Would it be possible to edit a laravel config file?

[austinkregel]

👋 Hi there, I'm really loving this library. Since I found it my mind has been alight with ideas for possible uses.

Most recently, I attempted to use this project to edit a Laravel config/app.php file. When I had the PhpFile printed out, there were no contents as if the whole file was empty 🤔

I thought about it some more and honestly didn't know what I was expecting to have happen. Laravel config files can generally be a variety of things including whole \Closures, method calls, or an evaluated method chain which really complicated my thoughts on this matter.

I would really love to be able to edit the config files without having to evaluate the env method, any functions, method calls, or chained method calls, however the only way I can find to do so is to evaluate them, turning them into static arrays that lose all the comments.

Since the examples were class like files I wasn't sure if editing a simple php file with a returned array was a supported use case or not. 🤔

[dg]

I think PhpParser would be better suited for this. This library has an API for namespaces, classes, methods, functions, but not for PHP code itself, which it just sees as a strings. With PhpParser you can go further and parse the code of the arrays and modify it.

https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser/

[austinkregel]

Thank you! I'll take a look at that library