Calculate software metrics for PHP projects

Question

I would like to calculate some code metrics for my PHP OOP projects. I try to use some of the tools mentioned in here. But except trail version of Understand, which presents only

number of code, comment, blank lines
number of classes number of file
number of functions number of
declarative/executable statements

I couldn't find any working for PHP.

Plugin for Eclipse by State of Flow is not working with my (not so new) Galileo Eclipse v3.5.

I'm interested in measures such as

depth of inheritance tree,
avg function length,
weighted methods per class,
duplications,
...

Are there any tools?

score 11 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 08 '13 at 06:03

There are some tools, in PHP -- and for PHP code.

Here are those I can think about :

phpcpd -- copy-paste detector
phploc -- to do many kind of counts (lines, classes, ...)
PHP_CodeSniffer -- to check if your code respects your coding standards.
phpmd -- mess detector
phpDocumentor / DocBlox to generate documentation (and detect what is not properly documented)

In PHP, those tools are generally not used from Eclipse, but integrated in some Continuous Integration Platform.

About those, you can take a look at :

phpUnderControl -- was used a lot a couple of years ago -- it has less success now
Jenkins (More or less a fork of Hudson)
- And, for that one, see Template for Jenkins Jobs for PHP Projects

Still, if you want to integrate some of those tools with Eclipse PDT, you might want to take a look at PHP Tool Integration.

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 11 '11 at 05:25

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See our PHP CloneDR for a tool that computes the amount and the precise location of duplicated code. It will find duplicates in spite of reformatting the text, modification of comments, and modifications (up to a degree of [dis]similarity.

There's an example of Joomla processed by the PHP CloneDR at the link.

answered Apr 11 '11 at 05:25

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phpcpd does also find duplicates if you reformat code and comments. – cweiske Apr 30 '11 at 12:01
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@cweiske: And who on earth will go through his big application and do that just to make phpcpd work? You don't need to do any manual labor like that to run the CloneDR. – Ira Baxter Apr 30 '11 at 13:35

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 09 '11 at 14:45

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to get complexity (and more, even estimated development time) you can use ProjectCodeMeter which supports PHP as well as other programming languages.

answered Jun 09 '11 at 14:45

Josh H. Galorath

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Thanks - looks interesting, i will try it! – Magda Nov 27 '11 at 22:42

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 10 '11 at 13:21

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PHP Depend generates some nice metrics for you.

answered Apr 10 '11 at 13:21

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