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PHP Static Analysis Tool - discover bugs in your code without running it!
14K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpstanAlternatives
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Phan is a static analyzer for PHP. Phan prefers to avoid false-positives and attempts to prove incorrectness rather than correctness.
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Next-gen phpDoc parser with support for intersection types and generics
1.5K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpdoc-parser#3
A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues
14K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add PHP-CS-Fixer/PHP-CS-Fixer#4
A PHP parser written in PHP
17K starsFeb 26, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add nikic/PHP-Parser#5
Symfony extension for PHPStan
791 starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpstan-symfony#6
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#7
Extra strict and opinionated rules for PHPStan
699 starsJun 10, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpstan-strict-rules#8
PHPUnit extensions and rules for PHPStan
531 starsJun 8, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add phpstan/phpstan-phpunit#9
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#10
A static analyzer for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C
16K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentOCamlStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add facebook/infer#11
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#12
✔️ PHP Architecture Tester - Easy architecture testing for PHP
1.3K starsMar 17, 2026 pushdevelopmentPHPStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add carlosas/phpat#13
Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. By default it supports the Google Java Style Guide and Sun Code Conventions, but is highly configurable. It can be invoked with an ANT task and a command line program.
9.0K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add checkstyle/checkstyle#14
Go security checker
8.9K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add securego/gosec#15
🔥 ~6x faster, stricter, configurable, extensible, and beautiful drop-in replacement for golint
5.5K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentGoStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add mgechev/revive#16
It's not just a linter that annoys you!
5.7K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add pylint-dev/pylintHow to choose
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