Remove all parameter definitions from container definitions (read: *.xml) and replace the parameters with the actual class names

parameter_removal.php

<?php
use Symfony\Component\Finder\Finder;


require_once('../app/autoload.php');
$finder = new Finder();
$finder->files()->in(__DIR__)->name('*.xml');

// run through all found files 
foreach ($finder as $file) {
    
    // get the file content as a string
    $filecontent = file_get_contents($file);

    // match all parameter entries
    preg_match_all('/<parameter key="(.*)">(.*)<\/parameter>/i', file_get_contents($file), $matches);
    
    // Print the relative path to the file
    print $file->getRelativePathname() . "\n";

    // var_dump($matches);
    
    // run through paramter matches and replace the %class% with the real class name
    foreach ($matches[1] as $index => $paramKey) {
        $filecontent = preg_replace('/%' . $paramKey . '%/i', $matches[2][$index], $filecontent);
    }

    // remove the parameter block
    $filecontent = preg_replace('/<parameters>(.*)<\/parameters>\\n/is', '', $filecontent);

    // save the fresh content
    file_put_contents($file, $filecontent);
}