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. (by phpmd)
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Phan is a static analyzer for PHP. Phan prefers to avoid false-positives and attempts to prove incorrectness rather than correctness. (by phan)
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PHP Mess Detector | phan | |
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9 | 8 | |
2,286 | 5,495 | |
0.7% | 0.1% | |
8.8 | 8.2 | |
17 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
PHP | PHP | |
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
PHP Mess Detector
Posts with mentions or reviews of PHP Mess Detector.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-18.
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PHP libraries and tools
PHPMD - 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.
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Top 6 PHP code quality tools 2023
PHPMD Mess Detector: PHP Mess Detector PHP Mess Detector identifies potential problems and "code smells" in PHP code. It detects complex code, unused variables, duplicated code blocks, and other issues that may indicate poor code quality. It helps developers refactor and clean up their codebase. Documentation: To explore PHP Mess Detector and understand its usage, refer to the official repository: PHP Mess Detector 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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Underestimated PHP
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Github Actions for Symfony 5 PHPUnit and more
name: Symfony 5 Tests on: push: branches: - main - dev pull_request: jobs: symfony: name: Symfony 5.0 (PHP ${{ matrix.php-versions }}) # https://hub.docker.com/_/ubuntu/ runs-on: ubuntu-latest strategy: fail-fast: true matrix: php-versions: ['7.4'] steps: # https://github.com/actions/checkout (official) - name: Checkout uses: actions/checkout@v2 # https://github.com/shivammathur/setup-php (community) - name: Setup PHP, extensions and composer with shivammathur/setup-php uses: shivammathur/setup-php@verbose with: php-version: ${{ matrix.php-versions }} extensions: mbstring, xml, ctype, iconv, intl, pdo_sqlite, dom, filter, gd, iconv, json, mbstring, pdo # Composer - name: Get composer cache directory id: composer-cache run: echo "::set-output name=dir::$(composer config cache-files-dir)" # https://help.github.com/en/actions/configuring-and-managing-workflows/caching-dependencies-to-speed-up-workflows - name: Cache composer dependencies uses: actions/cache@v1 with: path: ${{ steps.composer-cache.outputs.dir }} key: ${{ runner.os }}-composer-${{ hashFiles('**/composer.lock') }} restore-keys: ${{ runner.os }}-composer- - name: Install Composer dependencies run: composer install --no-progress --no-suggest --prefer-dist --optimize-autoloader # https://github.com/sensiolabs/security-checker - name: Security check installed dependencies uses: symfonycorp/security-checker-action@v2 # https://github.com/chekalsky/phpcs-action (community) - name: Check PSR12 code style (PHP_CodeSniffer) uses: chekalsky/[email protected] with: enable_warnings: true installed_paths: '${{ github.workspace }}/vendor/squizlabs/php_codesniffer' phpcs_bin_path: './vendor/bin/phpcs src --ignore="Migrations/"' # https://github.com/phpmd/phpmd # - name: Analyses PHP Code (PHP Mess Detector) # run: vendor/bin/phpmd src,tests text .phpmd-ruleset.xml # https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan - name: Analyse PHP Code (PHPStan) run: vendor/bin/phpstan analyse src - name: Cache node_modules uses: actions/cache@v1 id: yarn-cache-node-modules with: path: node_modules key: ${{ runner.os }}-yarn-cache-node-modules-${{ hashFiles('**/yarn.lock') }} restore-keys: | ${{ runner.os }}-yarn-cache-node-modules- - name: Yarn install if: steps.yarn-cache-node-modules.outputs.cache-hit != 'true' run: yarn install - name: Yarn build run: yarn run encore production - name: Archive production artifacts uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1 with: name: build path: public/build # Symfony - name: Check the Symfony console run: | php bin/console -V php bin/console about # Tests - name: Run unit and functional tests run: | php bin/phpunit --stop-on-failure # - name: Run Behat/Mink tests # run: | # php vendor/bin/behat
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PHP Static Analysis Tools Review
PHP Mess Detector is a multi-faceted static analysis PHP Tool based on PHP Depend. The kind of problems detected by PHPMD are divided into 5 main categories:
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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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What are some alternatives?
When comparing PHP Mess Detector and phan you can also consider the following projects:
PHPStan - PHP Static Analysis Tool - discover bugs in your code without running it!
PHP Code Sniffer - PHP_CodeSniffer tokenizes PHP files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards.
Psalm - A static analysis tool for finding errors in PHP applications
PHP CS Fixer - A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues
GrumPHP - A PHP code-quality tool
PHP Metrics - Beautiful and understandable static analysis tool for PHP
Rector - Instant Upgrades and Automated Refactoring of any PHP 5.3+ code
PHP Parser - A PHP parser written in PHP
PHPCompatibility - PHP Compatibility check for PHP_CodeSniffer
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