Zeshter function remove all comments and docblocks from a given php file or a folder of php files.

zeshter.php

#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php
/**
 * Zeshter function remove all comments and docblocks from a given
 * php file or a folder of php files. Yep, it just mirine into file.
 *
 * @param string|null $path path of a php file or a folder contains php files
 */
function zeshter(?string $path, bool $debugMode = false)
{
    debug("\e[1;34mParsing \e[0;35m{$path}\e[0m...\n", $debugMode);
    if (file_exists($path)) {
        if (is_dir($path)) {
            debug("\e[1;34mParsing directory \e[0;35m{$path}\e[0m...\n", $debugMode);
            $folderContents = opendir($path);
            while (false !== ($file = readdir($folderContents))) {
                if (!in_array($file, [".", ".."])) {
                    zeshter($path . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $file, $debugMode);
                }
            }
            closedir($folderContents);
            debug("\e[1;34mParsing directory \e[0;35m{$path}\e[0m Completed.\n", $debugMode);
        } elseif (is_file($path) && 'php' == pathinfo($path, PATHINFO_EXTENSION)) {
            $fileContents    = file_get_contents($path);
            $newfileContents = '';
            // list of tokens: http://php.net/manual/en/tokens.php
            $toRemoveTokens = [T_COMMENT, T_DOC_COMMENT];
            $tokens = token_get_all($fileContents);
            foreach ($tokens as $token) { // 0: numeric equivallent of token, 1: string value of token
                if (is_array($token)) {
                    if (in_array($token[0], $toRemoveTokens)) { // you can remove someone, just by ignoring him ;)
                        continue;
                    }

                    $newfileContents .= $token[1];
                } else {
                    $newfileContents .= $token;
                }
            }
            file_put_contents($path, $newfileContents);
        }
    } else {
        die("\e[0;31m{$path} does not exists. Please check the path and try again.\e[0m\n");
    }
    debug("\e[1;34mParsing \e[0;35m{$path}\e[0m Completed.\n", $debugMode);
}

/**
 * printout the debug data
 *
 * @param string $s   data to show
 * @param bool   $on  indicate that data must be shown or not
 */
function debug(string $s, bool $on = false)
{
    if ($on) {
        echo $s;
    }
}

$debug = false;

if (!isset($argv[1])) {
    die("Please use program in \e[0;31m{$argv[0]} \e[0;36mdirectory\e[0m format (\e[0;36mdirectory\e[0m is path of folder).\n");
}

if (isset($argv[2])) {
    $debug = true;
}

zeshter($argv[1], $debug);

Thank you for the wonderful function.

Apparently, pull requests are not supported in Github gists (+). Therefore, I would like to ask you kindly take a look at my modification and see if it worth to apply.

FYKI, it will retain the empty line numbers to keep the error logs meaningful to the original development team.

Спасибулички дядь. Мне не пришлось изобретать велосипед, чтобы почистить перед релизом свой код.