getting all the methods in a file

Question

I am trying to find a best way to get all the private, public, static, protected methods in a file.... what would be the best way to do it. currently when I do file_get_contents it dumps the whole file but I need some kind of regex that will give me methods only

$filecontent = file_get_contents($fn->getPath()."/".$fn->getFilename());

I am not sure if I can use this

preg_match("/private function | protected function | public function | public static function/") etc etc

if there is a better way I would like to know about that as well

Shouldn't you be able to use reflection for this? http://php.net/manual/en/book.reflection.php — Cyclonecode, Oct 24 '13 at 21:40
well this cant be used....It wouldnt find the class as its not included — Asim Zaidi, Oct 24 '13 at 22:00
What's stopping you from including it. Reflection is probably the cleanest way to do this — tlenss, Oct 24 '13 at 22:07

Fleshgrinder · Answer 1 · 2013-10-24T22:54:21.913

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Use reflection, assuming your path is PSR-0 you can do something along the lines:

<?php

$document_root = "/document/root";

$file = "{$document_root}/PSR/Compatible/Path/ClassName.php";

$class = str_replace(
  array($document_root, DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, ".php"),
  array("", "\\", ""),
  $file
);

$reflector = new \ReflectionClass($class);

var_dump($reflector->getMethods());

?>

Hope this helps.

edited Oct 24 '13 at 22:54

answered Oct 24 '13 at 22:09

Fleshgrinder

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this doesnt work...gives me syntax error for [ in str_replace( [ $document_root, – Asim Zaidi Oct 24 '13 at 22:31
Use `array()` syntax if your PHP version is too old. – Fleshgrinder Oct 24 '13 at 22:54

getting all the methods in a file

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