Monday, July 24, 2017

Babel JS babel-preset-php error

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I was just trying the new Babel's babel-preset-php (https://gitlab.com/kornelski/babel-preset-php#php7-to-es7-syntax-translator). I did everything in the README file, I installed the preset with npm i -S babel-preset-php. Then I created a .babelrc file with the following contents;

{     "presets": ["php"] } 

Installed the cli with npm i -g babel-cli. Then I created a simple PHP file that only contains a simple function:

<?php  function addCalculator($x, $y) {     return $x + $y; } 

And tried to run the transpiler with babel number.php -o file.js. But I get an error in the execution of the script:

/home/claudio/Documents/Development/babel/node_modules/babel-preset-php/lib/plugins.js:6         Identifier(p) {                   ^ SyntaxError: Unexpected token ( (While processing preset: "/home/claudio/Documents/Development/babel/node_modules/babel-preset-php/index.js") at Module._compile (module.js:439:25) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10) at Module.load (module.js:356:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12) at Module.require (module.js:364:17) at require (module.js:380:17) at Object.<anonymous> (/home/claudio/Documents/Development/babel/node_modules/babel-preset-php/index.js:1:79) at Module._compile (module.js:456:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10) at Module.load (module.js:356:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12) 

I'm not that experient with nodejs and npm, so any idea on what might be happening?

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Edit: Ok, I just realized that you are calling a public function outside of a class. That's not correct PHP. You can't define a function as public outside of a class. Your PHP code is just wrong.

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