PHP function to remove comments and spaces

Although the php_strip_whitespace method in php5 can return the PHP source code after removing comments and spaces, for the sake of learning, here is a method of your own that can also remove blanks and comments in the code. The code is as follows:

PHP5 built-in function:

//返回删除注释和空格后的PHP源码
php_strip_whitespace()

Example:

<?php
// PHP comment here
 
/*
 * Another PHP comment
 */
 
echo php_strip_whitespace(__FILE__);
//Newlines are considered whitespace, and are removed too:
do_nothing();
?>

Custom function:

　　/**
 * 去除代码中的空白和注释
 * @param string $content 代码内容
 * @return string
 */
function strip_whitespace($content) {
    $stripStr   = '';
    //分析php源码
    $tokens     = token_get_all($content);
    $last_space = false;
    for ($i = 0, $j = count($tokens); $i < $j; $i++) {
        if (is_string($tokens[$i])) {
            $last_space = false;
            $stripStr  .= $tokens[$i];
        } else {
            switch ($tokens[$i][0]) {
                //过滤各种PHP注释
                case T_COMMENT:
                case T_DOC_COMMENT:
                    break;
                //过滤空格
                case T_WHITESPACE:
                    if (!$last_space) {
                        $stripStr  .= &#39; &#39;;
                        $last_space = true;
                    }
                    break;
                case T_START_HEREDOC:
                    $stripStr .= "<<<THINK\n";
                    break;
                case T_END_HEREDOC:
                    $stripStr .= "THINK;\n";
                    for($k = $i+1; $k < $j; $k++) {
                        if(is_string($tokens[$k]) && $tokens[$k] == &#39;;&#39;) {
                            $i = $k;
                            break;
                        } else if($tokens[$k][0] == T_CLOSE_TAG) {
                            break;
                        }
                    }
                    break;
                default:
                    $last_space = false;
                    $stripStr  .= $tokens[$i][1];
            }
        }
    }
    return $stripStr;
}