devilbox/docs/tutorials/static-code-analysis.rst

Static Code Analysis

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

* available_tools * tutorial_work_inside_the_php_container

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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.

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

PHPCS

PHPCS is a code style analyser for PHP.

PHPCS

# 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 .

ESLint

ESLint is a Javascript static source code analyzer.

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 .