PHPMD - PHP Mess Detector

This is the project site of PHPMD. It is a spin-off project of PHP Depend and aims to be a PHP equivalent of the well known Java tool PMD. PHPMD can be seen as an user friendly and easy to configure frontend for the raw metrics measured by PHP Depend.

What PHPMD does is: It takes a given PHP source code base and look for several potential problems within that source. These problems can be things like:

PHPMD is a young project and so it only provides a limited set of pre defined rules, compared with it's brother PMD, that detect code smells and possible errors within the analyzed source code. Checkout the rules section to learn more about all implemented rules.

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