Description
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.
PHP Mess Detector alternatives and similar libraries
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phan
Phan is a static analyzer for PHP. Phan prefers to avoid false-positives and attempts to prove incorrectness rather than correctness. -
Code Climate
DISCONTINUED. Multi-language code linter, auto-formatter, and security scanner [Moved to: https://github.com/qltysh/qlty] -
Better Reflection
:crystal_ball: Better Reflection is a reflection API that aims to improve and provide more features than PHP's built-in reflection API. -
PHP Code Sniffer
PHP_CodeSniffer tokenizes PHP files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards. -
PHP Semantic Versioning Checker
Compares two source sets and determines the appropriate semantic versioning to apply. -
PHPCheckstyle
PHPCheckstyle is an open-source tool that helps PHP programmers adhere to certain coding conventions.
Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video.

* Code Quality Rankings and insights are calculated and provided by Lumnify.
They vary from L1 to L5 with "L5" being the highest.
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