PHPMD - PHP Mess Detector
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:Author: 		Manuel Pichler
:Date:			Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:58:22 +0100
:Copyright:		CC by-nc-sa

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PHPMD - PHP Mess Detector
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This is the project site of *PHPMD*. It is a spin-off project of
`PHP Depend`__ and aims to be a PHP equivalent of the well known
Java tool `PMD`__. PHPMD can be seen as an user friendly and easy
to configure frontend for the raw metrics measured by PHP Depend.

__ http://pdepend.org
__ http://pmd.sourceforge.net

What PHPMD does is: It takes a given PHP source code base and look 
for several potential problems within that source. These problems
can be things like:

- Possible bugs
- Suboptimal code
- Overcomplicated expressions
- Unused parameters, methods, properties

PHPMD is a young project and so it only provides a limited set of
pre defined rules, compared with it's brother PMD, that detect code
smells and possible errors within the analyzed source code. Checkout
the `rules section`__ to learn more about all implemented rules.

__ /rules/index.html

Recent Releases
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- 2012/02/25 - PHPMD 1.3.2; This `release`__ closes a minor issue in PHPMD
  related to the Suhosin patch and ``memory_limit``.

- 2012/02/04 - PHPMD 1.3.0: This `release`__ depends on the latest PHP_Depend
  version 1.0.0.

- 2012/01/27 - PHPMD 1.2.1: New bugfix `release`__ of PHPMD that fixes several
  minor issues in PHPMD. Additionally we have updated to a more recent 
  PHP_Depend version.

- 2011/09/27 - PHPMD 1.2.0: New feature `release`__ of PHPMD that implements a
  new command line option for the strict mode.

- 2011/06/30 - PHPMD 1.1.1: New feature `release`__ of PHPMD that fixes an issue
  in PHP_PMD's package file.

__ /download/release/1.3.2/changelog.html
__ /download/release/1.3.0/changelog.html
__ /download/release/1.2.1/changelog.html
__ /download/release/1.2.0/changelog.html
__ /download/release/1.1.1/changelog.html