Manuel Pichler

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

Today I released PHP_Depend 0.9.6, which contains many bug fixes and improvements, but the main feature of this release is behind the scene, I have started to migrate PHP_Depend's internal system from plain Token object to an Abstract Syntax Tree.

• Closed #57: Display caption for abbreviations in overview pyramid, implemented in svn revision #947.
• Closed #80: Store default value for class properties.
• Fixed #81: PHP_Depend does not support comma separated property declarations, fixed in svn revision #916.
• Fixed #82: PHP_Depend does not support comma separated constant definitions, fixed in svn revision #931.
• Closed #83: Make ClassOrInterfaceReference an ASTNode, implemented in svn revision #917.
• Fixed #87: The parent keyword is not accepted as parameter type hint, fixed in svn revision #925.
• Fixed #89: Coupling analyzer reports wrong results, fixed in svn revision #939
• Fixed #90: Coupling analyzer does not handle PHP 5.3 function chains, fixed in svn revision #943.
• Fixed #91: Parser throws an exception when __CLASS__ as default value of an array property, fixed in svn revision #944.
• Closes #92: Use class constants as analyzer identifiers, implemented in svn revision #950.

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 0.9.5, which contains many bug fixes and improvements. The main features of this release are PHP 5.3 namespace support and a more robust parser that ignores most kinds of syntax errors,

• Closed #2 Support PHP 5.3 namespace syntax, implemented since svn revision #789.
• Closed #61 Catch parser errors and continue processing, implemented in svn revision #880.
• Closed #63 Make ResultPrinter a configurable option, implemented in svn revision #668.
• Fixed #64 The single cache directory causes permission denied on *NIX systems, fixed in svn revision #667.
• Fixed #65 Endless loop for class and interface declarations without body, fixed in svn revision #672.
• Closed #66 Dependency wiring should be done at the end of the parsing process, implemented in svn revision #855.
• Fixed #69 Parser does not handle PHP 5.3 class names in function and method bodies, fixed in svn revision #688.
• Fixed #70 Parser throws an unexpected token exception for closure, fixed in svn revision #726.
• Fixed #71 Parser throws an unexpected token exception for signed default values, fixed in svn revision #740.
• Fixed #73 Inconsistent state when an interface and a class with the same name exists, fixed in svn revision #776.
• Fixed #76 Tokenizer keyword detection is broken, fixed in svn revision #871.

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 0.9.4, which contains many bug fixes and improvements.

• Fixed #92: Handling of types within instanceof-operator fixed.
• Closed #90: Support for single file parsing/analyzing implemented.
• Closed #88: Tokens provide information about the start and end column.
• Closed #87: Support for type definitions within comments implemented.
• Closed #40: Cli debug flag added. PHP_Depend will print additional debug information to STDERR when this cli switch is set.
• The ProjectAwareI and NodeAwareI interfaces extend the AnalyzerI interface, which makes analyzer mocking easier.
• Switch from PHP_Depend specific constants for public, protected, private methods & properties to modifiers compatible with PHP's reflection-extension.
• Support for static modifier for properties&methods and final for methods added.
• Support for class final modifier added.
• Support for chained types like "false|Iterator" or "array(false|Iterator)" in doc comments added.

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

Just now I released PHP_Depend 0.9.3, the primary goal for this release was focused on less memory consumption. A run of PHP_Depend 0.9.2 against eZ Publish took up to 1GB and PHP_Depend 0.9.3 analyzes the same source with a memory limit of 160Mb.

• Fixed #89: The source file is never set for methods, properties and constants.
• Closed #82: Tokenizer cache added, reduces runtime up to 25%.
• Closed #83: Storage layer for node tokens added, reduces memory consumption. .
• Closed #85: TextUI displays the execution time and the memory usage(linux only).
• Code restructured, input filters and iterator moved to package "Input".
• Test suite restructured to reflect the actual project structure.

From now on you will get the latest PHP_Depend version through the new pear channel pear.pdepend.org, for a few weeks I will keep the old pear channel. Enter the following pear commands to upgrade PHP_Depend's channel.

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

Or checkout version 0.9.3 from the PHP_Depend subversion repository.

mapi@arwen ~ $ svn co http://svn.pdepend.org/tags/0.9.3

This is a bug fix release of PHP_Depend. Version 0.9.2 fixes bug #84, which could result in a failure for all PHP versions lower than 5.3.0alpha2.

You can get the latest PHP_Depend version through its PEAR channel pear.xplib.de or as a subversion checkout of the 0.9.2 tag.
Please do not checkout "trunk", it is totally unstable at the moment and I will not provide any support for it.

mapi@arwen ~ $ svn co http://svn.pdepend.org/tags/0.9.2