109 PHP Static Analysis Tools

Mega-Linter can handle any type of project thanks to its 70+ embedded Linters, its advanced reporting, runnable on any CI system or locally, with assisted installation and configuration, able to apply formatting and fixes

A fast, open-source, static analysis tool for finding bugs and enforcing code standards at editor, commit, and CI time. Its rules look like the code you already write; no abstract syntax trees or regex wrestling. Supports 17+ languages.

PHP Static Analysis Tool - discover bugs in your code without running it!

SonarQube is an open platform to manage code quality.

Reports known vulnerabilities in common dependencies and recommends updated packages to minimize breaking changes

Static analysis tool for finding type errors in PHP applications.

Vulnerability Scanner and Risk Evaluation for containers, serverless and hosts at runtime. ThreatMapper generates runtime BOMs from dependencies and operating system packages, matches against multiple threat feeds, scans for unprotected secrets, and scores issues based on severity and risk-of-exploit.

CodeScene is a quality visualization tool for software. Prioritize technical debt, detect delivery risks, and measure organizational aspects. Fully automated.

Fixes your code according to standards like PSR-1, PSR-2, and the Symfony standard.

Synopsys Coverity supports 20 languages and over 70 frameworks including Ruby on rails, Scala, PHP, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Fortran, C, C++, C#, VB.NET.

A modern static analyzer from etsy.

Better Code Hub checks your GitHub codebase against 10 engineering guidelines devised by the authority in software quality, Software Improvement Group.

A Static Code Analyzer for PHP.

Detects violations of a defined set of coding standards.

Statically generates a call graph image and displays it on screen.

Enforce rules for dependencies between software layers.

Commercial Static Code Analysis which doesn't require pre-compilation.

Automated code review tool integrates with GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab (even self-hosted). Available for JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Go, PHP, Java, Docker, and more. (open-source free)

Combine [PHP_CodeSniffer](https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer) and [PHP-CS-Fixer](https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/PHP-CS-Fixer).

Finds possible bugs in your code.

Scanmycode - Code Scanning/SAST/Linting using many tools/Scanners with One Report

Commercial Static Code Analysis which generates exploits to verify vulnerabilities.

Tracks down error-prone code locations, style violations, cloned or dead code, cyclic dependencies and more for C/C++, C#/.NET, Java and Ada 83/Ada 95.

Universal code beautifier with a GitHub app. Supports HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, Vue, C++, Go, Objective-C, Java, Python, PHP, GraphQL, Markdown, and more.

Code Analysis to ship Better Code, Faster.

A commercial static analysis platform that supports the scanning of C/C++, C#, VB.NET, VB6, ABAP/BSP, ActionScript, Apex, ASP.NET, Classic ASP, VB Script, Cobol, ColdFusion, HTML, Java, JS, JSP, MXML/Flex, Objective-C, PHP, PL/SQL, T-SQL, Python (2.6, 2.7), Ruby (1.9.3), Swift, Scala, VB, and XML.

Calculates software metrics like cyclomatic complexity for PHP code.

Easy to use architecture testing tool for PHP.

Instant PHP quality checks from your console. Analysis of code quality and coding style as well as overview of code architecture and its complexity.

Copy/Paste Detector for PHP code.

Checks code on every commit.

Identify and remediate cyber threats in a blazingly fast, collaborative environment, with seamless integration in your SDLC. Python, C\C++, Java, C#, PHP and more.

A PHP parser written in PHP.

Finds usage of non-built-in extensions.

Add scalar type hints and return types to existing PHP projects using PHPDoc annotations.

Analyzes PHP source code to generate documentation.

Calculates and visualizes various code quality metrics.

Linter for integrating annotated TODOs with your issue trackers

A Simple and Comprehensive Vulnerability Scanner for Containers and other Artifacts, Suitable for CI. Trivy detects vulnerabilities of OS packages (Alpine, RHEL, CentOS, etc.) and application dependencies (Bundler, Composer, npm, yarn, etc.). Checks containers and filesystems.

Automated Code Reviews and Technical Debt management platform that supports 12+ languages.

Static analysis for C/C++/C#, PHP and Java.

Creates reports of over 400 rule patterns for feature detection (e.g. the use of cryptography or version control in apps).

Commercial Static Code Analysis.

Beautify HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++, C#, Objective-C, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Coldfusion, SQL, and more in Atom editor.

Helps discover good candidates for refactoring.

Automated code analysis tool to deal with technical depth. Integrates with Bitbucket and Gitlab. (free for Open Source Projects)

Dependency analysis tool.

Finds usages of deprecated (Symfony) code.

Detection of design patterns in PHP code.

A static and dynamic analysis tool for Laravel applications that provides recommendations to improve the performance, security and code reliability of Laravel apps. Contains 120 automated checks.

An automated code reviewing engine for PHP.

Adds static analysis to Laravel improving developer productivity and code quality. It is a wrapper around PHPStan.

Lizard is an extensible Cyclomatic Complexity Analyzer for many programming languages including C/C++ (doesn't require all the header files or Java imports). It also does copy-paste detection (code clone detection/code duplicate detection) and many other forms of static code analysis. Counts lines of code without comments, CCN (cyclomatic complexity number), token count of functions, parameter count of functions.

