SourceMonkey is a package for working with source code, or text files on your local filesystem. SourceMonkey is useful for automated code generation and modification within your application.
To install with composer use the following command:
composer install webspanner/sourcemonkey
Pass the fully qualified path to the file which you are editing into the constructor.
$sourceMonkey = new SourceMonkey('/tmp/my-file.php');
To insert a string into a file after a given line number, moving all later text further down the page use the insertLineAfter() method
$sourceMonkey->insertLineAfter('some string', 42);
To write a string to a file, overwriting it's existing contents use the write() method.
$sourceMonkey->write('some string');
To read the contents of a file into a 1-indexed array of strings, without line breaks use the getLines() method.
$sourceMonkey->getLines();
Get the path of the SourceMonkey instance
$sourceMonkey->getPath();
Returns the line number of the first line which contains the given string
$sourceMonkey->firstLineWithString($string);
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Delete the line at the given number
$sourceMonkey->deleteLine($lineNumber);
Replace the contents of the given line number with the given string
$sourceMonkey->replaceLine($lineNumber, $string);
Get the PHP class property matching the given name from the class in the given source file and return it as a Property model object or null if it does not exist
$sourceMonkey->getProperty($propertyName);
Get the PHP class in the given file name
$sourceMonkey->getClass()