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Top 23 PHP Static Analysis Projects
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InfluxDB
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I was tired of PHP's type system. Even with PHPStan and Psalm, there's no substitute for real compile-time guarantees. But I'm also practical - I don't want to pay for a VPS, maintain a server, manage security updates, configure databases, set up backups, and babysit infrastructure when shared hosting costs < $10/month and handles all of that for me.
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One of the tools you can use for formatting your PHP code is PHP CS Fixer. It's an incredibly popular tool and, at the time of writing, has over 214 million downloads on Packagist.
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Psalm
A PHP static analysis tool for finding errors and security vulnerabilities in PHP applications
Project mention: Running Rust Binaries on Shared Hosting: A Practical Approach to Type Safety on a Budget | dev.to | 2025-10-17I was tired of PHP's type system. Even with PHPStan and Psalm, there's no substitute for real compile-time guarantees. But I'm also practical - I don't want to pay for a VPS, maintain a server, manage security updates, configure databases, set up backups, and babysit infrastructure when shared hosting costs < $10/month and handles all of that for me.
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phan
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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PHP Mess Detector
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.
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Stream
Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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PHP Code Sniffer
PHP_CodeSniffer tokenizes PHP files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards.
Project mention: Build a Symfony 7 boilerplate using FrankenPHP, Docker, PostgreSQL and php 8.4 | dev.to | 2024-12-23To do so simply install the runtime/frankenphp-symfony composer package. Then we install the bare minimum for a kick ass developer experience, a linter using Code Sniffer, phpstan as code quality audit tool, Rector to ease and automate code maintenance, some useful Symfony components and package and of course the Doctrine ORM. Here the composer.json file located at the symfony folder root.
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- Project mention: PHPStan: Your Development Best Friend Who Actually Knows PHP Better Than You Do | dev.to | 2025-09-15
Want even more strictness? The phpstan-strict-rules extension adds additional rules for defensive programming, including stricter array handling and more aggressive type checking.
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phpstan-deprecation-rules
PHPStan rules for detecting usage of deprecated classes, methods, properties, constants and traits.
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phpstan-disallowed-calls
PHPStan rules to detect disallowed method & function calls, constant, namespace, attribute & superglobal usages, with powerful rules to re-allow a call or a usage in places where it should be allowed.
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functional
PHP Functional Programming library. Monads, common use functions and generic collections.
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Static Analysis projects in PHP? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | PHP Parser | 17,393 |
| 2 | PHPStan | 13,742 |
| 3 | PHP CS Fixer | 13,400 |
| 4 | Psalm | 5,786 |
| 5 | phan | 5,601 |
| 6 | PHP Mess Detector | 2,406 |
| 7 | PHPCompatibility | 2,268 |
| 8 | PHP Code Sniffer | 1,417 |
| 9 | PHP Architecture Tester | 1,229 |
| 10 | php-language-server | 1,180 |
| 11 | enlightn | 984 |
| 12 | phpstan-strict-rules | 676 |
| 13 | BackwardCompatibilityCheck | 591 |
| 14 | phpmnd | 577 |
| 15 | phpstan-deprecation-rules | 439 |
| 16 | unused-scanner | 430 |
| 17 | Exakat | 379 |
| 18 | psalm-plugin-laravel | 324 |
| 19 | phpstan-disallowed-calls | 320 |
| 20 | phpstan-wordpress | 316 |
| 21 | phpstan-dba | 285 |
| 22 | phpstan-drupal | 206 |
| 23 | functional | 199 |
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