A set of static analysis and refactoring tools which use graph theory.

This tool checks syntax of PHP files faster than serial check with a fancier output.

A Static Security Scanner.

Checks for weak assumptions.

Refactoring helper.

Suggests a next version according to semantic versioning.

PHP spell check library.

Library emulating the PHP internal reflection.

Builds a dependency graph for a project.

A tool for quickly measuring the size and analyzing the structure of a PHP project.

Helps to detect magic numbers.

Many tools for PHP static analysis in one container.

PHPQA all-in-one Analyzer CLI tool.

A tool for running QA tools (phploc, phpcpd, phpcs, pdepend, phpmd, phpmetrics).

Static analysis tool for PHP.

A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.

A static analysis tool for security purposes.

Visualizes metrics and source code.

Snyk Code finds security vulnerabilities based on AI. Its speed of analysis allow us to analyse your code in real time and deliver results when you hit the save button in your IDE. Supported languages are Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP, C#, Go and TypeScript. Integrations with GitHub, BitBucket and Gitlab. It is free to try and part of the Snyk platform also covering SCA, containers and IaC.

A static analysis engine.

twig-lint is a lint tool for your twig files.

Language-independent tool for massive, automatic, programmable refactoring based on simple pattern definitions.

Code review tool with static code analysis and code-aware navigation for Java, PHP, JavaScript and Kotlin.

WhiteHat Scout (for Developers) combined with WhiteHat Sentinel Source (for Operations) supporting WhiteHat Top 40 and OWASP Top 10.

Commercial Static Code Analysis which runs locally, but uploads the results to its cloud for presentation.

Provides a unified interface to sort and act on the issues it finds.

Automated SAST code reviews driven by security, supports 15+ languages and includes security training.

Analyses the comprehensive dependencies of code elements for Java, C/C++, Ruby.

Regexp based customizable linter.

Grep rough audit - source code auditing tool.

Automated PHP code review.

Commercial Static Code Analysis system doesn't require building the source code or pre-compilation.

Analyzer of PHP code to search issues with deprecated functionality in newer interpreter versions. It finds removed objects (functions, variables, constants and ini-directives), deprecated functions functionality, and usage of forbidden names or tricks (e.g. reserved identifiers in newer versions).

Quick automated code review of your changes. Supports more than 40 runners for various languages, including Clang, Elixir, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby and more.

A static source code analyser for vulnerabilities in PHP scripts.

A proprietary code quality checker that can be integrated with GitHub.

Security code analyzer for C# and VB.NET. Detects various security vulnerability patterns: SQLi, XSS, CSRF, XXE, Open Redirect, etc. Integrates into Visual Studio 2015 and newer. Detects various security vulnerability patterns: SQLi, XSS, CSRF, XXE, Open Redirect, etc.

Sigrid helps you to improve your software by measuring your system's code quality, and then compares the results against a benchmark of thousands of industry systems to give you concrete advice on areas where you can improve.

Suite of static analysis tools consisting of the three components Sotoarc (Architecture Analysis), Sotograph (Quality Analysis), and Sotoreport (Quality report). Helps find differences between architecture and implementation, interface violations (e.g. external access of private parts of subsystems, detection of all classes, files, packages and subsystems which are strongly coupled by cyclical relationships and more. The Sotograph product family runs on Windows and Linux.

Detect security risks, find bugs and provide actionable metrics for PHP projects.

A commercial static analysis platform that allows for scanning of multiple languages (C/C++, Android, C#, Java, JS, PHP, Python, Node.JS, Ruby, Fortran, and Swift).

Tencent Cloud Code Analysis (TCA for short, code-named CodeDog inside the company early) is a comprehensive platform for code analysis and issue tracking. TCA consist of three components, server, web and client. It integrates of a number of self-developed tools, and also supports dynamic integration of code analysis tools in various programming languages.

Find flaws in binaries and bytecode without requiring source. Support all major programming languages: Java, .NET, JavaScript, Swift, Objective-C, C, C++ and more.

Tool to detect and correct input validation vulnerabilities in PHP (4.0 or higher) web applications and predicts false positives by combining static analysis and data mining.

Static code analysis for binary and source code - Java/Scala, PHP, Javascript, C#, PL/SQL, Python, T-SQL, C/C++, ObjectiveC/Swift, Visual Basic 6.0, Ruby, Delphi, ABAP, HTML5 and Solidity.

Automated Code Analysis for repos on GitHub or BitBucket.

Emerge is a source code and dependency visualizer that can be used to gather insights about source code structure, metrics, dependencies and complexity of software projects. After scanning the source code of a project it provides you an interactive web interface to explore and analyze your project by using graph structures.

Regex-based static analysis tool for Visual Studio, VS Code, and Sublime Text - C/C++, C#, PHP, ASP, Python, Ruby, Java, and others.

Code visualization tool that provides code analysis, standards testing, metrics, graphing, dependency analysis and more for Ada, VHDL, and others.

Scan is a free open-source DevSecOps platform for detecting security issues in source code and dependencies. It supports a broad range of languages and CI/CD pipelines.