PlaceholderResolver

Resolves placeholders in license templates with metadata values.

This class replaces placeholders like {{ year }}, {{ author }}, {{ project }}, {{ organization }}, and {{ copyright_holder }} with values from metadata. Unresolved placeholders are removed and excess newlines are normalized.

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• Full name: \FastForward\DevTools\License\PlaceholderResolver
• This class is marked as final and can't be subclassed
• This class implements: \FastForward\DevTools\License\PlaceholderResolverInterface
• This class is a Final class

Methods

resolve

Resolves placeholders in a license template with the provided metadata.

public resolve(string $template, array{year?: int, organization?: string, author?: string, project?: string} $metadata): string

Supported placeholders:

• {{ year }} - The copyright year (defaults to current year)
• {{ organization }} - The organization or vendor name
• {{ author }} - The primary author name or email
• {{ project }} - The project/package name
• {{ copyright_holder }} - Organization or author (organization takes precedence)

Unmatched placeholders are removed, and consecutive blank lines are normalized.

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
$template	string	The license template content with placeholders
$metadata	array{year?: int, organization?: string, author?: string, project?: string}	The metadata values to use for replacement

Return Value:

The template with all resolved placeholders

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