In the previous post, we looked at how to compile TWIG to raw PHP. It's one step forward, but it's not enough.
Today we look at how we turn the raw PHP code to the code PHPStan understands.
In the previous post, we successfully rendered compiled templates/meal.twig template:
{{ meal.title }}
What is the difference between rendered and compiled in our context?
After compilation templates/meal.twig to PHP, we'll get a child of Twig\Template class:
use Twig\Environment;
use Twig\Source;
use Twig\Template;
/* templates/meal.twig */
class __TwigTemplate_8a9d1381e8329967... extends Template
{
private $source;
private $macros = [];
public function __construct(Environment $env)
{
parent::__construct($env);
$this->source = $this->getSourceContext();
$this->parent = false;
$this->blocks = [];
}
protected function doDisplay(array $context, array $blocks = [])
{
$macros = $this->macros;
// line 1
echo twig_escape_filter(
$this->env,
twig_get_attribute(
$this->env,
$this->source,
($context["meal"] ?? null),
"title",
"any",
false,
false,
false,
1
),
"html",
null,
true
);
}
public function getTemplateName()
{
return "templates/meal.twig";
}
public function isTraitable()
{
return false;
}
public function getDebugInfo()
{
return array (37 => 1);
}
public function getSourceContext()
{
return new Source("", "templates/meal.twig", "");
}
}
What a mess, right? Don't worry; you don't have to understand a single line of it.
What is our plan for today? Somehow "transform" this code so PHPStan can analyze it.
"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away"
The first step is to remove the clutter helpful only for TWIG internals. These methods do not provide any information about the original TWIG code. In other words: remove the PHP content that is always the same, regardless of the TWIG input file we use.
Great question! What would happen if we did? The PHPStan would analyze the content based on the TWIG template, but it would also ** analyze the TWIG generator for template classes**. This way, we would get dozens of always the same errors repeated for every single TWIG file.
We don't want to run PHPStan on TWIG itself; that's a job for Symfony maintainers. We want to only know about possible bugs coming from our TWIG template code:
{{ meal.title }}
How do we define if the class method is proper? Let's use common sense to drop class methods that look like "metadata". If we drop a method that proves helpful in the future, we'll return it.
Look for the keywords mentioned in TWIG template: "meal" and "title". They are mentioned in doDisplay() class method, let's keep that.
-use Twig\Environment;
-use Twig\Source;
use Twig\Template;
/* templates/meal.twig */
class __TwigTemplate_8a9d1381e8329967... extends Template
{
- private $source;
- private $macros = [];
-
- public function __construct(Environment $env)
- {
- parent::__construct($env);
- $this->source = $this->getSourceContext();
- $this->parent = false;
- $this->blocks = [];
- }
-
protected function doDisplay(array $context, array $blocks = [])
{
- $macros = $this->macros;
// line 1
echo twig_escape_filter(
$this->env,
twig_get_attribute(
$this->env,
- $this->source,
($context["meal"] ?? null),
"title",
"any",
false,
false,
false,
1
),
"html",
null,
true
);
}
-
- public function getTemplateName()
- {
- return "templates/meal.twig";
- }
-
- public function isTraitable()
- {
- return false;
- }
-
- public function getDebugInfo()
- {
- return array (37 => 1);
- }
-
- public function getSourceContext()
- {
- return new Source("", "templates/meal.twig", "");
- }
}
In the end we keep only __construct and doDisplay() methods:
use Twig\Template;
/* templates/meal.twig */
class __TwigTemplate_8a9d1381e8329967... extends Template
{
protected function doDisplay(array $context, array $blocks = [])
{
// line 1
echo twig_escape_filter(
$this->env,
twig_get_attribute(
$this->env,
($context["meal"] ?? null),
"title",
"any",
false,
false,
false,
1
),
"html",
null,
true
);
}
}
That looks better. 75 % less code!
But wait...
We're editing a cache PHP code that TWIG compiles. Do we open this file in PHPStorm, edit it, save it and feed it PHPStan?
vendor/bin/phpstan analyse temp/twig/__TwigTemplate_8a9d1381e8329967...php
That might give us the PHPStan analysis we aim for, but would you like to edit cache files for every single TWIG file manually? I thought so.
So how do we automate PHP code modifications based on specific rules? Yes, we could use Rector, but that's a far too heavy tool to include just for a single PHPStan rule.
Instead, we use bare nikic/php-parser and custom NodeVisitor. We don't want to focus on AST modifications, but to give you an idea:
use PhpParser\Node\Stmt\ClassMethod;
use PhpParser\NodeVisitorAbstract;
use PhpParser\NodeTraverser;
final class TwigCleaningNodeVisitor extends NodeVisitorAbstract
{
public function enterNode(Node $node)
{
// not a class method? skip it
if (! $node instanceof ClassMethod) {
return null;
}
// is one of these class method names? skip it
if ($node->name->toString() === 'doDisplay') {
return null;
}
// remove the class method
return NodeTraverser::REMOVE_NODE;
}
}
This node visitor will remove all but doDisplay() method.
Would you like to know more about this? Read Programmatically Modifying PHP Code chapter of the Rector book. Matthias describes behavior in nice short examples.
That's all for today, to keep the reading light. In the next post, we'll try to give doDisplay() a more transparent form.
Happy coding!
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