Safe VS Rector

Compare Safe vs Rector and see what are their differences.

Safe

All PHP functions, rewritten to throw exceptions instead of returning false (by thecodingmachine)
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Safe Rector
7 112
2,305 8,188
0.8% 1.5%
0.6 9.9
2 days ago 7 days ago
PHP PHP
MIT License MIT License
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Safe

Posts with mentions or reviews of Safe. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-18.

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Safe and Rector you can also consider the following projects:

PHP Dotenv - Loads environment variables from `.env` to `getenv()`, `$_ENV` and `$_SERVER` automagically.

PHP CS Fixer - A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues

Symfony VarDumper - Provides mechanisms for walking through any arbitrary PHP variable

PHPStan - PHP Static Analysis Tool - discover bugs in your code without running it!

Expose - A beautiful, fully open-source, tunneling service - written in pure PHP

Phpactor - Mainly a PHP Language Server with more features than you can shake a stick at

phpstan-safe-rule - A PHPStan rule to be used with the thecodingmachine/safe package

PHP Code Sniffer - PHP_CodeSniffer tokenizes PHP files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards.

Symfony Dotenv - Registers environment variables from a .env file

Psalm - A static analysis tool for finding errors in PHP applications

Yo! Symfony TOML - A PHP parser for TOML

PHPCompatibility - PHP Compatibility check for PHP_CodeSniffer