PHP CSS Parser
A Parser for CSS Files written in PHP. Allows extraction of CSS files into a data structure, manipulation of said structure and output as (optimized) CSS.
Usage
Installation using composer
Add php-css-parser to your composer.json
{
"require": {
"sabberworm/php-css-parser": "*"
}
}
Extraction
To use the CSS Parser, create a new instance. The constructor takes the following form:
new Sabberworm\CSS\Parser($sText);
To read a file, for example, you’d do the following:
$oCssParser = new Sabberworm\CSS\Parser(file_get_contents('somefile.css'));
$oCssDocument = $oCssParser->parse();
The resulting CSS document structure can be manipulated prior to being output.
Options
Charset
The charset option is used only if no @charset declaration is found in the CSS file. UTF-8 is the default, so you won’t have to create a settings object at all if you don’t intend to change that.
$oSettings = Sabberworm\CSS\Settings::create()->withDefaultCharset('windows-1252');
new Sabberworm\CSS\Parser($sText, $oSettings);
Strict parsing
To have the parser choke on invalid rules, supply a thusly configured Sabberworm\CSS\Settings object:
$oCssParser = new Sabberworm\CSS\Parser(file_get_contents('somefile.css'), Sabberworm\CSS\Settings::create()->beStrict());
Disable multibyte functions
To achieve faster parsing, you can choose to have PHP-CSS-Parser use regular string functions instead of mb_* functions. This should work fine in most cases, even for UTF-8 files, as all the multibyte characters are in string literals. Still it’s not recommended to use this with input you have no control over as it’s not thoroughly covered by test cases.
$oSettings = Sabberworm\CSS\Settings::create()->withMultibyteSupport(false);
new Sabberworm\CSS\Parser($sText, $oSettings);
Manipulation
The resulting data structure consists mainly of five basic types: CSSList, RuleSet, Rule, Selector and Value. There are two additional types used: Import and Charset which you won’t use often.
CSSList
CSSList represents a generic CSS container, most likely containing declaration blocks (rule sets with a selector) but it may also contain at-rules, charset declarations, etc. CSSList has the following concrete subtypes:
Document– representing the root of a CSS file.MediaQuery– represents a subsection of a CSSList that only applies to a output device matching the contained media query.
To access the items stored in a CSSList – like the document you got back when calling $oCssParser->parse() –, use getContents(), then iterate over that collection and use instanceof to check whether you’re dealing with another CSSList, a RuleSet, a Import or a Charset.
To append a new item (selector, media query, etc.) to an existing CSSList, construct it using the constructor for this class and use the append($oItem) method.
RuleSet
RuleSet is a container for individual rules. The most common form of a rule set is one constrained by a selector. The following concrete subtypes exist:
AtRuleSet– for generic at-rules which do not match the ones specifically mentioned like @import, @charset or @media. A common example for this is @font-face.DeclarationBlock– a RuleSet constrained by aSelector; contains an array of selector objects (comma-separated in the CSS) as well as the rules to be applied to the matching elements.
Note: A CSSList can contain other CSSLists (and Imports as well as a Charset) while a RuleSet can only contain Rules.
If you want to manipulate a RuleSet, use the methods addRule(Rule $oRule), getRules() and removeRule($mRule) (which accepts either a Rule instance or a rule name; optionally suffixed by a dash to remove all related rules).
Rule
Rules just have a key (the rule) and a value. These values are all instances of a Value.
Value
Value is an abstract class that only defines the render method. The concrete subclasses for atomic value types are:
Size– consists of a numericsizevalue and a unit.Color– colors can be input in the form #rrggbb, #rgb or schema(val1, val2, …) but are always stored as an array of ('s' => val1, 'c' => val2, 'h' => val3, …) and output in the second form.CSSString– this is just a wrapper for quoted strings to distinguish them from keywords; always output with double quotes.URL– URLs in CSS; always output in URL("") notation.
