Manuel Pichler

Version 1.1.0 of PHPMD was released on March the 20th 2011. The key features for this release were two new rules. The first one utilizes the Coupling Between Objects (CBO) metric to detect strongly coupled classes. The second one detects the usage of PHP's questionable goto statement. Beside that we have closed a minor bug in the LongVariable rule, where also private properties with descriptive names were reported. And finally we have replaced deprecated PHPUnit features in the PHPMD's test suite, so that PHPMD's tests should now work with PHPUnit 3.4.x and 3.5.x without deprecated warnings.

Features

• Implemented #10474873: Add rule for PHP's goto statement. Implemented with commit #2745a20.
• Implemented #10474987: Implement rule for CBO metric. Implemented with commit #14277b4.
• Implemented #11012465: Replace deprecated PHPUnit features in test suite. Implemented with commit #4adb88d.

Today/Yesterday we have released the bugfix version 0.9.15 and 0.9.16 of PHP_Depend. With these releases we have closed a critical bug in PHP_Depend's handling of namespaces, where identical class names in two different namespaces resulted in an endless loop, so that the php process died with a fatal error.

• Fixed #152: Endless loop bug for identical class and parent name. Fixed in svn revision #1320.
• Fixed #153: Only count those classes and interfaces that are flagged as user defined types. Fixed in subversion revision #1327.
• Implemented #154: Make execution order of analyzers reproducable. Implemented in svn revision #1331.

As always, you can get the latest PHP_Depend version from its PEAR channel: pear.pdepend.org:

mapi@arwen ~ $ pear channel-discover pear.pdepend.org
mapi@arwen ~ $ pear install pdepend/PHP_Depend-beta

Or you can fetch the sources from the subversion reposition:

mapi@arwen ~ $ svn co http://svn.pdepend.org/trunk pdepend

And additionally you can find a repository mirror on github:

mapi@arwen ~ $ git clone git://github.com/manuelpichler/pdepend.git

Today I have released the second beta version of phpUnderControl. Beside several minor tweaks and bug fixes, this release contains one additional feature I was asked for during the IPC in Berlin. This feature allows you to specify a maximum number of log entries that will be shown in the generated metric charts. This can be very useful once you have a project with a great amount of builds and the chart rendering gets slower and slower.

This feature adds a new option --max-number to phpUnderControl's chart command. To rebuild all your charts you can call phpUnderControl's shell script with the following command:

  mapi@arwen ~ $ phpuc --force-update --max-number 42 \
                 /opt/cruisecontrol/logs/phpUnderControl \
                 /opt/cruisecontrol/logs/phpUnderControl

You can get the latest release of phpUnderControl through its pear channel:

  mapi@arwen ~ $ pear upgrade --alldeps phpuc/phpUnderControl-0.6.0beta2
  Starting to download phpUnderControl-0.6.0beta2.tgz (546,314 bytes)
  ...................................................................
  .............................done: 546,314 bytes

or you can get the latest development version on github.

Today we have released the bugfix version 0.9.13 of PHP_Depend, the tool to measure several software metrics for your PHP application. This release fixes two critical bugs. One in the tokenizer implementation, which has modified valid code under test in such a way, that it has become invalid PHP code. The second fix is related to PHP_Depends's test code, where a missing require_once statement has caused a E_FATAL while running the test suite in PHPUnit's process isolation mode.

• Fixed #145: Incorrect require_once statement in ASTSwitchStatement source file. Fixed in svn revision #1262.
• Fixed #150: Invalid nowdoc substitution has produced broken code. Fixed in svn revision #1266.

As always, you can get the latest PHP_Depend version from its PEAR channel: pear.pdepend.org:

mapi@arwen ~ $ pear channel-discover pear.pdepend.org
mapi@arwen ~ $ pear install pdepend/PHP_Depend-beta

Or you can fetch the sources from the subversion reposition:

mapi@arwen ~ $ svn co http://svn.pdepend.org/trunk pdepend

And additionally you can find a repository mirror on github:

mapi@arwen ~ $ git clone git://github.com/manuelpichler/pdepend.git

I am proud to announce the 0.9.12 release of PHP_Depend. PHP_Depend is a low level static code analysis tool. It takes the given source and calculates several software metrics for the code. This data can be used by software-developers, architects and designers to control the quality of a software-product without time consuming code audits.

