ajf/php4_constructor_finder

Finds PHP4-style constructors

PHP 4 Constructor Finder

Name says it all. It's a tiny little PHP script that uses Nikita Popov's PHP-Parser to find PHP 4 constructors., _(*1)

What are PHP 4 constructors? These:, _(*2)

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., _(*3)

This is a problem, because what if you make a class called Filter with a method called filter? Uh-oh., _(*4)

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., _(*5)

Installation and Usage

For development, composer install in the checked-out repo. For normal use, composer install -g ajf/PHP4_Constructor_Finder., _(*6)

Command line usage is finder file1.php file2.php ...., _(*7)

Run the tests with vendor/bin/phpunit --bootstrap vendor/autoload.php src/tests.php., _(*8)