There is another abstract subclass of Value, ValueList. A ValueList represents a lists of Values, separated by some separation character (mostly ,, whitespace, or /). There are two types of ValueLists:
RuleValueList– The default type, used to represent all multi-valued rules likefont: bold 12px/3 Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif;(where the value would be a whitespace-separated list of the primitive valuebold, a slash-separated list and a comma-separated list).CSSFunction– A special kind of value that also contains a function name and where the values are the function’s arguments. Also handles equals-sign-separated argument lists likefilter: alpha(opacity=90);.
Convenience methods
There are a few convenience methods on Document to ease finding, manipulating and deleting rules:
getAllDeclarationBlocks()– does what it says; no matter how deeply nested your selectors are. Aliased asgetAllSelectors().getAllRuleSets()– does what it says; no matter how deeply nested your rule sets are.getAllValues()– finds allValueobjects insideRules.
To-Do
- More convenience methods [like
selectorsWithElement($sId/Class/TagName),attributesOfType($sType),removeAttributesOfType($sType)] - Real multibyte support. Currently only multibyte charsets whose first 255 code points take up only one byte and are identical with ASCII are supported (yes, UTF-8 fits this description).
- Named color support (using
Colorinstead of an anonymous string literal)
Use cases
Use Parser to prepend an id to all selectors
$sMyId = "#my_id";
$oParser = new Sabberworm\CSS\Parser($sText);
$oCss = $oParser->parse();
foreach($oCss->getAllDeclarationBlocks() as $oBlock) {
foreach($oBlock->getSelectors() as $oSelector) {
//Loop over all selector parts (the comma-separated strings in a selector) and prepend the id
$oSelector->setSelector($sMyId.' '.$oSelector->getSelector());
}
}
Shrink all absolute sizes to half
$oParser = new Sabberworm\CSS\Parser($sText);
$oCss = $oParser->parse();
foreach($oCss->getAllValues() as $mValue) {
if($mValue instanceof CSSSize && !$mValue->isRelative()) {
$mValue->setSize($mValue->getSize()/2);
}
}
Remove unwanted rules
$oParser = new Sabberworm\CSS\Parser($sText);
$oCss = $oParser->parse();
foreach($oCss->getAllRuleSets() as $oRuleSet) {
$oRuleSet->removeRule('font-'); //Note that the added dash will make this remove all rules starting with font- (like font-size, font-weight, etc.) as well as a potential font-rule
$oRuleSet->removeRule('cursor');
}
Output
To output the entire CSS document into a variable, just use ->render():
$oCssParser = new Sabberworm\CSS\Parser(file_get_contents('somefile.css'));
$oCssDocument = $oCssParser->parse();
print $oCssDocument->render();
If you want to format the output, pass an instance of type Sabberworm\CSS\OutputFormat:
$oFormat = Sabberworm\CSS\OutputFormat::create()->indentWithSpaces(4)->setSpaceBetweenRules("\n");
print $oCssDocument->render($oFormat);
Or use one of the predefined formats:
print $oCssDocument->render(Sabberworm\CSS\OutputFormat::createPretty());
print $oCssDocument->render(Sabberworm\CSS\OutputFormat::createCompact());
To see what you can do with output formatting, look at the tests in tests/Sabberworm/CSS/OutputFormatTest.php.
