Exakat 1.7.0 Review The Exakat 1.7.0 precedes Confoo 2019 by a mere day. If you are in Montreal for one of the greatest PHP and web related conference, be sure to meet us! This version is an important milestone : with the 1.7.0, we are introducing two new reports, Diplomat and History; we also added […]
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Feb
Feb
Exakat 1.6.6 Review The Exakat 1.6.6 was born in Miami, during sunshine PHP 19. The conference is incredibly energetic, and with the help of fellow attendees, it provided inspiration for some interesting update : PHP supports strings with logical operators (good for security); Exakat reviews typehint and check if they are sufficient in the method […]
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Feb
Feb
Exakat 1.6.5 Review The Exakat 1.6.5 review comes in with a lot of extensions and some new analysis. In particular, we add support for pcov and weakref, two interesting PECL extensions; New analysis report variables that are used as conditions, and arrays that are initialized as strings (duh!); Finally, the Ambassador report and several previous […]
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Jan
Jan
Exakat 1.6.3 Review This is the Exakat 1.6.3 review for the 2019 new year! New analyzers focus on the upcoming speed boost for array_key_exists(), and the sometimes missing capturing subpatterns from preg_match(). The Ambassador report now includes a ‘new issues’ section, which displays only the most recently found issues in the code, since the last […]
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Jan
Jan
Join us at the Meetup AFUP Marseille, in France, and listen to Damien Seguy, CTO of Exakat. Damien is a speaker and will present “HOW TO AVOID TRAP DOORS IN PHP” with Static Analysis.
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Jan
Jan
Build Your Own Coding Reference With Exakat When reviewing PHP code with Exakat, there are always more issues than time to fix them. There is a time to learn from audited code, and time to focus on fixing. Both of them have their own rule set. Exakat provides several ways to make a selection among […]
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Jan
Jan
Exakat 1.6.1 Review This is the Exakat 1.6.1 review for the 2019 new year! New analyzers focus on the upcoming speed boost for array_key_exists(), and the sometimes missing capturing subpatterns from preg_match(). The Ambassador report now includes a ‘new issues’ section, which displays only the most recently found issues in the code, since the last […]
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Dec
Dec
Exakat 1.5.7 Review This week, on the Exakat 1.5.7 review : the ambassador report is augmented with the traits matrix and the ‘New issues’ section. We added support for ext/wasm and ext/async, two very interesting new extensions. Self referring traits and methods that could be static are some of the new rules. And the old […]
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Dec
Dec
Exakat 1.5.6 Review This week, on radio Exakat 1.5.6 : we added analysis to report the too verbose isset($a) && isset($a[1]), support for the SDL extension, and a check on useless trait’s method aliases. We also fixed a nest of nasty syntax, thanks to PHP own unit tests. Quick, Robin, to the Exakat 1.5.6 review. […]
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Nov
Nov
Exakat 1.5.5 Review Exakat 1.5.5 is the sinkterklas version : it brings a lot of speed, reports and analysis on its boat, from Spain. Seriously, Exakat 1.5.5 now reports your HTTP headers for unsafe configuration; it also suggests speed up tricks for fputcsv(), and it recommends using the file() functions, instead of fileget_contents(). Then, Exakat […]