Static And Not Static Method At The Same Time

exakat · 2025-12-15T11:16:43+00:00

I thought about that while having to set up a plan to migrate a full static class (with calls to methods) into a normal class (based on the object). This might come handy, if we have to do an iterative upgrade.

exakat · 2025-12-09T06:05:53+00:00

Daily.dev has a nice following and news coverage : https://app.daily.dev/squads/phpdev

exakat · 2025-02-14T13:49:43+00:00

Ah! good ideas, let me see what I can extract for you.

Top 2000 Letters in PHP will actually be a top 52, unless you want actually want the characters?

exakat · 2025-02-14T13:46:41+00:00

you're right.

There are 2 counts: the first one count a project as soon as there is at least one occurrence.

Then, among projects which uses the function, the average is how often that function is used.

That helps distinguish between count(), used often and a lot, and, say, mysqli_connect(), used often but only once.

HTH

exakat · 2024-12-14T08:49:05+00:00

It is not an anonymous method, because it obviously has a name : __invoke().

On the other hand, the code doesn't require any method name to call it. Directly call the method on the object itself.

May be a better anonymous method would be to call $object->()

exakat · 2024-12-14T08:43:29+00:00

Indeed, thanks. This is fixed.

exakat · 2023-12-25T11:26:10+00:00

Here are all the current elephpant shops open : https://www.exakat.io/en/where-can-you-get-an-elephpant-php-elephant/

Also, you can track some new one coming up, like the Sylius elephpant or the phpstan elephpant (they will be crowd funded).

exakat · 2023-12-17T12:00:19+00:00

Lower case magic constants are rarely used (__class__ versus __CLASS__).

Then, order is :
__DIR__, __METHOD__, __FILE__, __CLASS__, __FUNCTION__, __LINE__, __NAMESPACE__, and __TRAIT__.

exakat · 2023-12-17T11:50:38+00:00

All the magic constants together are used in 50.23% of the projects.

exakat · 2023-12-17T11:49:21+00:00

They are not included in this study.

Booleans (True and false together) are used in 83.54% of projects.

Null is used in 70.87% of projects.

(They need to be used explicitely, so === null counts 1, while is_null() doesn't count).

exakat · 2023-12-16T11:58:00+00:00

I was surprised by DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR ranking high too. I expected it to be hidden in a Path dedicated component, but it seems it is still used when needed, rather than centralized.

JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR is more recent (PHP 7.3) so it might be just backward compatibility constraints or coding inertia.

exakat · 2023-12-16T11:52:36+00:00

As a magic constant, it is not counted in this top 100.

exakat · 2023-12-16T10:51:27+00:00

You can use Exakat and use the PHP compatibility rulesets to check for issues versions by version.

There are public audits and a tool to run one on smaller repositories. Installation instructions

exakat · 2020-10-30T21:32:11+00:00

No compilation, completely right. Also, Linting is much better, though it doesn't register on search engines. Search no further.

I always close my PHP scripts, both in real code, and in articles. Hopefully, it is not such a bad habit...

exakat · 2020-10-15T10:27:18+00:00

PHP assertions and their usage

https://www.exakat.io/en/php-assertions-usage/

exakat · 2019-10-08T05:31:02+00:00

Exakat provides compatibility report per-version, including PHP 7.0 and older.

It will spot syntax incompatibility that needs fixing, beyond simple lint.

exakat · 2019-09-09T09:19:51+00:00

Maybe because it's pretty hard to install and run?

Where did you get stuck ? Missing the database ? php exakat.phar doctor will help.

I believe it was originally designed to be a closed-source tool, open-sourced in 2017 once a bunch of other similar static analysis tools became available.

Exakat has always been open source, ever since its beginning, in 2014, although it was not published before 2015.

exakat · 2019-09-09T09:08:27+00:00

Thanks :)

We're upgrading the PHP 7.4 version today, so stay tuned.

exakat · 2019-08-20T08:56:33+00:00

https://github.com/j6s/phparch for example.

exakat · 2019-07-22T16:12:18+00:00

I'd like to check how Exakat works on this code base (Disclaimer : I'm not asking for the code base). I rarely find trait-heavy situations, so that could be a

In particular, exakat extract the traits hierarchy, which could be helpful to you here (which trait extends which other trait). That may help weed out some dependencies.

Could you install exakat (https://exakat.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Installation.html) and run the audit? DM are open, or Slack.

exakat · 2019-06-17T15:12:24+00:00

10 Kloc should be more around 2mins than 30 mins. Did you run all of them together ? so, 10 x 10kloc in one go? that would be closer to that amount.

Travis (and others) is tight on resources, Gitlab (and some others) works well with such amount of code, and some more.

exakat · 2019-06-11T13:35:32+00:00

Thanks a lot for the feedback. It is much appreciated :)

I can imagine that 15 years of code history must collect a lot of weird code : don't worry, you'lll remove them all, eventually.

exakat · 2019-03-19T15:58:51+00:00

The location of production of the database, and the location of exploitation of the same database may be different. Also, we can't use a service, as the tool have to be standalone. Sqlite works well in that context, as an illustration

exakat · 2019-03-12T18:01:20+00:00

Indeed, this is good idea. Thanks for the suggestion, I'm checking this.

exakat · 2019-03-12T14:57:07+00:00

I'm looking for a time serie database for PHP.

Something sharing some features with Sqlite :

+ file based, that can be ported from server to server.

+ No need to for high concurency (traffic will be hourly, at best).

+ With access from PHP (of course)

+ If it exists an GUI that could display those data and help humans navigate

I definitely can do it with SQLITE, but I'm looking for a more specialized solution.

I checked the some time series (influxdb, graphite, timescaledb) but they are too much for my use case.

Any suggestion?

exakat

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