Lightweight-PHP-LUA-Parser

PHP Class for parsing LUA files

Performance data:

Tested with PHP version 5.6.11

LUA File Size	PHP Memory Usage	Execution Time
113,49 KB	1.25 MB	0.013 Sec.
1,44 MB	7.75 MB	0.149 Sec.
4,32 MB	11.00 MB	0.844 Sec.

Example usage:

require('parser.php');

$parser = new LUAParser();

try {
	$parser->parseFile('data.lua');
	print_r($parser->data);
}
catch(Exception $e) {
    echo 'Exception: ',  $e->getMessage(), PHP_EOL;
}

Example usage with optional syntax checking:

require('parser.php');

$parser = new LUAParser();

try {

	// Add LUA keys that have to be present in the file
	// If one of the defined keys are missing an syntax error exception will be thrown
	$parser->addSyntaxKey('BookTitle');
	$parser->addSyntaxKey('CharacterName');
	$parser->addSyntaxKey('ListOfBooks');

	$parser->parseFile('data.lua');
	print_r($parser->data);
}
catch(Exception $e) {
    echo 'Exception: ',  $e->getMessage(), PHP_EOL;
}

Example multiple file usage:

require('parser.php');

$parser = new LUAParser();

try {
	$parser->parseFile('data_file_1.lua');
	print_r($parser->data);
	
	$parser->parseFile('data_file_2.lua');
	print_r($parser->data);
	
	$parser->parseFile('data_file_3.lua');
	print_r($parser->data);
}
catch(Exception $e) {
    echo 'Exception: ',  $e->getMessage(), PHP_EOL;
}