Attention

You can now run different PHP versions per project: Release v3.0.0-beta-0.1

9. Source Code Analysis

This tutorial gives you a general overview how to do static code analysis from within the PHP container.

Table of Contents

9.1. Awesome-ci

Awesome-ci is a collection of tools for analysing your workspace and its files. You can for example check for:

  • git conflicts
  • git ignored files that have not been removed from the git index
  • trailing spaces and newlines
  • non-utf8 files or utf8 files with bom
  • windows line feeds
  • null-byte characters
  • empty files
  • syntax errors for various languages
  • inline css or js code
  • customized regex

Some of the bundled tools even allow for automatic fixing.

See also

awesome-ci

# 1. Enter your PHP container
host> ./bash

# 2. Go to your project folder
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ cd /shared/httpd/my-project

# 3. Run the tools
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ git-conflicts --path=.
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ git-ignored --path=.
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ file-cr --path=.
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ file-crlf --path=.
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ file-empty --path=.

# 4. Run tools with more options
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ syntax-php --path=. --extension=php
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ syntax-php --path=. --shebang=php

# 5. Various syntax checks
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ syntax-bash --path=. --text --extension=sh
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ syntax-css --path=. --text --extension=css
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ syntax-js --path=. --text --extension=js
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ syntax-json --path=. --text --extension=json
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ syntax-markdown --path=. --text --extension=md
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ syntax-perl --path=. --text --extension=pl
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ syntax-php --path=. --text --extension=php
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ syntax-python --path=. --text --extension=python
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ syntax-ruby --path=. --text --extension=rb
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ syntax-scss --path=. --text --extension=scss

9.2. PHPCS

PHPCS is a code style analyser for PHP.

# 1. Enter your PHP container
host> ./bash

# 2. Go to your project folder
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ cd /shared/httpd/my-project

# 3. Run it
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ phpcs .

9.3. ESLint

ESLint is a Javascript static source code analyzer.

See also

ESLint

# 1. Enter your PHP container
host> ./bash

# 2. Go to your project folder
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ cd /shared/httpd/my-project

# 3. Run it
devilbox@php-7.0.20 $ eslint .