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Phpqa alternatives for AI agents.

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Phpqa

Docker image that provides static analysis tools for PHP

100
Quality
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Trust
1.3K
Stars
#1

Setup Php

Similarity 124Trust 95Excellent 100

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
#2

Phpstan

Similarity 118Trust 95Excellent 100

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

14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpstan
#3

PHP CS Fixer

Similarity 118Trust 95Excellent 100

A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues

14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add PHP-CS-Fixer/PHP-CS-Fixer
#4

PHP Parser

Similarity 118Trust 92Excellent 100

A PHP parser written in PHP

17K starsFeb 26, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add nikic/PHP-Parser
#5

Grype

Similarity 118Trust 94Excellent 100

A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems

12K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/grype
#6

Clair

Similarity 118Trust 94Excellent 100

Vulnerability Static Analysis for Containers

11K starsJun 4, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add quay/clair
#7

Hadolint

Similarity 118Trust 91Excellent 100

Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell

12K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentHaskellStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add hadolint/hadolint
#8

Psalm

Similarity 117Trust 96Excellent 100

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
#9

Syft

Similarity 117Trust 91Excellent 100

CLI tool and library for generating a Software Bill of Materials from container images and filesystems

9.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add anchore/syft
#10

Phan

Similarity 116Trust 91Excellent 98

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
#11

Mago

Similarity 116Trust 94Excellent 100

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
#12

Phpmd

Similarity 116Trust 96Excellent 100

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
#13

Phpdoc Parser

Similarity 114Trust 93Excellent 100

Next-gen phpDoc parser with support for intersection types and generics

1.5K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpdoc-parser
#14

PHP CodeSniffer

Similarity 114Trust 91Excellent 100

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
#15

Php Static Analysis Tools

Similarity 113Trust 87Excellent 95

A reviewed list of useful PHP static analysis tools

2.9K starsMay 7, 2026 pushdevelopmentStatic AnalysisClaude Code
$ npx skills add exakat/php-static-analysis-tools
#16

PHP CodeSniffer

Similarity 113Trust 84Strong 82

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

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