Out With Regex, In With Tokens

Sean Coates

Monday 28 September 2009 from 20:00 to 08:04

Talk in English - US at CodeWorks 2009 (Atlanta)
Short URL: https://joind.in/talk/329aa (QR-Code (opens in new window))

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Out With Regex, In With Tokens

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Benjamin Young at 10:01 on 30 Sep 2009

Well presented and good information, but the day-to-day applicability of parsing PHP tokens was harder to see. Knowing how to build parsers and tokenizers for any language (especially one's own DSL's) would be a good extension to this talk.

Dorea Hardy at 10:49 on 30 Sep 2009

I think you had the same problem in this session as you had in the "Stupid Browser Tricks" ... first session after lunch is about as bad as the first session in the morning! I was a bit confused (might have been related to food induced sleepiness) but I'll do more digging as I can find time.

Errol Sayre at 11:37 on 1 Oct 2009

This talk mostly dealt with the PHP Tokenizer extension which seems to be primarily useful for refactoring or other source code operations rather than user input processing which the session description indicated it would be about.

The most useful gem I saw in this talk was the brief mention of HTMLPurifier, which I think will come in handy.