Top 6 PHP static-code-analysis Projects

PHPStan

59 12,526 9.9 PHP

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

Project mention: Rector keeps your PHP code base fresh and perfect | dev.to | 2024-03-15

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.
phan

8 5,495 8.2 PHP

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

Project mention: 7.4 to 8.x upgrade help | /r/PHP | 2023-04-29

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/
InfluxDB

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phpstan-strict-rules

2 556 6.4 PHP

Extra strict and opinionated rules for PHPStan
phpstan-deprecation-rules

1 351 6.3 PHP

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

1 312 2.6 PHP

A static analysis tool for security
tombstone

3 255 6.1 PHP

Dead code detection with tombstones for PHP 🪦🧟

Project mention: PHP libraries and tools | dev.to | 2023-10-18

scheb/tombstone: Dead code detection with tombstones for PHP

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-03-15.