So I’m a little addicted to Stack Overflow. I’ll admit it. I browse it for fun, even during lunch-breaks and after work. As far as the reputation ranking goes, for the past 12 months or so, I’ve been sitting at around 30th to 40th place, first hitting the front page back in November 08, when […]

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I've decided to start writing a short series of posts highlighting some common mistakes I see in questions and, more importantly, answers on Stack Overflow. I enter this knowing fully well that I am but an amateur who is also learning new things daily. Anyway, the series kicks off with Part Zero, titled 83.333% of [...]

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Here's a little snippet of the day for you. A regex to grab the names of functions from a PHP file.

/^\s*(?:(?:public|private|protected|static|abstract|final)\s+)*
function\s+&?([a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*)/

Linebreak added for legibility.
If you were wanting to know the functions which exist in a particular class or file for an application or similar, you'd be better off using the PHP Reflection functions which are [...]

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