Navigating up from child

[zenoware]

First off, this is amazing!! Great work and very easy to use! Thank you to all the contributors of this because it rocks!

I attempted to look through the code and documentation and could not find a way to go from a child node to it's parent.

Some insight, I am attempting to do this in order to get the fully qualified name.

Thanks!

[nikic]

The AST does not have parent references by default, but you should be able to easily add them yourself using something like this:

function add_parents(ast\Node $node, ast\Node $parent = null) {
    $node->parent = $parent;
    foreach ($node->children as $child) {
        if ($child instanceof ast\Node) {
            add_parents($child, $node);
        }
    }
}

Btw, unless you need to use php-ast for performance reasons, I'd usually recommend using https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser. It already implements the resolution for namespaced names (which is a lot trickier than people tend to think...)

[zenoware]

Thanks for the response and I will check out this solution plus PHP-Parser. Yeah I figured it will be a tough task. So far I have been having a fantastic experience with php-ast! Using it to create a static code analysis and php is the latest language I am including. This package is making it a breeze!