Convert ASP to PHP code ! simple enough ! :)
Posted on 27th January 2006 by TaggyIf you’ve been around PHP a little, you’ve probably run into asp2php before, an app which attempts to convert ASP 3.0 code (VBScript mainly) to PHP automatically. I’ve mentioned and joked about this stuff before but recently been playing with something that looks serious.
While asp2php is a brave project and I have no wish to knock it, from past experiments found it unconvincing. Yes it delivers something resembling PHP but the real issue is what still remains TODOâ€â€basically an 80/20 thing. And while that is to be expected with any tool of this kind, the problem is there’s no way to control what get’s generated, other than by modifying the C source.
A while back, while looking for tools able to parse PHP1), run into ASPA, developed by Anakreon Mejdi: “ASPA attempts to automate the process of translating asp pages into php. The supported languages are JScript and VbScript.â€Â.
ASPA is written in Java and builds on top of ANTLR, a mature, Open Source parser generator framework. What makes it special, IMO, is it’s fairly easy to control the output PHP by virtue of XML “mapping†files which are loaded at runtime (during conversion). You’ll find this describe a little
