setasign/php-stub-generator

A tool to generate stub-files for your php classes.

php-stub-generator

A tool to generate stub-files for your php classes., _(*1)

The main purpose for this tool is to generate stub-files from php classes to have code completion for your IDE when encrypting your library with e.g. the ioncube encoder., _(*2)

, _(*3)

Installation

A basic installation via Composer could be done this way:, _(*4)

composer require setasign/php-stub-generator

Composer will install the tool to your project's vendor/setasign/php-stub-generator directory., _(*5)

Basic usage

<?php
declare(strict_types=1);

use setasign\PhpStubGenerator\PhpStubGenerator;
use setasign\PhpStubGenerator\Reader\AllFiles;

require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

$generator = new PhpStubGenerator();
$generator->addSource(
    'setapdf-core',
    new AllFiles(__DIR__ . '/vendor/setasign/setapdf-core/library')
);
$output = $generator->generate();

file_put_contents(__DIR__ . '/setapdf-core-stub.php', $output);

Alternatively you could just call the cli helper., _(*6)

vendor/bin/php-stub-generator generate setapdf-core/library setapdf-core-stub.php

Settings

The PhpStubGenerator class has following settings:, _(*7)

class PhpStubGenerator
{
    /**
     * End of line character(s).
     *
     * Doesn't change the used EOL character(s) of doc blocks.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    public static $eol = "\n";

    /**
     * Tab character(s)
     *
     * @var string
     */
    public static $tab = '    ';

    /**
     * If enabled all generated class constants get a visibility (the generated stubs require PHP >= 7.1)
     * 
     * Within the cli tool can be set with the option "--addClassConstantsVisibility"
     * 
     * @var bool
     */
    public static $addClassConstantsVisibility = false;

    /**
     * If false the interface \Stringable won't be filtered out (the generated stubs require PHP >= 8.0).
     *
     * Within the cli tool can be set with the option "--includeStringable"
     *
     * @var bool
     */
    public static bool $includeStringable = false;
}

Drawbacks

• Calculated constants or constants that use other constants like __DIR__ will be filled with the values of the runtime environment.
• Global Functions and Constants are currently ignored