Top 23 PHP Static Analysis Projects

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1. PHP Parser

   1 16 17,439 7.6 PHP

   A PHP parser written in PHP

   

2. SaaSHub

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3. PHPStan

   2 71 13,983 9.9 PHP

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

   

   Project mention: Running Rust Binaries on Shared Hosting: A Practical Approach to Type Safety on a Budget | dev.to | 2025-10-17

   I was tired of PHP's type system. Even with PHPStan and Psalm, there's no substitute for real compile-time guarantees. But I'm also practical - I don't want to pay for a VPS, maintain a server, manage security updates, configure databases, set up backups, and babysit infrastructure when shared hosting costs < $10/month and handles all of that for me.

4. PHP CS Fixer

   3 43 13,528 9.8 PHP

   A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues

   

   Project mention: Formatting PHP Code with PHP CS Fixer | dev.to | 2025-12-18

   One of the tools you can use for formatting your PHP code is PHP CS Fixer. It's an incredibly popular tool and, at the time of writing, has over 214 million downloads on Packagist.

5. Psalm

   4 49 5,850 9.1 PHP

   A PHP static analysis tool for finding errors and security vulnerabilities in PHP applications

   

   Project mention: Running Rust Binaries on Shared Hosting: A Practical Approach to Type Safety on a Budget | dev.to | 2025-10-17

   I was tired of PHP's type system. Even with PHPStan and Psalm, there's no substitute for real compile-time guarantees. But I'm also practical - I don't want to pay for a VPS, maintain a server, manage security updates, configure databases, set up backups, and babysit infrastructure when shared hosting costs < $10/month and handles all of that for me.

6. phan

   5 8 5,615 9.9 PHP

   Phan is a static analyzer for PHP. Phan prefers to avoid false-positives and attempts to prove incorrectness rather than correctness.

   

7. PHP Mess Detector

   6 9 2,426 3.0 PHP

   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.

   

8. PHPCompatibility

   7 20 2,290 9.7 PHP

   PHP Compatibility check for PHP_CodeSniffer

   

9. PHP Code Sniffer

   8 49 1,513 9.5 PHP

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

   

10. PHP Architecture Tester

    9 5 1,263 8.2 PHP

    ✔️ PHP Architecture Tester - Easy architecture testing for PHP

    

11. php-language-server

    10 4 1,192 0.0 PHP

    PHP Implementation of the VS Code Language Server Protocol 🆚↔🖥

    

12. phpstan-strict-rules

    11 3 699 7.5 PHP

    Extra strict and opinionated rules for PHPStan

    

    Project mention: PHPStan: Your Development Best Friend Who Actually Knows PHP Better Than You Do | dev.to | 2025-09-15

    Want even more strictness? The phpstan-strict-rules extension adds additional rules for defensive programming, including stricter array handling and more aggressive type checking.

13. BackwardCompatibilityCheck

    12 3 597 9.4 PHP

    :ab: Tool to compare two revisions of a class API to check for BC breaks

    

14. phpmnd

    13 3 583 4.1 PHP

    PHP Magic Number Detector

    

15. phpstan-deprecation-rules

    14 2 454 6.0 PHP

    PHPStan rules for detecting usage of deprecated classes, methods, properties, constants and traits.

    

16. unused-scanner

    15 1 426 0.0 PHP

    Detect unused composer dependencies

    

17. Exakat

    16 0 378 1.8 PHP

    The Exakat Engine : smart static analysis for PHP

    

18. phpstan-disallowed-calls

    17 4 333 7.6 PHP

    PHPStan rules to detect disallowed method & function calls, constant, namespace, attribute, keyword & superglobal usages, with powerful rules to re-allow a call or a usage in places where it should be allowed.

    

19. psalm-plugin-laravel

    18 5 334 9.9 PHP

    Laravel static analysis with built-in security scanning

    

20. phpstan-wordpress

    19 1 330 7.2 PHP

    WordPress extensions for PHPStan ⛏️

    

21. phpstan-dba

    20 3 294 6.4 PHP

    PHPStan based SQL static analysis and type inference for the database access layer

    

22. phpstan-drupal

    21 2 208 8.4 PHP

    Extension for PHPStan to allow analysis of Drupal code.

    

23. functional

    22 4 202 4.6 PHP

    PHP Functional Programming library. Monads, common use functions and generic collections.

    

24. wordpress-stubs

    23 2 199 8.9 PHP

    Up-to-date WordPress function and class declaration stubs for static analysis by PHPStan

    

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