inString; break;
}
}
else if ($inString & 1)
{
switch ($token)
{
case '`':
case '"': --$inString; break;
}
}
else
{
switch ($token)
{
case '`':
case '"': ++$inString; break;
case '{': ++$braces; break;
case '}':
if ($inString) --$inString;
else
{
--$braces;
if ($braces < 0) return false;
}
break;
}
}
}
if ($braces) return false; // Unbalanced braces would break the eval below
else
{
ob_start(); // Catch potential parse error messages
$code = eval('if(0){' . $code . '}'); // Put $code in a dead code sandbox to prevent its execution
ob_end_clean();
return false !== $code;
}
}
12-Jan-2008 08:51
Nicolas' code is great! Just another check to make sure a } doesn't come before { and it's much more secure. Still wouldn't trust just anyones code with it though.
<?php
function eval_syntax($code){
$b = 0;
foreach (token_get_all($code) as $token){
if('{' == $token){
++$b;
}elseif('}' == $token){
--$b;
if( $b < 0 ){
return false; // } came before {
}
}
}
// Unbalanced braces would break the eval below
if( $b !== 0){
return false;
}
// Catch potential parse error messages
ob_start();
$code = eval('if(0){' . $code . '}'); // Put $code in a dead code sandbox to prevent its execution
ob_end_clean();
return false !== $code;
}
21-Dec-2007 02:57
The code posted by nicolas dot grekas is very clever but don't use it on anything other than code you know is safe because if the code was "} delete_everything(); {" it could do anything it likes.
Just wanted to warn anyone incase they were going to put it on their website to check PHP.
24-Aug-2007 01:23
This detects parse errors without executing the code:
<?php
function eval_syntax($code)
{
$b = 0;
foreach (token_get_all($code) as $token)
{
if ('{' == $token) ++$b;
else if ('}' == $token) --$b;
}
if ($b) return false; // Unbalanced braces would break the eval below
else
{
ob_start(); // Catch potential parse error messages
$code = eval('if(0){' . $code . '}'); // Put $code in a dead code sandbox to prevent its execution
ob_end_clean();
return false !== $code;
}
}
?>
25-Mar-2007 12:42
<?PHP
// Think about shell-command escaping if you`re using user-input
function php_check_syntax($file,&$error) {
exec("php -l $file",$error,$code);
if($code==0)
return true;
return false;
}
?>
Note: This is UNIX
Note: If your environment-variable PATH is not set correctly, you will need to insert the path to php (like /usr/local/bin/php)
16-Feb-2005 05:38
PROBLEM: Your page is blank, or you can not define any functions in an include.
As mentioned below, the php_check_syntax function will include your file. So you may not be able to include it again. If you have an include later in your code, and you define any functions, you will get an error, or in some cases a blank page.
