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PHP Static Analysis Tool - discover bugs in your code without running it!
14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
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A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues
14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add PHP-CS-Fixer/PHP-CS-Fixer#3
A PHP parser written in PHP
17K starsFeb 26, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add nikic/PHP-Parser#4
A PHP static analysis tool for finding errors and security vulnerabilities in PHP applications
5.9K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add vimeo/psalm#5
Phan is a static analyzer for PHP. Phan prefers to avoid false-positives and attempts to prove incorrectness rather than correctness.
5.6K starsMay 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phan/phan#6
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.
2.4K starsMay 23, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpmd/phpmd#7
Next-gen phpDoc parser with support for intersection types and generics
1.5K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpdoc-parser#8
PHP_CodeSniffer tokenizes PHP files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards.
1.5K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer#9
✔️ PHP Architecture Tester - Easy architecture testing for PHP
1.3K starsMar 17, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add carlosas/phpat#10
PHP_CodeSniffer tokenizes PHP files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards.
11K starsApr 1, 2024 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer#11
A static code analysis tool for the Elixir language with a focus on code consistency and teaching.
5.2K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdevelopmentElixirStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add rrrene/credo#12
SpotBugs is FindBugs' successor. A tool for static analysis to look for bugs in Java code.
3.9K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add spotbugs/spotbugs#13
GitHub action to set up PHP with extensions, php.ini configuration, coverage drivers, and various tools.
3.2K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentTypeScriptStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add shivammathur/setup-php#14
Mago is a toolchain for PHP that aims to provide a set of tools to help developers write better code.
3.2K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add carthage-software/mago#15
An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.
5.4K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pmd/pmd#16
Symfony extension for PHPStan
791 starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
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