Examples
Example 1 (At-Rules)
Input
@charset "utf-8";
@font-face {
font-family: "CrassRoots";
src: url("../media/cr.ttf")
}
html, body {
font-size: 1.6em
}
@keyframes mymove {
from { top: 0px; }
to { top: 200px; }
}
Structure (var_dump())
class Sabberworm\CSS\CSSList\Document#4 (2) {
protected $aContents =>
array(4) {
[0] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Property\Charset#6 (2) {
private $sCharset =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Value\CSSString#5 (2) {
private $sString =>
string(5) "utf-8"
protected $iLineNo =>
int(1)
}
protected $iLineNo =>
int(1)
}
[1] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\RuleSet\AtRuleSet#7 (4) {
private $sType =>
string(9) "font-face"
private $sArgs =>
string(0) ""
private $aRules =>
array(2) {
'font-family' =>
array(1) {
[0] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Rule\Rule#8 (4) {
private $sRule =>
string(11) "font-family"
private $mValue =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Value\CSSString#9 (2) {
private $sString =>
string(10) "CrassRoots"
protected $iLineNo =>
int(4)
}
private $bIsImportant =>
bool(false)
protected $iLineNo =>
int(4)
}
}
'src' =>
array(1) {
[0] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Rule\Rule#10 (4) {
private $sRule =>
string(3) "src"
private $mValue =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Value\URL#11 (2) {
private $oURL =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Value\CSSString#12 (2) {
private $sString =>
string(15) "../media/cr.ttf"
protected $iLineNo =>
int(5)
}
protected $iLineNo =>
int(5)
}
private $bIsImportant =>
bool(false)
protected $iLineNo =>
int(5)
}
}
}
protected $iLineNo =>
int(3)
}
[2] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\RuleSet\DeclarationBlock#13 (3) {
private $aSelectors =>
array(2) {
[0] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Property\Selector#14 (2) {
private $sSelector =>
string(4) "html"
private $iSpecificity =>
NULL
}
[1] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Property\Selector#15 (2) {
private $sSelector =>
string(4) "body"
private $iSpecificity =>
NULL
}
}
private $aRules =>
array(1) {
'font-size' =>
array(1) {
[0] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Rule\Rule#16 (4) {
private $sRule =>
string(9) "font-size"
private $mValue =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Value\Size#17 (4) {
private $fSize =>
double(1.6)
private $sUnit =>
string(2) "em"
private $bIsColorComponent =>
bool(false)
protected $iLineNo =>
int(9)
}
private $bIsImportant =>
bool(false)
protected $iLineNo =>
int(9)
}
}
}
protected $iLineNo =>
int(8)
}
[3] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\CSSList\KeyFrame#18 (4) {
private $vendorKeyFrame =>
string(9) "keyframes"
private $animationName =>
string(6) "mymove"
protected $aContents =>
array(2) {
[0] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\RuleSet\DeclarationBlock#19 (3) {
private $aSelectors =>
array(1) {
[0] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Property\Selector#20 (2) {
private $sSelector =>
string(4) "from"
private $iSpecificity =>
NULL
}
}
private $aRules =>
array(1) {
'top' =>
array(1) {
[0] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Rule\Rule#21 (4) {
private $sRule =>
string(3) "top"
private $mValue =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Value\Size#22 (4) {
private $fSize =>
double(0)
private $sUnit =>
string(2) "px"
private $bIsColorComponent =>
bool(false)
protected $iLineNo =>
int(13)
}
private $bIsImportant =>
bool(false)
protected $iLineNo =>
int(13)
}
}
}
protected $iLineNo =>
int(13)
}
[1] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\RuleSet\DeclarationBlock#23 (3) {
private $aSelectors =>
array(1) {
[0] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Property\Selector#24 (2) {
private $sSelector =>
string(2) "to"
private $iSpecificity =>
NULL
}
}
private $aRules =>
array(1) {
'top' =>
array(1) {
[0] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Rule\Rule#25 (4) {
private $sRule =>
string(3) "top"
private $mValue =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Value\Size#26 (4) {
private $fSize =>
double(200)
private $sUnit =>
string(2) "px"
private $bIsColorComponent =>
bool(false)
protected $iLineNo =>
int(14)
}
private $bIsImportant =>
bool(false)
protected $iLineNo =>
int(14)
}
}
}
protected $iLineNo =>
int(14)
}
}
protected $iLineNo =>
