Comments on: Identifying function usage in PHP code http://petersonpages.com/mariano/blog/2008/07/24/identifying-function-usage-in-php-code/ The truth behind the curtain Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:35:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: T. http://petersonpages.com/mariano/blog/2008/07/24/identifying-function-usage-in-php-code/#comment-2038 T. Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:22:16 +0000 http://petersonpages.com/mariano/blog/?p=19#comment-2038 In Eclipse I just do a search over the whole project (Ctrl+H) if I wanna see where a method/function is used. After a first search all following searches are usually pretty fast even on projects with several thousand files. But I am really disappointed, that it is 2009, and I still haven't seen an IDE, that allows the development and refactoring features for PHP, that Java developers can use with Eclipse for maaany years now. PHPEclipse is ok, but still far from Eclipse's Java development capabilities. T. In Eclipse I just do a search over the whole project (Ctrl+H) if I wanna see where a method/function is used. After a first search all following searches are usually pretty fast even on projects with several thousand files.

But I am really disappointed, that it is 2009, and I still haven’t seen an IDE, that allows the development and refactoring features for PHP, that Java developers can use with Eclipse for maaany years now. PHPEclipse is ok, but still far from Eclipse’s Java development capabilities.

T.

]]> By: Ian http://petersonpages.com/mariano/blog/2008/07/24/identifying-function-usage-in-php-code/#comment-2023 Ian Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:15:20 +0000 http://petersonpages.com/mariano/blog/?p=19#comment-2023 Hey Mariano, Just one gotcha I wanted to mention about this. Grep will not match across multiple lines. Something like this would get completely missed by grepf: function ILikeToUseReturnALot ( $variable $variable2 ) { } Also, for things that grepf does match, you may want to include -A 2 -B 2 along with the other parameters for grep. It will give you the two lines above and below the matching line which may contain comments or other parameters not included on the matching line which could give additional contextual help. Hey Mariano,

Just one gotcha I wanted to mention about this. Grep will not match across multiple lines. Something like this would get completely missed by grepf:
function
ILikeToUseReturnALot ( $variable
$variable2
)
{
}

Also, for things that grepf does match, you may want to include -A 2 -B 2 along with the other parameters for grep. It will give you the two lines above and below the matching line which may contain comments or other parameters not included on the matching line which could give additional contextual help.

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