Php to Ruby compilation software

Hello, we just researched a Php to Ruby compilation software,
because our client has some Php Project,
and that can accelarates their transition to rails,
and there are a lot of php projects out there, both open sourced and
close
sourced,
so this software may be helpful to accelarates the changes from php
world to
ruby’s world.
(Besides, some clouds, like VMWare cloudfoundry supports rails now, you
can
compile your php’s
project into rails and runs ontop of it).

This project compiles php code to ruby code as close as possbile,
so the following php code would compile to this code,
$instanceName = ‘db’;
$config = $sugar_config[‘dbconfig’];
if(!isset($dbinstances)){
$dbinstances = array();
}
//fall back to the default instance name
if(empty($sugar_config[‘db’][$instanceName])){
$instanceName = ‘’;
}
if(!isset($dbinstances[$instanceName])){
$my_db_manager = ‘MysqlManager’;
if( $config[‘db_type’] == “mysql” ) {
if ((!isset($sugar_config[‘mysqli_disabled’])
|| $sugar_config[‘mysqli_disabled’] ==
false)
&& function_exists(‘mysqli_connect’)) {
$my_db_manager = ‘MysqliManager’;
}
}
if( $config[‘db_type’] == “oci8” ){
}
elseif( $config[‘db_type’] == “mssql” ){
if ( function_exists(‘sqlsrv_connect’)
&& (empty($config[‘db_mssql_force_driver’]) ||
$config[‘db_mssql_force_driver’] == ‘sqlsrv’ ))
$my_db_manager = ‘SqlsrvManager’;
elseif (is_freetds()
&& (empty($config[‘db_mssql_force_driver’]) ||
$config[‘db_mssql_force_driver’] == ‘freetds’ ))
$my_db_manager = ‘FreeTDSManager’;
else
$my_db_manager = ‘MssqlManager’;
}
$GLOBALS[‘log’]->info(“using $my_db_manager DBManager
backend”);
if(!empty($config[‘db_manager’])){
$my_db_manager = $config[‘db_manager’];
}

            require_once("include/database/{$my_db_manager}.php");
            $dbinstances[$instanceName] = new $my_db_manager();
            $dbinstances[$instanceName]->getHelper();
            $dbinstances[$instanceName]->connect($config, true);
            $dbinstances[$instanceName]->count_id = $count;
            $dbinstances[$instanceName]->references = 0;
            $dbinstances[$instanceName]->getHelper()->db =

$dbinstances[$instanceName];
}
else {
$old_count++;
$dbinstances[$instanceName]->references = $old_count;
}
#to this ruby code
_VARS[“instanceName”] = “db”
_VARS[“config”] = ((_VARS[“sugar_config”] ||= { }))[“dbconfig”]
if (not isset(_VARS[“dbinstances”]).php_true_value).php_true_value
then
_VARS[“dbinstances”] = PhpArray.new
end
if empty((((_VARS[“sugar_config”] ||= { })[“db”] ||= {
}))[_VARS[“instanceName”]]).php_true_value then
_VARS[“instanceName”] = “”
end
if (not isset(((_VARS[“dbinstances”] ||= {
}))[_VARS[“instanceName”]]).php_true_value).php_true_value then
_VARS[“my_db_manager”] = “MysqlManager”
if (((_VARS[“config”] ||= { }))[“db_type”] ==
“mysql”).php_true_value
then
if (((not isset(((_VARS[“sugar_config”] ||= {
}))[“mysqli_disabled”]).php_true_value).php_true_value or
(((_VARS[“sugar_config”] ||= { }))[“mysqli_disabled”] ==
false).php_true_value).php_true_value and self.function_exists(binding,
“mysqli_connect”).php_true_value).php_true_value then
_VARS[“my_db_manager”] = “MysqliManager”
end
end
if (((_VARS[“config”] ||= { }))[“db_type”] ==
“oci8”).php_true_value
then
nil
else
if (((_VARS[“config”] ||= { }))[“db_type”] == “mssql”) then
if (self.function_exists(binding,
“sqlsrv_connect”).php_true_value
and (empty(((_VARS[“config”] ||= {
}))[“db_mssql_force_driver”]).php_true_value or (((_VARS[“config”] ||=
{
}))[“db_mssql_force_driver”] ==
“sqlsrv”).php_true_value).php_true_value).php_true_value then
_VARS[“my_db_manager”] = “SqlsrvManager”
else
if (self.is_freetds(binding).php_true_value and
(empty(((_VARS[“config”] ||= {
}))[“db_mssql_force_driver”]).php_true_value
or (((_VARS[“config”] ||= { }))[“db_mssql_force_driver”] ==
“freetds”).php_true_value).php_true_value) then
_VARS[“my_db_manager”] = “FreeTDSManager”
else
_VARS[“my_db_manager”] = “MssqlManager”
end
end
end
end
_GLOBALS[“log”].info(binding, “using #{_VARS[“my_db_manager”]}
DBManager backend”)
if (not empty(((_VARS[“config”] ||= {
}))[“db_manager”]).php_true_value).php_true_value then
_VARS[“my_db_manager”] = ((_VARS[“config”] ||= {
}))[“db_manager”]
end
_require_once(“include/database/#{_VARS[“my_db_manager”]}.php”,
binding)
(_VARS[“dbinstances”] ||= { })[_VARS[“instanceName”]] =
HomeController.const_get(_VARS[“my_db_manager”]).new(binding)
((_VARS[“dbinstances”] ||= {
}))[_VARS[“instanceName”]].getHelper(binding)
((_VARS[“dbinstances”] ||= {
}))[_VARS[“instanceName”]].connect(binding, _VARS[“config”], true)
((_VARS[“dbinstances”] ||= { }))[_VARS[“instanceName”]].count_id