This new release of PHP_Depend has done a great step into the direction of a token free PHP_Depend version. This means future versions of PHP_Depend will work without the need to traverse linear token streams up and down, to measure metrics. Instead PHP_Depend will rely on it's internal abstract syntax tree, that represents the logical structure of the analyzed source code. With this solution it will be possible to implement several new features that will make PHP_Depend more useful, for example static callgraph analysis.

• Implemented #97: Replace current token approach in CCN- and NPath-Analyzer with AST-Nodes. Implemented in svn revision #1248.
• Implemented #125: PHP_Depend silently parses list statements. Fixed in svn revision #1223. Thanks to Joey Mazzarelli for providing this patch.
• Implemented #126: Generate reproducable node identifiers instead of random numbers. Implemented in svn revision #1244.
• Fixed #128: Variable variables in foreach statement cause an exception. Fixed in svn revision #1237.
• Fixed #133: Fatal error: Maximum function nesting level of '100' reached, aborting! in /usr/share/pear/PHP/Depend/Util/Log.php on line 109. Fixed in svn revision #1257.
• Fixed #134: ASTReturnStatement is not derived from ASTStatement. Fixed in svn revision #1250.
• Fixed #135: Several Statement classes do not inherit ASTStatement. Fixed in svn revision #1255.

As always, you can get the latest PHP_Depend version from its PEAR channel: pear.pdepend.org:

mapi@arwen ~ $ pear channel-discover pear.pdepend.org
mapi@arwen ~ $ pear install pdepend/PHP_Depend-beta

Or you can fetch the sources from the subversion reposition:

mapi@arwen ~ $ svn co http://svn.pdepend.org/trunk pdepend

And additionally you can find a repository mirror on github:

mapi@arwen ~ $ git clone git://github.com/manuelpichler/pdepend.git

We are proud to announce the 0.2.3 release of the PHP Mess Detector, a tool that takes source code and performs various tests to calculate various quality aspects from it. The measured values are a good starting point for future improvements. This release contains some new features, for example support for the @SuppressWarnings annotation, that allows you to exclude single methods or complete classes from PHPMD's analyzing process. This annotation can be used to suppress a single rule, a group of rules or PHPMD at all.

/**
 * Suppress all PHPMD warnings for this class.
 *
 * @SuppressWarnings(PHPMD)
 */
class PHPMD_SuppressAll 
{
}

class  PHPMD_SuppressOnMethod
{
    /**
     * Do not warn about the unused parameter $bar.
     *
     * @SuppressWarnings(PHPMD.UnusedFormatParameter)
     */
    public function foo($bar)
    {
    }
}

Beside several bugfixes this release comes with a new set of rules that check the naming of methods, variables etc. against common coding conventions and best practices.

• Fixed #6: PHP Tokenizer required but no error when installing.
• Fixed #7: UnusedLocalVariable ruleset incorrectly flags variables as unused when used inside double quoted string. Fixed in svn revision #187.
• Implemented #9: Add support for "Suppress warnings" annotations. Implemented in svn revision #200.
• Implemented #10: Support for exclude element in rule-set files added. Implemented in svn revision #189.
• Implemented #13: Implement naming rules, e.g. short variables, parameter etc.
• Fixed #14: ExcessivePublicCount rule should utilize PHP_Depend's cis metric. Fixed in svn revision #203.
• Fixed #15: ExcessivePublicCount rule is never used. Fixed in svn revision #202.

