PHPMD - PHP Mess Detector

Downloads

Installing as a Phar

You can always fetch the latest stable version as a Phar archive through the following version agnostic link: :

~ $ wget -c https://phpmd.org/static/latest/phpmd.phar

The Phar files of PHPMD are signed with a public key associated to pgp@phpmd.org.. The key(s) associated with this E-Mail address can be queried at keys.openpgp.org.

Installing using PHIVE

Alternatively, PHPMD can be installed through PHAR Installation and Verification Environment (PHIVE). After installing PHIVE,PHPMD can be installed using the following command: :

php phive.phar install phpmd
Phive 0.15.2 - Copyright (C) 2015-2023 by Arne Blankerts, Sebastian Heuer and Contributors
Fetching repository list
Downloading key 9093F8B32E4815AA
Trying to connect to keys.openpgp.org (37.218.245.50)
Successfully downloaded key.

        Fingerprint: E7A7 4510 2ECC 980F 7338 B307 9093 F8B3 2E48 15AA

        PHPMD (PHP Mess Detector) <pgp@phpmd.org>

        Created: 2023-09-15

Import this key? [y|N] y
  Linking Y:\\.phive\phars/phpmd-2.14.1.phar to /path/to/your/project/tools/phpmd.bat

There are alternative commands for PHIVE.

Installing via Composer

Create a composer.json file in your project directory and add PHPMD as a required dependency: :

{
    "require-dev": {
        "phpmd/phpmd" : "@stable"
    }
}

Then install Composer in your project (or download the composer.phar directly): :

~ $ curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php

And finally let Composer install the project dependencies: :

~ $ php composer.phar install

From the github repository

If you like to participate on the social coding platform GitHub, you can use PHPMD's mirror to fork and contribute to PHPMD. :

~ $ git clone git://github.com/phpmd/phpmd.git

Then cd into the checkout directory initialize the referenced sub modules: :

~ $ cd phpmd
~/phpmd $ git submodule update --init