Get ready for PHP 7.2 PHP 7.2 is around the corner, and shall be out soon, thanks to the hard work of Remi Collet (@RemiCollet), Sara Golemon (@saramg) and countless others that run tests and submit bug reports. PHP 7.2 is already RC6, and the documentation has even been updated : it is high time to get […]
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Oct
Oct
Exakat 0.12.16 review Exakat 0.12.16 is the version before Zend Con week ! We’ll be attending and speaking at Zend Con next week, then to PHP Québec, by the end of October. Come and let’s have a chat about code reviews ! This week, we upgraded Zend Framework 3’s analysis with all the most recent component version. […]
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Jul
Jul
Exakat 0.12.4 review Exakat 0.12.4 for your pleasure. Exakat has progressed on multiples fronts last week : PHP 7.2 is now fully covered for migration. Exakat has now a new favorite : and / &&; a new report for the ‘object’ keyword, a suggestion to reduce isset() calls, and a magic error with arrays. Finally, […]
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Jun
Jun
Exakat 0.11.8 review Exakat 0.11.8 has been published, as usual on Monday. This week, exakat received its very first PHP 7.2 specific analyzer : PHP 7.2 supports overwriting abstract methods. It goes with all the other PHP 7.2 analyzers that are ready. The Ambassador report now includes reports about framework usage, string encoding and a […]
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Jun
Jun
Get up and running with exakat Exakat is a smart static analysis engine for PHP. It reviews the code fast and produces reports tailored for every needs : issues and code smell for programmers, inventories and maps for architect ; compilation and configurations lists for sys admins ; dashboards for team leaders. Including over 320 analysis and spanning […]
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May
May
Exakat 0.11.5 is out, right after the excellent Darkmira Tour Brazil. Although it delayed the Monday publication, it also gave a list of good ideas and some time in the airport to work on it. So, this version is featuring a new report, called ‘Dependency wheel’, and four new analysis: Avoid typehinting with classes, Could […]
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Apr
Apr
I’m sure you have experienced the ever-green art of steganography : a bug hiding in plain sight in your code. Yet, this is an invisible bug. The code compiles, IDE reports nothing wrong, unit tests are a failing everywhere, and you keep reading the sources without finding anything. And suddenly, it strikes you : YES, […]
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Apr
Apr
Exakat 0.11.0 (Immortal Ruyi) is out with great new version! This week, Exakat is on composer! A two lines installation is ready for faster usage. And Exakat accelerated the result extraction phase by removing prepared statements : less queries to the database is always faster. Exakat is also suggesting to use str_repeat() instead of loops, […]
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Apr
Apr
Version 0.10.9 is here : time for the weekly exakat review . This week, we reduced the memory footprint in the gremlin server with a better check on the relations between elements in the code graph. This gives us less data to import, and less branches to analyze. That’s a gain in speed. We took time to […]
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Apr
Apr
Arrays forever Ever since I started using PHP, arrays have always been my friend. They are versatile, they have a wide range of functions, and they are easy to use. I kept using them versions after versions, and even with PHP 7.2, I still rely on them a lot. Over the years, classes have also […]
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Apr
Apr
Exakat 0.10.8 Exakat 0.10.8 (King of spiritual touch) is here. This week, we worked on speed improvement with a simple trick: replace an array by a class. Arrays were the usual structure for data set with a lot of empty slots, but classes are indeed better. Then, we ran into a lesser-known PHP features: the […]