You can get the latest PHPMD version from its PEAR channel: pear.phpmd.org

mapi@arwen ~ $ pear channel-discover pear.pdepend.org
mapi@arwen ~ $ pear channel-discover pear.phpmd.org
mapi@arwen ~ $ pear install --alldeps phpmd/PHP_PMD-alpha

Or from our github repository:

mapi@arwen ~ $ git clone git://github.com/manuelpichler/phpmd.git

I have just released version 0.9.11 of PHP_Depend. It contains a few bug fixes and improvements for PHP_Depend.

• Fixed #118: Calculation of the Number Of Overwritten Methods is wrong. Fixed in svn revision #1112.
• Fixed #119: Three test cases fail for all PHP versions prior to 5.3. Fixed in svn revision #1114.
• Implemented #121: Parse arguments of the ASTForeachStatement. Implemented in svn revision #1115.
• Critical issue in PHP_Depend's temporary data cache fixed. This bug only occured when running several instances of PHP_Depend in parallel. In this setup the used cache key spl_object_hash() has caused a corrupted cache, because different php process instances have written different data to the same cache file.

As always, you can get the latest PHP_Depend version from its PEAR channel: pear.pdepend.org:

  mapi@arwen ~ $ pear channel-discover pear.pdepend.org
  mapi@arwen ~ $ pear install pdepend/PHP_Depend-beta

Or you can fetch the sources from the subversion reposition:

  mapi@arwen ~ $ svn co http://svn.pdepend.org/branches/0.9.0/

And additionally you can find a repository mirror on github:

  mapi@arwen ~ $ git clone git://github.com/manuelpichler/pdepend.git

I have just released the bug fix version 0.9.10 of PHP_Depend. This release contains several bug fixes and improvements for PHP_Depend.

• Implemented #72__: Add NOAM, NOOM and NOCC metrics. Implemented in svn revision #1084.
• Implemented #74: Make CRAP-index available. Implemented in svn revision #1063.
• Implemented #105: Support for deep search implement. Implemented in svn revision #1078.
• Fixed #106: Filter algorithm is broken for namespaced internal classes. Fixed in svn revision #1039.
• Fixed #110: Duplicate "coupling" directory in test code. Fixed in svn revision #1032.
• Fixed #111: Dynamic Strings are treated as literal strings. Fixed in svn revision #1037.
• Fixed #114: Parsing error caused by complex string expressions fixed. Fixed in svn revision #1068.
• Fixed #115: Summary and PHPUnit Report lists unknown classes. Fixed in svn revision #1101.
• Fixed #116: Returns reference results in parsing error. Fixed in svn revision #1090.
• Performance intensive calculation result cached.
• Test code restructured and improved.
• Concurrency issue for parallel running pdepend instances fixed.

As always, you can get the latest PHP_Depend version from its PEAR channel: pear.pdepend.org:

  mapi@arwen ~ $ pear channel-discover pear.pdepend.org
  mapi@arwen ~ $ pear install pdepend/PHP_Depend-beta

Or you can fetch the sources from the subversion reposition:

  mapi@arwen ~ $ svn co http://svn.pdepend.org/branches/0.9.0/

And additionally you can find a repository mirror on github:

  mapi@arwen ~ $ git clone git://github.com/manuelpichler/pdepend.git

Today I have released phpUnderControl version 0.5.1. It's a bug fix release that closes several issues open since a long time. First of all I would like to thank Sebastian Marek who was the main contributor to this releases, so a big thankyou to you.

• Now phpUnderControl should work with CruiseControl 2.8.3. Thanks to Mike van Riel who provided some hints on this issue in a blog comment.
• Fixed #983: Graph unitests throw fatal error when ezComponents not available.
• Fixed #966: phpcs-details.xsl not showing file name.
• Closed #863: Destination option is now deprecated.
• Fixed #862: Command line switches without parameter don't work.
• Fixed #861: Password is used as username in check outs. This patch was supplied by Thorsten Daners via e-mail.
• Fixed #734: Now the build dropdown redirects to the correct build uri.
• Implemented #703: PHPUnit test results are now the first entry on the project overview page.
• Fixed #700: Throw an exception when the specified project does not exist.
• Implemented #675: Use "php -l" for lint checking and not PHPUnit.
• Implemented #625: Integrate PHP_Depend results.

