lua2php

A Lua to PHP transpiler.

Usage

CLI

$ yarn add lua2php
$ npx lua2php a.lua

Examples

Visit examples.

Implementation

• Table => (object)["array"=>[......]]
• #a => count(a->array)

Different from Lua5.1

• Can only get the length of a continuous array.
• No loadstring, metatable, user-defined iterator ...
• table, unpack, tostring, print, error, string, pairs, ipairs cannot be used as normal identifiers.
• error can only receive one string argument. Translated to throw new Exception()
• print can only receive one string argument.
• string.sub can only receive one string and two positive integers.
• The value of ... and ..., ... or ... is boolean.
• Multiple return or assignment or for a,b,c in pairs(...)(c is nil) or ... is not supported (except ...=unpack(...))
• No TCO
• The variables captured in closures in the loop are the variables in the last.
• for k, v in pairs(...). There is no +1 when k is a number.

Projects using lua2php

• The Language An experimental programming language.