The document discusses improving quality assurance on PHP projects through various tools. It introduces tools for syntax checking (PHPLint), documentation (PHPDocumentor), coding standards (PHP_CodeSniffer), duplication detection (PHPCPD), complexity/quality analysis (PDepend, PHPMD), testing (PHPUnit), packaging (Phar), and automation (Phing). Examples are provided of integrating these tools into a sample PHP project to continuously check code quality during development.

1. Improving QA on PHP
projects
Michelangelo van Dam
ZendCon2010, Santa Clara, CA (USA)

2. Michelangelo van Dam
• Independent Consultant
• Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE)
• President of PHPBenelux

3. What’s the benefit of QA?
• early detection of issues
• cleaner & consistent code
• knowledge about the codebase
• increase of confidence

4. Sebastian Bergmann
• QA expert
• wrote the tools
• speaker and inspirer

5. Usual Suspects
PHP_CodeSniffer

6. Example Code
• Zend Framework QuickStart app
- http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/learning.quickstart.intro.html

7. <VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /srv/www/quickstart/public
ServerName quickstart.local
ServerAdmin root@localhost
<Directory /srv/www/quickstart/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
DirectoryIndex index.php
</Directory>
Alias /reports /srv/www/quickstart/reports
<Directory /srv/www/quickstart/reports>
Options Indexes FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
VirtualHost Settings

8. Showtime

9. Syntax Checking
• PHPLint
- comes with PHP binary
- validates code for syntax errors
• Website
- http://www.icosaedro.it/phplint/

10. Demo PHPLint

11. Code Documentation
• PHPDocumentator
- creates automated API documentation
- based on inline code blocks
• Installation
- pear install PhpDocumentor
• Website
- http://www.phpdoc.org

12. Demo PHPDoc

13. Output PHPDoc

14. Coding Standards
• PHP_CodeSniffer
- sniffs for coding standard violations
- ensures code is clean and consistent
- using standard and custom coding standards
• Installation
- pear install PHP_CodeSniffer
• Website
- http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer

15. Demo PHP_CodeSniffer

16. PHPCPD
• PHP Copy/Paste Detector
- detects code duplication
• Installation
- pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
- pear channel-discover components.ez.no
- pear install --alldeps phpunit/phpcpd
• Website
- http://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpcpd

17. Demo PHPCPD

18. Output

19. Mess Detection
• PDepend & PHPMD
- detects code mess
• Installation
- pear channel-discover pear.pdepend.org
- pear install pdepend/PHP_Depend
- pear channel-discover pear.phpmd.org
- pear install phpmd/PHP_PMD
• Websites
- http://www.pdepend.org
- http://www.phpmd.org

20. Demo detecting mess

21. Output codesize

22. Output unused code

23. Unit Testing
• PHPUnit
- tests code on unit level
- includes database tests
- integrates well with many PHP frameworks
• Installation
- pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
- pear install phpunit/PHPUnit
• Website
- http://www.phpunit.de

24. See other presentation
http://slideshare.net/DragonBe/unit-testing-after-zf-18

25. Packaging
• Phar
- PHP Archive (equivalent of Java jar)
- compresses and collects like
- included in PHP build (as of PHP 5.3.0)
• Installation (before PHP 5.3.0)
- pecl install phar
• Website:
- http://php.net/phar

26. Code example
<?php
include_once ‘phar://MyApp.phar/path/to/Class.php’;
$application = new Class;
$application->run();

27. Usage
• libraries
• modules
• images
• plugins
• deployment

28. Automated builds
• Phing
- automated build tool
- like Apache Ant
- integrates well with other PHP tools
• Installation
- pear channel-discover pear.phing.info
- pear install phing/phing
• Website
- http://phing.info

