Abstract Syntactic Tree (AST)

An abstract syntax tree, also called an AST, is a tree representation of the abstract syntactic structure of PHP source code.

It is a representation of the code, that focuses on the syntactic elements that are later executed.

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See Also

• PHP AST viewer

Related

• Parser
• Analysis
• Token
• Homoiconicity
• Hygienic Macro
• Lexical Analysis
• Pattern-Based Analysis
• Semantic Analysis
• ANTLR4
• Code Generation
• Compiler
• Multi-pass Algorithm