Reflection error: [class] not found

[sedimentation-fault]

Dear phpstan support,

this is actually not a bug - it should be a discussion instead. But I was not able to start a discussion, because my browser is not one of the four supported browsers in Github (Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, or...Chrome. :roll:) and I refuse to change browser for Github's sake. Feel free to move it to discussions.

My problem to discuss is this:

I have an "old-fashioned" PHP project, with lots of class constants (and file constants, and language constants...). Its code starts like this:

include_once("configuration.inc.php");
include_once(CLASS_XXX);
include_once(CLASS_YYY);

Now, phpstan needs of course to know where to get all this from. So I pass it (with -a yyy.php) a file yyy.php where CLASS_XXX and CLASS_YYY are defined as follows:

   define("SITE_PATH","/some/full/path/to/site/dir");
   define("FILE_SEPARATOR", "/");
   define("APPL_PATH",SITE_PATH.FILE_SEPARATOR."appl");
   define("CONFIG_FILE",APP_PATH.FILE_SEPARATOR."mydefs.inc.php");
   include_once(CONFIG_FILE);

You don't see CLASS_XXX etc. being defined here? Right, they are defined in the included CONFIG_FILE, or in the files that this CONFIG_FILE includes itself.

When I read about the -a option and the fact that the file passed there is "executed" by PHP, I thought it would also execute the

include_once(CONFIG_FILE);

statements, thus including CONFIG_FILE (whose name is known at that point) and all files it includes itself. But this does not seem to be the case, as phpstan complains that it cannot find the class zzz in the first class

class myClass extends zzz {...

What can I do about it? Any suggestions? Do I have to inspect all include's and write an autoloader script? Is there some tool that can do this for me (read a file and all its include's recursively, then write the autoloader.php for me)? Or, maybe, I miss some option in phpstan that does exactly this?

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[sedimentation-fault]

I hope you'll understand.

No, I don't. I hope you can read.

[sedimentation-fault]

Oh well,...screw it.

[ondrejmirtes]

@sedimentation-fault Hi, the feature works as you suppose it works. If you have any difficulties with it, create a small reproduction repository that shows the problem, thanks.

[sedimentation-fault]

@ondrejmirtes Thanks for answering. I am trying my luck. Have problems in creating an autoload.php that contains all that is needed to pass it with the -a option - but I am battling it. You may see references from other projects here, so keep an eye on it and on the references, as they will be indicating what I am trying.

P.S.
Sorry about waking your bot, but if you try Github with, say, Palemoon, you will understand why. No drop down menu works, no editor buttons, no editor tabs, no preview. All this used to work, until Github decided that a browser that does not implement Polymer Web Extensions is not worth to surf its pages. Me, on the other side, thinks that pages should be best viewed with...ANY browser (I never thought I would have to link to this in 2021...).

[ondrejmirtes]

If you have any difficulties with it, create a small reproduction repository that shows the problem, thanks.

[sedimentation-fault]

If you have any difficulties with it, create a small reproduction repository that shows the problem, thanks.

I'm currently waiting for the issues at EFTEC/AutoLoadOne#3 to be resolved so that I can get a working autoload.php from AutoLoadOne that I can pass to phpstan. As soon as this obstacle is overcome, we can see if any other problems arise.

If this method of creating autoload.php with AutoLoadOne will work, you will be able to add it as a tip somewhere, for people with the same problem ("how do I get an autoload.php to work with phpstan for my complex project?"). Until then, you can see what I tried there - and help if you like. ;-)

I guess getting this to work will benefit both projects, AutoLoadOne and phpstan.

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