100 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

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

Static analysis tool for finding type errors in PHP applications.

SonarQube is an open platform to manage code quality.

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

A modern static analyzer from etsy.

A Static Code Analyzer for PHP.

Detects violations of a defined set of coding standards.

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.

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

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

Enforce rules for dependencies between software layers.

Finds possible bugs in your code.

Find security vulnerabilities, variants, and critical code quality issues using queries over source code. Automatic PR code review; free for public GitHub/Bitbucket repo: [LGTM.com](https://LGTM.com).

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

Code Analysis to ship Better Code, Faster.

Calculates software metrics like cyclomatic complexity for PHP code.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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)

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

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.

Easy to use architecture testing tool for PHP.

A PHP parser written in PHP.

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.

Helps discover good candidates for refactoring.

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.

Grep rough audit - source code auditing tool.

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.

Finds usage of non-built-in extensions.

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.

Vulnerability scanner for dependencies of node.js apps (free for Open Source Projects).

SAST tool which is capable of identifying vulnerabilities and undocumented features. The analyzer scans the source code and executables without debug info (i.e. binaries). Supports: Java/Scala/Kotlin, PHP, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, VBScript, HTML5, Python, Perl, C/C++, Objective-C/Swift, PL/SQL, T-SQL, ABAP, 1C, Apex, Go, Ruby, Groovy, Delphi, VBA, Visual Basic 6, Solidity, Vyper, COBOL.

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

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.

A static analysis engine.

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

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

Commercial Static Code Analysis which generates exploits to verify vulnerabilities.

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

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.

Code quality and technical debt management platform that supports 10+ languages.

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

Automated Code Analysis for repos on GitHub or BitBucket.

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.

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.

Regexp based customizable linter.

Automated PHP code review.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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).

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