Beside the new release some more things have changed. From now on the phpUnderControl development is hosted on github. This means that from now on the latest version of phpUnderControl can be obtained with the following command:

mapi@arwen ~ $ git clone \
               git://github.com/manuelpichler/phpUnderControl.git

Additionally we have moved the phpUnderControl's PEAR Channel Server from pear.phpunit.de to its own server pear.phpundercontrol.org. At this point I would like to thank Sebastian for providing phpUnderControl's infrastructure under the PHPUnit umbrella for the last three years.

mapi@arwen ~ $ pear uninstall phpunit/phpUnderControl
mapi@arwen ~ $ pear channel-discover pear.phpundercontrol.org
mapi@arwen ~ $ pear install --alldeps phpuc/phpUnderControl-beta
Starting to download phpUnderControl-0.5.1.tgz (539,717 bytes)
..........................................done: 539,717 bytes
install ok: channel://pear.phpundercontrol.org/phpUnderControl-0.5.1

Today I have released PHPMD 0.2.2, a minor bug fix release that solves some exit code issues in the previous version. Beside this, I am proud to announce the first release of the PHPMD Ant Task. It allows a seamless integration of PHPMD into your Ant build.xml file. So, please download the PHPMD Ant Task, test it and file bug reports or feature requests in PHPMD's issue tracker.

You can get the latest PHPMD version from its PEAR channel: pear.phpmd.org

mapi@arwen ~ $ pear channel-discover pear.pdepend.org
mapi@arwen ~ $ pear channel-discover pear.phpmd.org
mapi@arwen ~ $ pear install --alldeps phpmd/PHP_PMD-alpha

Beside this two releases there is an additional news. From now on you can find an up-2-date mirror of PHPMD's subversion repository on github, so that you can fork PHPMD and participate on in development on these days social coding plattform.

mapi@arwen ~ $ git clone git://github.com/manuelpichler/phpmd.git

This is just a small bugfix release of PHPMD. It introduces a small new feature that enables PHPMD's command line tool to handle multiple input files. This feature was required for some upcoming external features and extensions. Since version 0.2.1 you can call the command line tool of PHPMD with multiple input files and/or directories, separated by comma.

mapi@arwen ~ $ phpmd phpmd,systemDaemon text unusedcode

You can get the latest PHPMD version from its PEAR channel: pear.phpmd.org

mapi@arwen ~ $ pear channel-discover pear.pdepend.org
mapi@arwen ~ $ pear channel-discover pear.phpmd.org
mapi@arwen ~ $ pear install --alldeps phpmd/PHP_PMD-alpha

Today I have released version 0.1.4 of the staticReflection component. This release contains two critical bug fixes.

• Fixed #5: Filenames not normalized from relative to absolute paths. Fixed in svn revision #259.
• Fixed #6: Queries do not hold references to previous parsed classes and interfaces. Fixed in svn revision #269.

You can get the latest stable version of the staticReflection component through its PHP_Depend's PEAR channel:

mapi@arwen ~ $ pear channel-discover pear.pdepend.org
mapi@arwen ~ $ pear install pdepend/staticReflection-alpha

or you can download the latest version from the staticReflection svn respository:

mapi@arwen ~ $ svn co http://svn.reflection.pdepend.org/trunk \
                      staticReflection

I have just released the bug fix version 0.9.9 of PHP_Depend.

• Fixed #108: Parser doesn't set start/end line/column on variables, fixed in svn revision #1015.
• Implemented #104: Add isStatic() method on ASTMemberPrimaryPrefix node, implemented in svn revision #1013.

