Rector
Instant Upgrades and Automated Refactoring of any PHP 5.3+ code (by rectorphp)
Psalm
A static analysis tool for finding errors in PHP applications (by vimeo)
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| Rector | Psalm | |
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| 112 | 45 | |
| 8,207 | 5,428 | |
| 1.8% | 0.6% | |
| 9.9 | 9.9 | |
| 1 day ago | 1 day ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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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.
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.
Rector
Posts with mentions or reviews of Rector.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-15.
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Rector keeps your PHP code base fresh and perfect
As part of the journey to PHP perfection, you should embrace Rector. It's a amazing, free, and open-source tool for migrations, code quality, type coverage, pushing PHPStan to the highest levels, and yes, it can even auto-fix your existing code! It seamlessly integrates into the CI process, making your development workflow smoother than ever.
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Starting with Rector PHP: Improving Your PHP Code with Automation
Website: https://getrector.com/
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What Would You Do? PHP 8 and WordPress Theme
If you want a speed boost, there's a tool: https://github.com/rectorphp/rector
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How to investigate PHP 8.0 compatibility in my application
Rector can help automating some changes.
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Materials/Topics for Senior dev new to PHP
Yep... Rector
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Upgrading PHP 7.4 to 8.0
I'd also recommend taking a look at Rector to help automate some of this.
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Avoiding empty() in PHP
rector/rector
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7.4 to 8.x upgrade help
https://github.com/rectorphp/rector might be useful.
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Is it too painful to go from 5.2 to 8.2?
You could give rector a try
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PHP Deprecated: mysql_connect()
If you want to upgdate an old project quickly, I recommend checking out Rector, which, among other uses, can quickly update code from older PHP versions.
Psalm
Posts with mentions or reviews of Psalm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-08.
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Laravel code-quality tools
Psalm is a static analysis tool for PHP. Much like PHPStan is to Larastan, Psalm has a plugin called Laravel Psalm that allows you to easily use it in Laravel projects.
- PHP 8.3
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PHP libraries and tools
Psalm: A static analysis tool for finding errors in PHP applications. Plugins: boesing/psalm-plugin-stringf: Psalm plugin to provide more details for sprintf, printf, sscanf and fscanf functions. hectorj/safe-php-psalm-plugin: vimeo/psalm plugin for thecodingmachine/safe. marartner/psalm-no-empty: Psalm plugin to detect usage of empty(). marartner/psalm-strict-equality: Psalm plugin to enforce strict equality. psalm/plugin-phpunit: A PHPUnit plugin for Psalm. psalm/plugin-symfony: Psalm Plugin for Symfony. weirdan/doctrine-psalm-plugin: Stubs to let Psalm understand Doctrine better. ghostwriter/psalm-plugin: Provides an ALL-IN-ONE plugin for Psalm
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PHP-Tokio – Use any async Rust library from PHP
PHP 8 is the best version of PHP yet, and the main reason why it's so good is precisely because it got rid of a huge amount of ugly, legacy behavior.
Upgrading a codebase to PHP 8 is not an insurmountable task, I've upgraded our 1 million SLOC codebase at work in just a few weeks, with the help of tools like https://psalm.dev and our own strict coding standard.
- Devs interesados en aprender
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Top 6 PHP code quality tools 2023
Psalm is a static analysis tool specifically designed for PHP. It performs advanced type inference and checks for various types of errors, including type errors, undefined variables, incorrect function calls, and more. It provides comprehensive code analysis and helps improve code quality and maintainability. Documentation: You can find more information about Psalm, including installation instructions and usage details, in the official repository: Psalm Repository
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Avoiding empty() in PHP
vimeo/psalm
- [Laravel] Maintenant que PHPStorm prend en charge le Psaume et le PHPSTAN, lequel utilisez-vous / recommandez-vous pour les projets Laravel?
- TIL how PHP type hinting works
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Templates available in Yii3.
Static analysis - Psalm .
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Rector and Psalm you can also consider the following projects:
PHP CS Fixer - A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues
PHPStan - PHP Static Analysis Tool - discover bugs in your code without running it!
phan - Phan is a static analyzer for PHP. Phan prefers to avoid false-positives and attempts to prove incorrectness rather than correctness.
Phpactor - Mainly a PHP Language Server with more features than you can shake a stick at
PHPCompatibility - PHP Compatibility check for PHP_CodeSniffer
PHP Code Sniffer - PHP_CodeSniffer tokenizes PHP files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards.
Qodana - 📝 Source repository of Qodana Help
rector-laravel - Rector upgrades rules for Laravel