Script to quickly generate an aliases.php stub file for the Laravel Framework

GenerateAliases.php

<?php

/*
 * Script to quickly generate the aliases.php stub file
 */

$root_path = realpath(__DIR__ . "/../../.."); // path to the project root directory

$config = preg_replace("/\s+/", "", file_get_contents($root_path . "/config/app.php")); // get the app config and strip all white space

preg_match('/"aliases"=>\[(.*?)\,],/', $config, $matches); // find the aliases array entry

preg_match_all('/"(.*?)\=>(.*?)::class,/', $matches[1], $result); // scrape the array for all alias entries

$stub = "<?php\n\n/*\n * Stub used to help IDE's use the laravel frameworks class alias feature.\n *\n * This file was generated automatically, DO NOT edit it manually.\n */\n"; // PHP file declaration and file header/comment

for($count = count($result[0]), $i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) { // loop over all the alias entries
	$stub .= "\nclass " .  trim($result[1][$i], '"') . " extends " . trim($result[2][$i], '"') . "{}\n"; // create a global dummy class with the alias name that extends the aliased class
}

file_put_contents($root_path . "/stub/aliases.php", rtrim($stub, "\n")); // write the resulting stub to our stub file and let the IDE index the result