PHPMD - PHP Mess Detector
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:Author: 		Manuel Pichler
:Date:			Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:52:56 +0200
:Revision: 		19
: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 frontend
application for the raw metrics stream 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 currently in an early development stage and so it only 
provides a limited set of pre defined rules that detect bad smells
within the analyzed source code.

Recent Releases
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- 2010/08/10 - New release of PHPMD's `Java Binding`__ and the Ant
  `extension`__.
- 2010/07/03 - PHPMD 0.2.6: Released with several bug fixes and a
  new rule set, that contains rules which detect design issued. This
  `release`__ can be found in the download section and PHPMD's
  `PEAR channel`__.
- 2010/04/07 - First official release of the PHPMD `Java Binding`__.
  `Release 0.1.1`__ of PHPMD's extension for Ant.
- 2010/04/03 - PHPMD 0.2.5: Several bugfixes in existing rules and
  a new rule that detects too complex classes. This `release`__ can be
  found in the download section.
- 2010/03/08 - PHPMD 0.2.4: Small bugfix release which closes an
  E_NOTICE issue introduced with release 0.2.3

__ /download/extensions#java-binding 
__ /download/extensions#ant-task
__ /download/releases/index.html
__ /download.html
__ /download/extensions#java-binding
__ /download/extensions#ant-task
__ /download/releases/index.html