Manuel Pichler announced today the availability of PHP Depend 0.9.6, the software metrics for PHP. The new release provides many bug fixes and improvements. Manuel started migrating PHP_Depend’s internal system from plain Token object to an Abstract Syntax Tree and that’s the main feature behind this release.
PHP Depend is software analyzer and metric tool which aims to provide many useful information about a specified PHP project. The software rely on @package and @subpackage annotation in the code to generate a summary xml file, in addition to two SVG charts : a JDepend like chart and a pyramid visualization of the summary xml file. Based on these information you can measure the quality of a software project and identify parts of the code that should be refactored.
You can get the latest PHP_Depend version from its PEAR channel: pear.pdepend.org
$pear channel-discover pear.pdepend.org $pear install pdepend/PHP_Depend-beta
