Quality assurance is a key element to make your PHP code clean, simple, easy to maintain, secure and free of bugs ! One of the great tools that you can use to analyse the quality of your PHP code is : PHP Metrics. An open source static analysis tool for PHP, providing a bunch of metrics in one single tool :
- maintainability Index
- Cyclomatic complexity
- Halstead’s metrics
- Lack of cohesion of methods
- Abstraction/Instability
- and more…
A plugin is available to use PHP metrics with PHPStorm IDE, but also it’s easy to integrate it with the open-source continuous integration server Jenkins.
PHP metrics is released under a MIT License, you can get it from github :
wget https://github.com/Halleck45/PhpMetrics/raw/master/build/phpmetrics.phar
chmod +x phpmetrics.phar
mv phpmetrics.phar /usr/local/bin/phpmetrics
Overall it’s a great and neat tool that can help you make high quality code.
