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pharborist/pharborist
=====================

Pharborist builds a syntax tree for PHP that can be traversed and manipulated.

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Since Aug 15Pushed 3mo agoCompare

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pharborist
==========

[](#pharborist)

[![Pharborist logo](./docs/logo_128px.png "Pharborist logo")](./docs/logo_128px.png)

A PHP library to query and transform PHP source code via tree operations. Originally built for . Very minimally maintained. Unless another project explicitly requires this, [use Rector instead](https://getrector.com/).

Below is an example of how the API might look once its more developed:

```
// Add use declaration if it does not already exist. Use UtilityString alias if conflict
$alias = $tree->ensureUseDeclaration('Drupal\Component\Utility\String', 'UtilityString');
// Find all calls to check_plain and rename them to use String::checkPlain
$function_calls = $tree->find(Filter::functionCall('check_plain'));
foreach ($function_calls as $call) {
  $class_method_call = ClassMethodCallNode::create($alias, 'check_plain', $call->getArgumentList());
  $call->replaceWith($class_method_call);
}
```

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

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

use Pharborist\Parser;
use Pharborist\Namespaces\NamespaceNode;
use Pharborist\Filter;

$filename = $argv[1];
$tree = Parser::parseFile($filename);

// check there only one namespace declaration
$namespaces = $tree->children(Filter::isInstanceOf('\Pharborist\Namespaces\NamespaceNode'));
if ($namespaces->count() > 1) {
  die('More then one namespace at line ' . $namespaces[1]->getLineNumber() . PHP_EOL);
}
```

###  Health Score

35

—

LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance53

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity16

Limited adoption so far

Community16

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity50

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 60.3% 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.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/329663?v=4)[Joao Ventura](/maintainers/jcnventura)[@jcnventura](https://github.com/jcnventura)

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Top Contributors

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