script to parse PHP short open tags and convert ones to normal

shellcommand.sh

find project/dir/ -type f -iname "*.php" -exec php -d short_open_tag=On the_script.php {} \;

the_script.php

<?php

$file=$argv[1];
echo "Replacing short open tags in \"$file\"...";

$content = file_get_contents($file);
$tokens = token_get_all($content);
$output = '';

foreach($tokens as $token) {
 if(is_array($token)) {
  list($index, $code, $line) = $token;
  switch($index) {
   case T_OPEN_TAG_WITH_ECHO:
    $output .= '<?php echo ';
    break;
   case T_OPEN_TAG:
    $output .= '<?php ';
    break;
   default:
    $output .= $code;
    break;
  }

 }
 else {
  $output .= $token;
 }
}
file_put_contents($file, $output);

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