_VARS[“count”]
((_VARS[“dbinstances”] ||= {
}))[_VARS[“instanceName”]].references =
0
((_VARS[“dbinstances”] ||= {
}))[_VARS[“instanceName”]].getHelper(binding).db =
((_VARS[“dbinstances”]
||= { }))[_VARS[“instanceName”]]
else
_VARS[“old_count”] = _VARS[“old_count”].+(1)
((_VARS[“dbinstances”] ||= {
}))[_VARS[“instanceName”]].references =
_VARS[“old_count”]
end

So we are going to release this to public.
$2500, one license ,up to 5 people’s use.
Anybody Interested? Talk to me.
my gmail is just this.

Best Regards.
femto

That’s probably the ugliest ruby code I’ve ever seen.

Yes,it’s self compiled,
why using _VARS, and not directly local_variables?
because php has some weird var logic,
like say
$a =1;
echo $GLOBALS[“a”]; //this is 1, it automaticly affects entry in
$GLOBALS, and in the opposite direction,

$GLOBALS[“a”]=1;
echo $a; //now $a is 1, which is really unfornate.

not to mention some indirect variable access.

like
$a=1;
$c=“a”;
echo $$c; // this is 1, or
$$c = 2; //if affects $a,$GLOBALS[“a”], which is unfornate,
all the ugliness is to handle php’s weird behavior.

and
$a=null;
$a[“db”][“config”]=1;
//all of a sudden $a contains something, while in ruby it
NullException: throws undefined method `[]’ for nil:NilClass
//in php is quite valid, and used everywhere, which is unfornate.

it’s not a good idea

2011/5/3 femto [email protected]

why using _VARS, and not directly local_variables?

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On 4 May 2011 02:22, femto [email protected] wrote:

Yes,it’s self compiled,

It’s not “compiled”. It’s Ruby - Ruby is an interpreted language, and
the deformed Ruby code you’ve posted there is interpreted when it’s
run.

On May 4, 9:15am, Tim S. [email protected] wrote:

That’s probably the ugliest ruby code I’ve ever seen.

+1

Anyway, it doesn’t matter, as it has nothing to do with Rails -
turning unmanageable, procedural PHP scripts into unreadable,
unmaintainable Ruby is hardly going to be of any use to any Rails
user. If you have an existing PHP app you want implemented in Rails,
you would be much better of redesigning it to run properly with
Rails and Ruby idioms, not trying to shoehorn a hideous, rough
equivalent translation from the PHP scripts.

I can’t imagine any reasons why someone would want to do this. So in
answer to you first question, I’m not interested for $2,500 - even if
you were offering to pay me that to use it.

+1 this is a very bad idea.

From what I understand this is sold as a tool for reusing custom PHP
code
while you are rewriting your application in rails. How do you believe
generating Ruby code will help in this? It’s seems a bit backwards. If
you
wanted to reuse code, shouldn’t you be calling that code natively from
your
Ruby code? Maybe using a JSON interface? That is of cause assuming the
PHP
code is modular to begin with.

Best,
Andy

Hello all, because most of php’s application is feature rich than
rails’s existing offer,
like say, crm solutions, sugarcrm,
I know rails have similar offering,( fat_free_crm), but unfornately,
this is really far
from the feature sugarcrm offers,
sugarcrm has been developed since 2004, all 7 years, and has been
funded
$2 million in venture capital, I just don’t think anyone could port
that easily in
a short time frame.

for hand-rewritten the php’s application, well, that’s at least
theoretically,
I’ve done that before, that’s quite time-consuming and error-prone.

On May 4, 3:47pm, Andreas Saebjoernsen

On May 4, 4:57am, femto [email protected] wrote:

a short time frame.

