phan
Phan is a static analyzer for PHP. Phan prefers to avoid false-positives and attempts to prove incorrectness rather than correctness. (by phan)
PHP Code Sniffer
PHP_CodeSniffer tokenizes PHP files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards. (by squizlabs)
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| phan | PHP Code Sniffer | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 47 | |
| 5,500 | 10,603 | |
| 0.2% | 0.3% | |
| 8.2 | 6.8 | |
| 2 months ago | 28 days ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| MIT License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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.
phan
Posts with mentions or reviews of phan.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-29.
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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
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PHP Code Sniffer
Posts with mentions or reviews of PHP Code Sniffer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-08.
- The Future of PHP_CodeSniffer
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Laravel code-quality tools
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.
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PHP_CodeSniffer update (package name will NOT be changing... just the repo & ownership)
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
- The Future of PHP CodeSniffer
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Top 6 PHP code quality tools 2023
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
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PHP in 2023 - stitcher.io
While you're at it, also include code-style checkers like phpcs, phpmd and/or php-cs-fixer
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how can I know if I am following PSR standards
See https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer
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change versions
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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Your experience switching from vanilla PHP spaghetti/OOP to Symfony?
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What are some alternatives?
When comparing phan and PHP Code Sniffer you can also consider the following projects:
PHPStan - PHP Static Analysis Tool - discover bugs in your code without running it!
PHP CS Fixer - A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues
Psalm - A static analysis tool for finding errors in PHP applications
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
GrumPHP - A PHP code-quality tool
PHPCompatibility - PHP Compatibility check for PHP_CodeSniffer