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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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A minimal Drupal 9 local development environment
Install Devel, it provides extra developer helpers like admin UI tools and Drush commands, var dumper, web profiler, content generation, ...
phan
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7.4 to 8.x upgrade help
Besides what others have already advised, you can also get Phan to scan your project. Set the target to 8.1 and let it run its analysis. Check GitHub repo and docs there for more verbose instructions: https://github.com/phan/phan/
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Need to write an invoicing script. The old one is PHP/mySQL and nearly 20 years old. Yes, really. What framework should I use?
Phan, php7mar, and php-short-array-syntax-converter for a bonus
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7 Laravel Packages to Improve Coding Standards and Reduce Bugs
Phan is a static analyzer for PHP. Phan prefers to avoid false positives and attempts to prove incorrectness rather than correctness.
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Introducing Phirs (0.1.0), a cross-platform and well-tested user directory path provider library, including cache and config paths
I don't think so. Phoronix Test Suite is a big example. Plus, in the PHP community itself, there are so many CLI apps: Composer, PHPUnit, static analyzers like Phan, just to name a few. Symfony Console component has more than 9k stars, so this should mean PHP is a capable tool for CLI apps.
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Is there any software I can use to check my php code? Preferably CLI. Thanks in advance!
PHPStan as mentioned, there's also psalm and Phan.
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Emotional Rage: any static-typed PHP compilers?
You can use a static analyzer like Phan to lint the project.
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What is a good tool to check codebase compatibility with PHP 8?
- Phan (https://github.com/phan/phan) seems that it can check for backward compatibility but I've yet to find a way to configure it for forward-compatibility
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A minimal Drupal 9 local development environment
Phan
What are some alternatives?
homebrew-php - :beer: Homebrew tap for PHP 5.6 to 8.4. PHP 8.4 is built nightly.
PHPStan - PHP Static Analysis Tool - discover bugs in your code without running it!
drupal-project - :rocket: Composer template for Drupal projects. Quick installation via "composer create-project drupal-composer/drupal-project"
Psalm - A static analysis tool for finding errors in PHP applications
PHP Code Sniffer - PHP_CodeSniffer tokenizes PHP files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards.
PHP CS Fixer - A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues
PHP Mess Detector - PHPMD is a spin-off project of PHP Depend and aims to be a PHP equivalent of the well known Java tool PMD. PHPMD can be seen as an user friendly frontend application for the raw metrics stream measured by PHP Depend.
Rector - Instant Upgrades and Automated Refactoring of any PHP 5.3+ code
PHPCompatibility - PHP Compatibility check for PHP_CodeSniffer
Exakat - The Exakat Engine : smart static analysis for PHP
CodeClimate - Code Climate CLI