You can get the latest PHP_Depend version from its PEAR channel: pear.pdepend.org

mapi@arwen ~ $ pear channel-discover pear.pdepend.org
mapi@arwen ~ $ pear install pdepend/PHP_Depend-beta

Today I released PHP_Depend 0.9.8, which contains many bug fixes and improvements. This release will be the base version for a new tool called PHPMD. PHPMD is a frontend that reports critical and suspect software artifacts in a project, based on the metrics measured with PHP_Depend. It aims to be a PHP equivalent to the well known java tool PMD.

• Closed #93: Implement an assignment expression, Implemented in svn revision #992.
• Fixed #94: Parser throws exception for closures that return by reference, fixed in svn revision #962.
• Fixed #98: Functions with an invalid signature result in an inconsistent object graph, fixed in svn revision #986.
• Fixed #102: Namespace keyword in type-hint is broken, fixed in svn revision #1010.
• Fixed #103: The parser does not handle all strings as parameter default value correct, fixed in svn revision #1009.

You can get the latest PHP_Depend version from its PEAR channel: pear.pdepend.org

mapi@arwen ~ $ pear channel-discover pear.pdepend.org
mapi@arwen ~ $ pear install pdepend/PHP_Depend-beta

After quite some time of silence around phpUnderControl I have bundled the 0.5.0 release today. Beside minor changes, bugfixes and enhancements this release contains one new major feature, the PHP_CodeBrowser.

phpUnderControl integrating PHP_CodeBrowser

The PHP_CodeBrowser is a separate application that collects various XML log files with different project metrics/violations and presents them in a browseable source view with syntax highligting. This tool is a contribution by the Mayflower GmbH, where it was developed and now shared with the Open Source Community. At this point I would like to thank Mayflower as a whole and in particular at Elger and Thorsten, which were responsible for all technical aspects of this contribution.

To use the PHP_CodeBrowser you must add an additional execute publisher to your CruiseControl config.xml file that generates the PHP_CodeBrowser html report and an additional artifacts publisher to move the generated PHP_CodeBrowser report into the projects artifacts directory.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<cruisecontrol>
  <!-- ... -->
  <project name="PHP_Depend" buildafterfailed="false">
    <!-- ... -->
    <publishers>
      <!-- ... -->
      <execute command="phpcb 
        --log projects/${project.name}/build/logs 
        --source projects/${project.name}/source/PHP 
        --output projects/${project.name}/build/php-code-browser"/>
      <artifactspublisher 
        dir="projects/${project.name}/build/php-code-browser" 
        dest="artifacts/${project.name}" 
        subdirectory="php-code-browser"/>
      <!-- ... -->
    </publishers>
  </project>
</cruisecontrol>

But why do we use a CruiseControl publishers instead of a regular ant (Your build tool here) target? The answer is really simple. The PHP_CodeBrowser must be the very last artifact generated for a project, which means it must also run after PHPUnit, to collect the test result logs. But in most setups PHPUnit is configured with failonerror="on" to mark a build as failed, when an error occured during the test execution. But with this configuration a following PHP_CodeBrowser target would never be executed by ant, because the build failed already. This cannot happen with a CruiseControl publisher which is always executed in a separated process.

If you create a new project with phpUnderControl's project command, phpUnderControl will automatically search for an installed PHP_CodeBrowser and add the required publishers to your config.xml file when it is present.

mapi@arwen ~ $ phpuc project \
       --project-name PHP_Depend \
       --source-dir PHP \
       --test-case PHP_Depend_AllTests \
       --test-dir tests \
       --test-file PHP/Depend/AllTests.php \
       --version-control svn \
       --version-control-url http://svn.pdepend.org/branches/0.9.0 \
       /opt/cruisecontrol/cruisecontrol-bin-2.8.2

To get the latest version of phpUnderControl, you can use the PEAR-Channel-Server:

mapi@arwen ~ $ pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
mapi@arwen ~ $ pear install phpunit/phpUnderControl-beta

or you can check it out from the subversion repository:

mapi@arwen ~ $ svn co svn://phpunit.de/phpunit/phpUnderControl/trunk