php2py

PHP to Python transpiler.

• Free software: GNU General Public License v3

Use cases

• Helping port PHP code to Python (provides a first pass, which can then be manually edited).

Features

• Translates a subset of PHP to Python.

Install

• You need PHP and composer installed on your system.
• You need Python 3.10+.

For development

• From a git checkout, run

poetry shell
poetry install
composer install

For actual use

This should work:

pipx install php2py

Architecture

• Front-end (PHP parser): uses an external PHP parser (nikic/php-parser) to parse PHP code and build an AST.
• Back-end (Python generator): uses the AST to generate Python code, via pattern matching.
• Python code is generated from AST using the unparse from the stdlib.

TODO

• Add test cases (real programs) and make sure they pass.
• Make a runtime / stdlib of common PHP functions in Python.
• Cleanup.

Prior art

• https://github.com/nicolasrod/php2python

Contributing

I don't have time to work on this project ATM, but I'm happy to review pull requests.

If you are a student (or a group of students) in a computer science or engineering program, and you want to work on this, please contact me (mailto:sf@abilian.com).

If you think this project can be useful for your company, you can support the development effort through a sponsorship via my company, Abilian: https://abilian.com/.

Credits

This package was created with Cruft and the abilian/cookiecutter-abilian-python project template.

This project uses the nikic/php-parser PHP parser (in PHP).