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griffin/harpy
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Search for Classes Names inside PHP Source Code

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harpy
=====

[](#harpy)

Search for Classes Names inside PHP Source Code

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Description
-----------

[](#description)

Harpy is a micro library to search for classes names inside PHP source code, using patterns to find files and parsing them to retrieve all defined classes.

This library is part of [Griffin Project](https://github.com/griffin-php).

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

This package uses [Composer](https://packagist.org/packages/griffin/harpy) as default repository. You can install it adding the name of package in `require`section of `composer.json`, pointing to the latest stable version.

```
{
  "require": {
    "griffin/harpy": "^1.0"
  }
}
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

The `Griffin\Harpy\Harpy::search` method use variadic parameters of `string`representing files or directories. These directories will be recursively listed searching for files. Each file found will be parsed searching for class definitions.

```
use Griffin\Harpy\Harpy;

$harpy = new Harpy();

$classnames = $harpy->search(
    // Files
    './src/Harpy.php',
    './tests/HarpyTest.php',
    // Directories
    './src',
    './tests',
);

var_dump($classnames);

/*
array(6) {
  [0]=>
  string(19) "Griffin\Harpy\Harpy"
  [1]=>
  string(27) "GriffinTest\Harpy\HarpyTest"
  [2]=>
  string(20) "Griffin\Harpy\Finder"
  [3]=>
  string(20) "Griffin\Harpy\Parser"
  [4]=>
  string(28) "GriffinTest\Harpy\FinderTest"
  [5]=>
  string(28) "GriffinTest\Harpy\ParserTest"
}
 */
```

If Harpy hasn't permissions to list directories or read files, warnings will not be raised, because it only searches for classes and not handles errors. Also, Harpy is not a class loader, you must use tools like Composer to execute this job.

Example
-------

[](#example)

An example is retrieve all classes from directory and initialize a object if class implements specific interface.

```
use FooBar\ExampleInterface;
use Griffin\Harpy\Harpy;

$objects    = [];
$classnames = (new Harpy())->search('src');

foreach ($classnames as $classname) {
    if (is_subclass_of($classname, ExampleInterface::class, true /* allow string */)) {
        $objects[] = new $classname();
    }
}
```

Development
-----------

[](#development)

You can use Docker Compose to build an image and run a container to develop and test this package.

```
docker-compose build
docker-compose run --rm php composer install
docker-compose run --rm php composer test
```

References
----------

[](#references)

- [nikic/PHP-Parser](https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser): A PHP parser written in PHP

License
-------

[](#license)

This package is opensource and available under MIT license described in [LICENSE](https://github.com/griffin-php/harpy/blob/main/LICENSE).

###  Health Score

24

—

LowBetter than 32% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity54

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~1 days

Total

3

Last Release

1826d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

classesclassnamesfindergriffinparserparserfinderclassesclassnamesgriffin

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Code StylePHP\_CodeSniffer

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