enlightn VS PHP Code Sniffer

Enlightn scans your code to check whether it follows best practices in performance, security, and reliability. It's a paid tool, but it also has free checks you can use. At the time of writing, it has 64 checks in the free version and 128 checks in the paid version. For the purposes of this article, we'll only be using the free version.

There are other tools out there, such as Enlightn and Dependabot, that help you to detect dependencies in your project with security vulnerabilities. But I'd like to think of these types of tools more as being "reactive". By that, I mean that they can alert you of vulnerable dependencies after you've installed them in your project. This can result in you introducing potential security holes into your applications without being aware at first. This is by no means a discredit to any of these types of tools though. Vulnerabilities are always being discovered in frameworks, packages, and libraries. So being able to detect them is a great way to stay on top of your project's security.

In this article, we're going to briefly look at different things to look out for when auditing your app's security, or adding new validation. We'll also look at how you can use "Enlightn" to detect potential mass assignment vulnerabilities.

Checkout laravel enlghtn, scans all dependencies, we have it wired for all prs and nightly on all code bases. https://www.laravel-enlightn.com/

you can also check https://www.laravel-enlightn.com

Uhh did you check the link? It's another product. The security checker is an independent package. The Enlightn Github repo is here and the security checker is here. Lol you were so busy criticizing about emojis, you don't even know what I was talking about.

PHP Insights supports sniffs from PHP CodeSniffer and fixers from PHP CS Fixer. This allows you to add any sniff or fixer as long as it implements PHP_CodeSniffer\Sniffs\Sniff or PhpCsFixer\Fixer\FixerInterface.

I don’t know why but that link keeps reloading the page over and over. This one works for me: https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer/issues/3932

PHP_CodeSniffer is a widely-used tool for enforcing coding standards in PHP. It checks the code against a set of predefined coding standards (such as PSR-12, PSR-2, and many others) and provides reports with violations and recommendations for improvement. Documentation: You can find more information about PHP_CodeSniffer and its usage in the official documentation: PHP_CodeSniffer Repository

While you're at it, also include code-style checkers like phpcs, phpmd and/or php-cs-fixer

See https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer

If you are well-versed in programming then you might wanna take a look at PHPCompatibility. It will scan your codebase at different PHP version rulesets to point out code that needs upgrading. You will be needing PHPCS for this.

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