I’m still quite unclear on why one would want to rewrite a complete
package like SugarCRM in Ruby; after all, PHP is supported practically
anywhere there’s a web server, and any package big enough to be worth
translating is likely to have an extension API. Further, it’s not like
it’s going to be simple to extend the spaghetti that the translation
produces in Ruby…

I’m also curious how this approach compares to that of the phuby
library (https://github.com/tenderlove/phuby) which provides a PHP
runtime to Ruby code.

–Matt J.

On 4 May 2011 02:22, femto [email protected] wrote:

Yes,it’s self compiled,
why using _VARS, and not directly local_variables?
because php has some weird var logic,
like say

$GLOBALS[“a”]=1;
echo $a; //now $a is 1, which is really unfornate.

This is because you’re at the top-level namespace. The PHP script
example is badly-written in the first place, and the Ruby code it’s
translated into is … well, I hesitate to use the words on a public,
international forum :-/

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:55 PM, femto Zheng [email protected] wrote:

    }
        }
                $my_db_manager = 'MssqlManager';
            $dbinstances[$instanceName]->connect($config, true);

_VARS[“instanceName”] = “db”
_VARS[“my_db_manager”] = “MysqlManager”
if (((_VARS[“config”] ||= { }))[“db_type”] == “oci8”).php_true_value
else
end
((_VARS[“dbinstances”] ||= {
else
_VARS[“old_count”] = _VARS[“old_count”].+(1)
((_VARS[“dbinstances”] ||= { }))[_VARS[“instanceName”]].references =
_VARS[“old_count”]
end

So we are going to release this to public.
$2500, one license ,up to 5 people’s use.

Eeeeeeewwwwww. That looks worse than my early days in TSQL where I
decided
to put app logic in the db, cursors and all. Just rewrite it if it is
that
important, I mean what do you gain really if you convert to ruby but you
have to maintain this unless you have Rainman or someone on staff. Does
the
magic box also write tests for you?

Femto Zheng wrote in post #996564:

Hello all, because most of php’s application is feature rich than
rails’s existing offer,
like say, crm solutions, sugarcrm,
I know rails have similar offering,( fat_free_crm), but unfornately,
this is really far
from the feature sugarcrm offers,
sugarcrm has been developed since 2004, all 7 years, and has been
funded
$2 million in venture capital, I just don’t think anyone could port
that easily in
a short time frame.

for hand-rewritten the php’s application, well, that’s at least
theoretically,
I’ve done that before, that’s quite time-consuming and error-prone.

Possibly time-consuming, yes. Error-prone depends on the tests that are
in place… But the generated Ruby you show above would cause most
Rubyists to flee (at least I would).

If the entire application is translated with that amount of syntactic
noise, what is your maintenance path? Edit the original php
application, then translate again?!?

I’m not knocking your accomplishment (Lord knows I’ve written code that
writes some awfully ugly code), but there a wide gap between
syntactic/semantic correctness and syntactic/semantic “elegance”, and I
think the “elegance” attribute is what has drawn many people to Ruby.

Yes, quite agree.
‘But the generated Ruby you show above would cause most
Rubyists to flee.’
Yes, I agree. If without those bizarre php’s variable behavior,
I would just compile local variable to local variable,

‘I’m still quite unclear on why one would want to rewrite a complete
package like SugarCRM in Ruby; after all, PHP is supported practically
anywhere there’s a web server, and any package big enough to be worth
translating is likely to have an extension API. Further, it’s not like
it’s going to be simple to extend the spaghetti that the translation
produces in Ruby…’

First, we all agree that php’s valid code,

public function getHelper()
{

    if ( !($this->helper instanceof DBHelper) ) {
        global $sugar_config;

        switch ( $sugar_config['dbconfig']['db_type'] ) {
        case "mysql":
            $my_db_helper = 'MysqlHelper';
            if ( (!isset($sugar_config['mysqli_disabled'])
                        || $sugar_config['mysqli_disabled'] == 

false)
&& function_exists(‘mysqli_connect’) )
$my_db_helper = ‘MysqliHelper’;
break;
case “mssql”:
if ( function_exists(‘sqlsrv_connect’)
&& (empty($config[‘db_mssql_force_driver’]) ||
$config[‘db_mssql_force_driver’] == ‘sqlsrv’ ))
$my_db_helper = ‘SqlsrvHelper’;
elseif (is_freetds()
&& (empty($config[‘db_mssql_force_driver’]) ||
$config[‘db_mssql_force_driver’] == ‘freetds’ ))
$my_db_helper = ‘FreeTDSHelper’;
else
$my_db_helper = ‘MssqlHelper’;
break;
default:
$my_db_helper = ‘MysqlHelper’;
}
$GLOBALS[‘log’]->info(“using $my_db_helper DBHelper
backend”);
require_once(“include/database/{$my_db_helper}.php”);
$this->helper = new $my_db_helper();
$this->helper->db = $this;
}

