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

Static analysis tool for finding type errors in PHP applications.

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

A modern static analyzer from etsy.

Fast detection of composer dependency issues.

• 💪 Powerful: Detects unused, shadow and misplaced composer dependencies
• ⚡ Performant: Scans 15 000 files in 2s!
• ⚙️ Configurable: Fine-grained ignores via PHP config
• 🕸️ Lightweight: No composer dependencies
• 🍰 Easy-to-use: No config needed for first try
• ✨ Compatible: PHP >= 7.2

A Static Code Analyzer for PHP.

Enforce rules for dependencies between software layers.

Combine PHP_CodeSniffer and PHP-CS-Fixer.

Finds possible bugs in your code.

Easy to use architecture testing tool for PHP.

Calculates software metrics like cyclomatic complexity for PHP code.

Analyzes PHP source code to generate documentation.

Checks code on every commit.

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.

Calculates and visualizes various code quality metrics.

An automated code reviewing engine for PHP.

A PHP parser written in PHP.

Finds usage of non-built-in extensions.

Dead Code Detector (DCD) for PHP code.

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

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

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

Helps discover good candidates for refactoring.

Dependency analysis tool.

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.

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

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.

Detects violations of a defined set of coding standards.

Refactoring helper.

Suggests a next version according to semantic versioning.

PHP spell check library.

Library emulating the PHP internal reflection.

PHP 7 Compatibility Checker.

Assist developers in porting their code quickly to PHP 7.

PHPArkitect helps you to keep your PHP codebase coherent and solid, by permitting to add some architectural constraint check to your workflow. You can express the constraint that you want to enforce, in simple and readable PHP code.

Builds a dependency graph for a project.

Helps to detect magic numbers.

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

Many tools for PHP static analysis in one container.

PHPQA all-in-one Analyzer CLI tool.

Static analysis tool for PHP.

A static analysis tool for security purposes.

Visualizes metrics and source code.

Instant Upgrades and Automated Refactoring of any PHP 5.3+ code. It upgrades your code for PHP 7.4, 8.0 and beyond. Rector promises a low false-positive rate because it looks for narrowly defined AST (abstract syntax tree) patterns. The main use-case are tackling technical debt in your legacy code and removing dead code. Rector provides a set of special rules for Symfony, Doctrine, PHPUnit, and many more.

A static analysis engine.

Web application security testing tool for CakePHP-based web applications. CakeFuzzer employs a predefined set of attacks that are randomly modified before execution. Leveraging its deep understanding of the Cake PHP framework, Cake Fuzzer launches attacks on all potential application entry points.

Finds usages of deprecated (Symfony) code.

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).

Reflection library to do Static Analysis for PHP Projects

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Multi-language Static Application Security Testing (SAST) platform that detects critical vulnerabilities, including hardcoded secrets, weak cryptography, backdoors, SQL injections, insecure configurations, etc.

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

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

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.

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 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)

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

Code Analysis to ship Better Code, Faster.

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

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

SonarQube empowers development teams with a code quality and security solution that deeply integrates into your enterprise environment; enabling you to deploy clean code consistently and reliably. SonarQube provides a free and open source Community Build.

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

Commercial Static Code Analysis which generates exploits to verify vulnerabilities.

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 static source code analyser for vulnerabilities in PHP scripts.

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.

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

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

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

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

Corgea is an AI-powered SAST scanner that helps developers find and fix insecure code. It finds business logic flaws, broken authentication, API vulnerabilities, and more with little false positives. Additionally, it automatically writes security fixes for them to approve. Corgea integrates with GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, IDEs and CLI. It is free to try it.

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

Regexp based customizable linter.

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 proprietary code quality checker that can be integrated with GitHub.

Static program analysis platform that allows custom analyzers to plug in through a common interface.

SonarQube Cloud enables your team to deliver clean code consistently and efficiently with a code review tool that easily integrates into the cloud DevOps platforms and extend your CI/CD workflow. SonarQube Cloud provides a free plan.

SonarQube for IDE (formerly SonarLint) is a free IDE extension available for IntelliJ, VS Code, Visual Studio, and Eclipse, to find and fix coding issues in real-time, flagging issues as you code, just like a spell-checker. More than a linter, it also delivers rich contextual guidance to help developers understand why there is an issue, assess the risk, and educate them on how to fix it.

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.

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.

Checks your code and infra (various Git repositories supported, cloud stacks, CLI, Web Interface platform, integrationss available) for security and quality issues. Code Scanning/SAST/Linting using many tools/Scanners deduplicated with One Report (AI optional).

Facebook's tools for code analysis, visualizations, or style-preserving source transformation for many languages.

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.

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.

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).

Linter for integrating annotated TODOs with your issue trackers

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

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

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

Automated Code Analysis for repos on GitHub or BitBucket.

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

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

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.

Grep rough audit - source code auditing tool.

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

An engine for searching patterns in the source code, based on Unified AST or UST. At present time C#, Java, PHP, PL/SQL, T-SQL, and JavaScript are supported. Patterns can be described within the code or using a DSL.

Static Reviewer executes code checks according to the most relevant Secure Coding Standards, OWASP, CWE, CVE, CVSS, MISRA, CERT, for 40+ programming languages, using 1000+ built-in validation rules for Security, Deadcode & Best Practices Available a module for Software Composition Analysis (SCA) to find vulnerabilities in open source and third party libraries.

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

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.

Commercial Static Code Analysis.

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

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

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.