int(12)
}
}
protected $iLineNo =>
int(1)
}
Output (render())
@charset "utf-8";
@font-face {font-family: "CrassRoots";src: url("../media/cr.ttf");}
html, body {font-size: 1.6em;}
@keyframes mymove {from {top: 0px;}
to {top: 200px;}}
Example 2 (Values)
Input
#header {
margin: 10px 2em 1cm 2%;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, "Gill Sans", sans-serif;
color: red !important;
}
Structure (var_dump())
class Sabberworm\CSS\CSSList\Document#4 (2) {
protected $aContents =>
array(1) {
[0] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\RuleSet\DeclarationBlock#5 (3) {
private $aSelectors =>
array(1) {
[0] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Property\Selector#6 (2) {
private $sSelector =>
string(7) "#header"
private $iSpecificity =>
NULL
}
}
private $aRules =>
array(3) {
'margin' =>
array(1) {
[0] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Rule\Rule#7 (4) {
private $sRule =>
string(6) "margin"
private $mValue =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Value\RuleValueList#12 (3) {
protected $aComponents =>
array(4) {
[0] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Value\Size#8 (4) {
private $fSize =>
double(10)
private $sUnit =>
string(2) "px"
private $bIsColorComponent =>
bool(false)
protected $iLineNo =>
int(2)
}
[1] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Value\Size#9 (4) {
private $fSize =>
double(2)
private $sUnit =>
string(2) "em"
private $bIsColorComponent =>
bool(false)
protected $iLineNo =>
int(2)
}
[2] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Value\Size#10 (4) {
private $fSize =>
double(1)
private $sUnit =>
string(2) "cm"
private $bIsColorComponent =>
bool(false)
protected $iLineNo =>
int(2)
}
[3] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Value\Size#11 (4) {
private $fSize =>
double(2)
private $sUnit =>
string(1) "%"
private $bIsColorComponent =>
bool(false)
protected $iLineNo =>
int(2)
}
}
protected $sSeparator =>
string(1) " "
protected $iLineNo =>
int(2)
}
private $bIsImportant =>
bool(false)
protected $iLineNo =>
int(2)
}
}
'font-family' =>
array(1) {
[0] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Rule\Rule#13 (4) {
private $sRule =>
string(11) "font-family"
private $mValue =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Value\RuleValueList#15 (3) {
protected $aComponents =>
array(4) {
[0] =>
string(7) "Verdana"
[1] =>
string(9) "Helvetica"
[2] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Value\CSSString#14 (2) {
private $sString =>
string(9) "Gill Sans"
protected $iLineNo =>
int(3)
}
[3] =>
string(10) "sans-serif"
}
protected $sSeparator =>
string(1) ","
protected $iLineNo =>
int(3)
}
private $bIsImportant =>
bool(false)
protected $iLineNo =>
int(3)
}
}
'color' =>
array(1) {
[0] =>
class Sabberworm\CSS\Rule\Rule#16 (4) {
private $sRule =>
string(5) "color"
private $mValue =>
string(3) "red"
private $bIsImportant =>
bool(true)
protected $iLineNo =>
int(4)
}
}
}
protected $iLineNo =>
int(1)
}
}
protected $iLineNo =>
int(1)
}
Output (render())
#header {margin: 10px 2em 1cm 2%;font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,"Gill Sans",sans-serif;color: red !important;}
Contributors/Thanks to
- raxbg for contributions to parse
calc, grid lines, and various bugfixes. - westonruter for bugfixes and improvements.
- FMCorz for many patches and suggestions, for being able to parse comments and IE hacks (in lenient mode).
- Lullabot for a patch that allows to know the line number for each parsed token.
- ju1ius for the specificity parsing code and the ability to expand/compact shorthand properties.
- ossinkine for a 150 time performance boost.
- GaryJones for lots of input and http://css-specificity.info/.
- docteurklein for output formatting and
CSSList->remove()inspiration. - nicolopignatelli for PSR-0 compatibility.
- diegoembarcadero for keyframe at-rule parsing.
- goetas for @namespace at-rule support.
- View full list
Misc
- Legacy Support: The latest pre-PSR-0 version of this project can be checked with the
0.9.0tag. - Running Tests: To run all unit tests for this project, run
composer installto install phpunit and use./vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit.
License
PHP-CSS-Parser is freely distributable under the terms of an MIT-style license.
Copyright (c) 2011 Raphael Schweikert, http://sabberworm.com/
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