Performant static analyzer for PHP, which is extremely easy to use. It helps you catch common mistakes in your PHP code.

The simplest way to install Phanalist is to use the installation script.

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/denzyldick/phanalist/main/bin/init.sh | sh

It will automatically download the executable for your platform:

$ ~/phanalist -V
phanalist 1.0.0

There are also multiple other installation options.

To analyze your project sources, you just need to run phanalist:

~/phanalist

On the first run phanalist.yaml will be created with the default configurations. And it will be reused on all the following runs.

There are also a few additional parameters:

• config: path to the configuration file, ./phanalist.yaml is default value.
• src: path to project sources, ./src is default value.
• output-format: format used to output the results. Possible options are text (default), json and sarif.
• summary-only: output only amounts of found violations for each rule.
• quiet: suppresses all the output.

The possible options are:

• enabled_rules contains the list of rules to use. All rules will be used if this list is empty.
• disable_rules contains the list of rules to ignore.
• rules rule-specific options.

The default configuration file is:

enabled_rules: []
disable_rules: []
rules:
  E0007:
    check_constructor: true
    max_parameters: 5
  E0009:
    max_complexity: 10
  E0010:
    max_paths: 200
  E0012:
    include_namespaces:
      - "App\\Service\\"
      - "App\\Controller\\"
    exclude_namespaces: []

The following rules are available:

Adding a new rule is a simple task, and this tutorial explains how to do it.

Read a series of chapters on https://dev.to/denzyldick to understand the project's internals. It is a great, easy-to-read introduction to this project.

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2. How I made it impossible to write spaghetti code.
3. Detecting spaghetti code in AST of a PHP source code.
4. Getting Symfony app ready for Swoole, RoadRunner, and FrankenPHP (no AI involved).
5. Improve your CI output
6. Why using unserialize in PHP is a bad idea