Super dirty code used to transform comments into beautiful L5-like comments. Used with Alfred

comments.php

<?php

$query = $argv[1];

$lastchar = $query[strlen($query) - 1];
if ( ! in_array($lastchar, ['.', '!', '?', ';'])) {
    $query .= '.';
}

if (($strlen = strlen($query)) > 75) {
    $words = explode(' ', $query);
    $sentence = [];

    // We now have an array of words, by char
    foreach ($words as $word) {
        $sentence[] = str_split($word);
    }

    exit(getRows($sentence));
} else {
    exit($query);
}

function getRows(array $sentence, $max_per_row = 75, $best_try = null)
{
    if ($max_per_row < 50) {
        return $best_try;
    }
    $current_limit = $max_per_row;
    $temp = '';
    $current_line_count = 0;
    $current_line = 1;
    $force_recurse = false;
    // We will iterate over each until we are over the limit of 75 chars
    for ($i = 0; $i <= count($sentence) - 1; $i++) {
        $word = $sentence[$i];
        // If the word is way too big
        if (count($word) >= $current_limit) {
            // Then the current word should be on its own line
            if ($current_line_count > 0) {
                $temp .= "\n";
                $current_line++;
                $current_line_count = 0;
            }
            $temp .= implode('', $word)."\n";
            $current_line++;

            continue;
        }

        if ($current_line_count + count($word) > $current_limit) {
            // Check how long there is blank
            if (($current_line_count / $current_limit) <= 0.75) { // At least 50% is blank
                $force_recurse = true;
                break;
            }
            // The next word is too long for the line
            $current_limit = $current_line_count - 2; // 1 to remove the whitespace, and another one to make it smaller
            $current_line_count = 0;
            $current_line++;
            $temp = trim($temp);
            $temp .= "\n";
        }

        $temp .= implode('', $word).' ';
        $current_line_count += count($word) + 1; // To add the whitespace
    }

    if ($force_recurse || (($current_line_count - 1) / $current_limit) <= 0.75) {
        return getRows($sentence, $max_per_row - 2, $temp);
    } else {
        return trim($temp);
    }
}

Examples.md

Feed it this comment:

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It will return this:

Here is where you can register API routes for your application. These
routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
is assigned the "api" middleware group. Enjoy building your API!

You can then format it using whatever IDE you like:

/**
 * Here is where you can register API routes for your application. These
 * routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
 * is assigned the "api" middleware group. Enjoy building your API!
 */