    return $this->helper;
}

is perfectly beatiful, if php can support no ‘$’ before variable.
before doing this project I think php is stupid language, but after this
I change my mind, actually php’s code is quite well written and
encapsulated(if without that ‘$’). That’s no wonder why DHH, who’s
background is php, comes to ruby and writes out Rails, but no somebody
that with a java background comes to ruby and writes out Rails,that’s
not
without
a reason. Because php’s just syntax noise more than ruby. Many mental
position
is still good.ps, we all know ajax right, coined by Jesse James Garrett,
after
that people know ajax, but before which the xmlhttp just exists there
many
years
and going unnoticed.same for the php, php exists there many years and
neglected
by rails’ guy and think it’s spaghetti code.

For phuby you mentioned, I’ved checked out,
it says it requires php, it still needs you to download and compiles
php-5.3.0 to your box, so it’s a simple wrapper around php?
the final code is still php?
No, our goal is makes your code Ruby/Rails,
say you download a simple php project, and puts it into your disk,

e:\php-project\sugarcrm,
and then you just fire a up a rails application
and config.host = “e:\php-project\sugarcrm”
and it runs.It will compiles your accessed php file and to a related
.rb file

so for the compilation part,
if you think _VARS[“a”] perfectly equal to $a or(a in ruby’s sense),
the ||={} is just coping with php’s accessing optionally equals to hash,
then the whole mental model would be very simple.after that, when the
whose system can be running, then you can simply change/extend a
certain point,
we all know ruby’s quite easy to extend, so may you put your custom
code in some /custom/include/dbmanger.rb
and requires that, (or you may wan to more put into rails
folder,app/controller/model or something)
self.helper = sugar_config[‘dbconfig’][‘db_type’] + ‘Helper’ if
[“mysql,mssql”].include?(sugar_config[‘dbconfig’][‘db_type’])

Just like I claimed, tons of tons good stuff/wealth buries in php,
like say,
cssmin:

class cssmin
{
public static function minify($css, $options = “remove-last-semicolon”)
{
$options = ($options == “”) ? array() : (is_array($options) ? $options :
explode(“,”, $options));
if (in_array(“preserve-urls”, $options))
{
// Encode url() to base64
$css = preg_replace_callback(“/url\s*((.))/siU", “cssmin_encode_url”,
$css);
}
// Remove comments
$css = preg_replace("//*[\d\D]
?*/|\t+/”, " “, $css);
// Replace CR, LF and TAB to spaces
$css = str_replace(array(”\n", “\r”, “\t”), " “, $css);
// Replace multiple to single space
$css = preg_replace(”/\s\s+/“, " “, $css);
// Remove unneeded spaces
$css = preg_replace(”/\s*({|}|[|=|~|+|>|||;|:|,)\s*/”, “$1”, $css);
if (in_array(“remove-last-semicolon”, $options))
{
// Removes the last semicolon of every style definition
$css = str_replace(“;}”, “}”, $css);
}
$css = trim($css);
if (in_array(“preserve-urls”, $options))
{
// Decode url()
$css = preg_replace_callback(“/url\s*((.*))/siU”, “cssmin_encode_url”,
$css);
}
return $css;
}
I know there’ll be a ruby equivalent, I am just giving an example,
what if there’s not a cssmin funtionality, but some other
fancy funtionality?

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Ar Chron [email protected] wrote:

that easily in

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because our client has some NDA agreement, and I think I can use
sugarcrm
as the example, consider you have some project large like this,
50+ files, every file more than several thousand lines,
after that you just go crazy. not to whether you’re writing extension
points
for it.
And handling customized ORM rules, things like adding a
field/relation/in
ui,
than the database will be filled with one more table, say your table is
Contract,
and the adding fields would be added to Contract_cust, and your ORM
takes
care
of that, I just don’t think ActiveRecord copes that well.

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:01 AM, femto Zheng [email protected] wrote:

translating is likely to have an extension API. Further, it’s not like

                    && (empty($config['db_mssql_force_driver']) ||
            $my_db_helper = 'MysqlHelper';

before doing this project I think php is stupid language, but after this
years
say you download a simple php project, and puts it into your disk,
then the whole mental model would be very simple.after that, when the
like say,
// Encode url() to base64
$css = preg_replace(“/\s*({|}|[|=|~|+|>|||;|:|,)\s*/”, “$1”, $css);
$css);

Femto Zheng wrote in post #996564:

a short time frame.
If the entire application is translated with that amount of syntactic


http://hi.baidu.com/femto
http://www.aisiming.com/


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