Exakat 1.5.4 Review Exakat 1.5.4 is an under-the-hood upgrade. On the visible side, we added a check for unreachable class constants, since class constant got their visibility option; refrain from self in interfaces, as they behave unexpectedly, and should have destructor, for long-running PHP applications. On the hidden side, many refactoring have been applied, and […]
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Oct
Oct
The Land Where PHP Uses eval() It is 2018, and the PHP world useseval() in more than 28% of every PHP code source. It is repeatedly reported as a security issue and a performance bottleneck, and a memory hazard. Yet, we can’t get rid of it. It seems reasonable to think that most of eval […]
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Sep
Sep
Exakat 1.4.6 review Exakat 1.4.6 is mostly made up of bug fixes. A number of edges cases were discovered last week and eradicated : they provide greater stability to the engine. So we took more time to augment the documentation, providing real code case and related PHP error messages that Exakat helps avoid. Error messages […]
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Sep
Sep
Exakat 1.4.5 review Exakat 1.4.5 brings two new reports, and a new analyzer. It also packs a lot of incremental updates. The reports are work-in-progress : the Manual report, which documents your code; and the Weekly report, which brings the community together to hunt for bugs. The new analyzer suggests some default value for argument, […]
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Aug
Aug
Exakat PHP Index of coding Not using @ is the poster child of good practices. It’s also looked upon, as an impossible goal. Did you know that the @ operator is only merely used by 50% of PHP applications ? Same for parenthesis with include and co : don’t use them, like 50% of the […]
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Jun
Jun
Exakat 1.3.1 review Exakat 1.3.1 embarks on a new version of the underlying graph database : gremlin server 3.3.3. We’ve started using those new features, and that includes 4 new analysis and many false positive eliminations. Let’s cover the Exakat 1.3.1 review, like no one is watching. Always check JSON results Since null is a […]
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Feb
Feb
Exakat 1.1.4 review A new week, and an incredible harvest of PHP tricks. Some made it to the Exakat engine, so as to support the language handling; some made it to the analysis, so as to help us develop better. Tricks include array_keys’s extra parameters, unicode codepoint, constant scalar expressions and arrays (sic), dir . Let’s review […]
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Dec
Dec
Exakat 1.0.8 review Exakat 1.0.8 is published during the #phpadvent 2017 event on twitter. Every day, get a new tip on how to make your PHP code better. For that, Exakat keeps improving, and we have a wealth of new analysis and bug fixes for this new version. Exakat doctor reports JAVA_HOME and JAVA_OPTIONS for […]
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Dec
Dec
Exakat 1.0.6 review Long life to the first Exakat version for December 2017. While we have started a #phpadvent calendar with our favorite analysis and their impact in the code, we keep on packing new reviews in the Exakat engine. This week, we have two new analysis : never used parameters, and avoid using boolean […]
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Nov
Nov
Exakat 1.0.4 review Exakat 1.0.4 is out, in time to help migrate to PHP 7.2. November 30th, the next great version of PHP will be published. It is now time to review your PHP code. So, this week, we worked hard to finish the impressive line of update that PHP 7.2 is offering. In the […]