PHP is one of the most popular server-sider scripting languages that designed for web development and can be used as a general-purpose programming language. Most of the web programmers are looking to adoptPHP programminglanguage as they are huge demanded and can have lot of resources.
Interestingly, PHP comes with different types of tools that can help developer to complete coding task with ease. Apart from, different types of tools for analyzing and parsing your code is also available that listed below:
PHP Parser
Built on the top of PHP, PHP Parser is one type of code-parsing project for PHP versions from 5.2 to 5.6. Especially, parser is excellent for dong static analysis and it is best for operating the code of any application that deal with code in a programmatic way. The parser works within Abstract Syntax Tree (AST).
PHPCPD is one of the best Copy/Paste Detector (CPD) for PHP coding. When you are staring any big project, which is abandoned before or follows an old way of then with this tool, you can easily avoid having repetitive functions and calls all over the code base.
Setting up is very easy and can easily analyze bigger project like WordPress within minute.
Being an open-source tool, PHPCheckstyle enables PHP programmers to stick with some coding conventions.
With the help of this tool, one can easily check the input PHP source code and reports any intrusions against the specified standards.
It is best for those PHP programmers, who have just started coding and requires a simple way to get launch to the World of PHP testing and analysis. These reports are short and simple to understand.
PHP Analyzer is available as a hosted version on their homepage. This tool charges some amount to use. However, it is worthy to use this tool for saving some time and money.
This type of analyzer works within flow, type and other same analyses where the output comes in a solid report on how to enhance coding and manage with bugs.
PHP Markdown is a library package that comes with the PHP Markdown parser and PHP Markdown Extra with additional features comes with extra features. Talking about Markdown, it is an excellent text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers.
This tool enable to write using an simple to read & write plain text format and after that, convert it into structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).
One of the modern Textile markup language parsers for PHP, PHP-Textile is one type of humane web text generator, taking readable, lightweight and plain-text like markup language that can be converted into HTML.
Php Sandbox is one type of full-scale PHP 5.3.2+ sandbox class that uses PHPParser for preventing sandboxed code from unsafe code. FunctionParser is used by Php Sandbox for disassembling callables that passed to the sandbox with an aim to run PHP callables in sandboxes without first converting them into strings.
PHPMD is PHP Mess Detector is a project of PHP Depend. This tool seems same like Java analyzing tool, PMD.
Moreover, it is very easy to configure and accessible for examining raw metric that PHP Depend measures. The best thing about this tool is it searches potential problems in your code and can also scans for suboptimal code and bugs.
Sabberworm is a well-known parser for CSS files that written in PHP. With the help of this tool, developers can easily extract CSS files in data structure and enables them to operate the structure and provides output file in CSS format.
Parsedown is a Markdown parser that developed with PHP to add your applications in the code. Being a fast and reliable, this parsedown has been transfered to GitHub.
Markdown Extra extension is also offered by this tool that provides an additional features.
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