Qodana for PHP

Qodana for PHP is based on PhpStorm. It brings all the smarts from PhpStorm, which help you:

detect anomalous code and probable bugs
eliminate dead code
highlight spelling problems
improve overall code structure
introduce coding best practices
Upload inspection results to Qodana Cloud

Supported technologies

Qodana for PHP provides inspections for the following technologies.

Programming languages	PHP JavaScript TypeScript
Markup languages	Blade CSS HTML JSON and JSON5 RELAX NG XML YAML
Scripting languages	Shell script
Databases and ORM	MongoDB MySQL Oracle PostgreSQL SQL SQL Server
Dependency management	Composer
Frameworks and libraries	Cucumber Joomla! PHPUnit Psalm

Supported features

The Qodana for PHP linter provides the following Qodana features:

Feature	Available under licenses
Baseline	Ultimate and Ultimate Plus
Code coverage	Ultimate and Ultimate Plus
FlexInspect	Ultimate and Ultimate Plus
License audit	Ultimate Plus
PHP version migration	Ultimate and Ultimate Plus
Quality gate	Ultimate and Ultimate Plus
Quick-fix	Ultimate and Ultimate Plus
Taint analysis	Ultimate Plus
Vulnerability checker	Ultimate Plus

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Analyze a project locally

Qodana provides two options for local analysis of your code. Qodana CLI is the easiest option to start. Alternatively, you can use the Docker command from the Docker image tab.

Assuming that you have already installed Qodana CLI on your machine, you can run this command in the project root directory:

                    qodana scan \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       -l jetbrains/qodana-php:2024.1
                

Here, the QODANA_TOKEN variable refers to the project token.

To start, pull the image from Docker Hub (only necessary to get the latest version):

docker pull jetbrains/qodana-php:2024.1

If you use PHP Composer, Qodana will install your project dependencies automatically right before the code analysis starts.

In case you need to change the language level, add the following to <source-directory>/.idea/php.xml:

                    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
                    <project version="4">
                        <component name="PhpProjectSharedConfiguration" php_language_level="<desired level>" />
                    </project>
                

Run the analysis locally:

                    docker run \
                       -v <source-directory>/:/data/project/ \
                       -e QODANA_TOKEN="<cloud-project-token>" \
                       jetbrains/qodana-php:2024.1
                

with source-directory pointing to the root of your project, and QODANA_TOKEN referring to the project token.

In your browser, open Qodana Cloud to examine inspection results. Here, you can also reconfigure the analysis, see the Inspection report section for details.

Next steps

Last modified: 16 June 2024