We have a PHP project and this is our first product delivery. We want to add a disclaimer to all *.php files in the project. Is there any free/OS tool that we can use to avoid donkey work :( ? We have around 100 source code files.
A:
You could write a script to do it.
It is fairly unlikely that there is a tool out there that does specifically this, seeing that is fairly trivial. (Not to say that such a tool does not exist)
phsr
2010-07-06 13:32:25
Why the downvote?
phsr
2010-07-06 13:36:45
of course I can. why to reinvent the wheel if there is already.and if i will write, I will share with rest of the world. (i did not give down vote)
Ankit Jain
2010-07-06 13:36:56
The way your question is asked, it makes it sound like you want to avoid manually pasting the disclaimer to the code, not that you want to avoid writing a ~5 line script. (Ack'd that you didn't give the downvote, Ankit)
phsr
2010-07-06 13:40:43
+1
A:
A simple shell script would do, if you are using linux. You can write a small PHP command line script which will take as input a file name, open the file, and replace the first <?php with <?php /* Your disclaimer */
Then you can call this script with something like this:
find . -name '*.php' exec php yourscript.php \{\} \;
But try first on some copy, and be sure you don't introduce regressions.
In linux there are tools too, (kfilereplace for instance), but I don't trust that.
Or grep and sed, if you are the hardcore kind :)
Palantir
2010-07-06 13:36:07
A:
Please don't do that. It just annoys the developer who takes over. I always do a huge regex replace to get rid of those annoying disclaimers.
Coronatus
2010-07-06 13:48:10
I don't mind other developers adding disclaimers to their source code, as long as the script was in fact wrote by them and they use the PHPDoc standard?
Martin Bean
2010-07-06 13:57:48