mds-agenturgruppe/php-code-checker

CLI tool for running PHP 8.x code checks

v5.0.0 2025-07-14 08:54 UTC

Requires

• php: >= 8.0
• phpmd/phpmd: ^2.15
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.1
• phpstan/phpstan-deprecation-rules: ^2.0
• phpstan/phpstan-symfony: ^2.0
• rector/rector: ^2.1
• squizlabs/php_codesniffer: ^3.6
• symplify/phpstan-rules: ^14.6

BSD-3-Clause

• static analysis
• dev

README

mds-code-check is a CLI tool for running PHP 8.x code checks for Symfony based applications with configurable rule sets with:

• PHPStan
  • PHPStan Symfony Framework
  • PHPStan Rules
  • Rules for detecting deprecations
• PHP_CodeSniffer
• PHPMD
• Rector

Installation

composer require --dev mds-agenturgruppe/php-code-checker:^5.0

Getting Started

After installation run this command:

vendor/bin/mds-code-check

This will execute code checks with the default ruleset, which is intended for code checks of Symfony projects.

Configuring rule sets

Rule sets

Rule sets define which checks and the arguments are used for a project when running the mds-code-check script. By default rulesets/default/ruleset.conf is used.

Configuration variables

Ruleset files define variables to configure the executed checks.

• Enable (1) or disable (0) checks:
  • PHPSTAN, PHPCS, PHPMD
• Arguments for each check:
  • PHPSTAN_ARGS, PHPCS_ARGS, PHPMD_ARGS

Project configuration

mds-code-check can be adapted to project-specific needs.

Used ruleset

The used ruleset is configured by placing .mds-code-checker.conf into the project root folder defining the RULESET variable with the ruleset file to use.

RULESET="./vendor/mds-agenturgruppe/php-code-checker/rulesets/default/ruleset.conf";

Adapting ruleset

In the project configuration file .mds-code-checker.conf the used ruleset can be adjusted as needed by overwriting the defining variables.

Example for disabling checks and changing arguments:

RULESET="./vendor/mds-agenturgruppe/php-code-checker/rulesets/default/ruleset.conf";
PHPSTAN_ARGS="--level=9 analyse bundles"
PHPCS_ARGS="--extensions=php --standard=./src/project-phpcs-ruleset.xml ./src -s"
PHPMD_ARGS="./src text --standard=./src/project-phpmp-ruleset.xml --exclude=\"*/Resources/views/*\""

mds-code-check arguments

In the development or analysis process, it is sometimes useful to only execute some tests. This can be achieved by passing check names as arguments to mds-code-check.

Only execute phpstan:

vendor/bin/mds-code-check phpstan

Only execute PHP_CodeSniffer and phpmd:

vendor/bin/mds-code-check phpcs phpmd

CI pipeline integration

For usage in CI pipelines and failing code check stages mds-code-check returns exit code 1 if at least one of the executed check script returns exit code 1. If all checks are successful exit code 0 is returned.

PHPStan

Find use of deprecations

To find usage of deprecated sources add to the project phpstan.neon file:

vendor/phpstan/phpstan-deprecation-rules/rules.neon

Rector

To run rector with our default config execute

vendor/bin/mds-rector

This will use config rulesets/default/rector-default.php and the dry-run option.

Tip: For a better overview of the dry-run output forward this to e.g. > rector-run.diff file and open that in sublime.

vendor/bin/mds-rector --dry-run > rector-run.diff

Use the option --force-run to apply all the changes.

vendor/bin/mds-rector --force-run

Custom Config

To use a custom config for your project, you can copy rulesets/default/rector-default.php to PROJECT_DIR/rector.php and adjust that to your needs.

Then use the standard rector cli command.

vendor/bin/rector process --dry-run

For more information check: https://getrector.com/documentation

Migration to v5.x

PHPStan

• If you use PhpStorm and want a one-time change, use the Replace function with regex activated so that you replace @SuppressWarnings\(([^"\)]+)\) with @SuppressWarnings("$1").