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Subject: Access to syntax tree?
From: jeremy@pinacol.com (Jeremy)

Is there any way to access the parse tree of a PHP file from within PHP?

I'm trying to write a code-checking utility to find namespace-related 
problems in code and alert me to them.  Specifically:

namespace foo\bar;

function foobar()
{
	try
	{
		...
	}
	catch(Exception $e)
	{
		//nothing will be caught
		//I forgot to qualify
		//code silently fails
	}
}

I didn't want to put a whole lot of work into this, so I'm trying to 
avoid having to write in C/flex/ANTLR/etc.  There's a bit of 
grease-monkey internals stuff in PHP so I thought I would check.

Thanks,
Jeremy