29. build.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="zfqs" description="Zend Framework QuickStart" default="build" >
<target name="version">
<version releasetype="Bugfix" file="build.version" property="version.number"/>
</target>
<target name="phplint">
<mkdir dir="./reports/phplint" />
<phplint file="./application/models" haltonfailure="false" tofile="./reports/phplint/errors.txt"/>
</target>
<target name="pdepend">
<mkdir dir="./reports/pdepend" />
<copy file="./build_pdepend.html" tofile="./reports/pdepend/index.html" overwrite="true" />
<exec command="/usr/bin/pdepend
--summary-xml=./reports/pdepend/summary.xml
--jdepend-chart=./reports/pdepend/jdepend.svg
--overview-pyramid=./reports/pdepend/pyramid.svg
./application/models"
dir="./" />
</target>
<target name="phpmd">
<mkdir dir="./reports/phpmd" />
<exec command="/usr/bin/phpmd ./application/models html codesize --reportfile ./reports/phpmd/codesize.html" dir="./" />
<exec command="/usr/bin/phpmd ./application/models html unusedcode --reportfile ./reports/phpmd/unusedcode.html" dir="./" />
</target>
<target name="phpcs">
<mkdir dir="./reports/phpcs" />
<exec command="/usr/bin/phpcs -n --standard=Zend --report=summary ./application/models > ./reports/phpcs/summary.txt" dir="./" />
<exec command="/usr/bin/phpcs -n --standard=Zend --report=source ./application/models > ./reports/phpcs/source.txt" dir="./" />
<exec command="/usr/bin/phpcs -n --standard=Zend --report=checkstyle ./application/models > ./reports/phpcs/checkstyle.xml" dir="./" />
</target>
<target name="phpcpd">
<mkdir dir="./reports/phpcpd" />
<exec command="/usr/bin/phpcpd --log-pmd ./reports/phpcpd/pmd-cpd.xml ./application/models" dir="./" />
</target>
<target name="phpdoc">
<mkdir dir="./reports/phpdoc" />
<exec command="phpdoc -d ./application/models -q -t ./reports/phpdoc -o HTML:frames:earthli" dir="./" />
</target>
<target name="build" depends="version,phplint,pdepend,phpmd,phpcs,phpcpd,phpdoc">
<echo msg="Finishing build process ${version.number}" />
</target>
</project>

30. project definition
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="zfqs" description="Zend Framework QuickStart" default="build" >
…
</project>

31. target version
<target name="version">
<version releasetype="Bugfix"
file="build.version" property="version.number"/>
</target>
In file “build.version” we have the version number as the following sequence:
MAJOR.MINOR.BUGFIX (starting at 0.0.0)

32. target phplint
<target name="phplint">
<mkdir dir="./reports/phplint" />
<phplint file="./application/models"
haltonfailure="false" tofile="./reports/phplint/errors.txt"/>
</target>

33. target pdepend
<target name="pdepend">
<mkdir dir="./reports/pdepend" />
<copy file="./build_pdepend.html"
tofile="./reports/pdepend/index.html" overwrite="true" />
<exec command="/usr/bin/pdepend
--summary-xml=./reports/pdepend/summary.xml
--jdepend-chart=./reports/pdepend/jdepend.svg
--overview-pyramid=./reports/pdepend/pyramid.svg
./application/models"
dir="./" />
</target>

34. target phpmd
<target name="phpmd">
<mkdir dir="./reports/phpmd" />
<exec command="/usr/bin/phpmd ./application/models html codesize
--reportfile ./reports/phpmd/codesize.html" dir="./" />
<exec command="/usr/bin/phpmd ./application/models html unusedcode
--reportfile ./reports/phpmd/unusedcode.html" dir="./" />
</target>

35. target phpcs
<target name="phpcs">
<mkdir dir="./reports/phpcs" />
<exec command="/usr/bin/phpcs -n
--standard=Zend --report=summary
./application/models > ./reports/phpcs/summary.txt"
dir="./" />
<exec command="/usr/bin/phpcs -n
--standard=Zend --report=source
./application/models > ./reports/phpcs/source.txt"
dir="./" />
<exec command="/usr/bin/phpcs -n
--standard=Zend --report=checkstyle
./application/models > ./reports/phpcs/checkstyle.xml"
dir="./" />
</target>

36. target phpcpd
<target name="phpcpd">
<mkdir dir="./reports/phpcpd" />
<exec command="/usr/bin/phpcpd
--log-pmd ./reports/phpcpd/pmd-cpd.xml ./application/models"
dir="./" />
</target>

37. target phpdoc
<target name="phpdoc">
<mkdir dir="./reports/phpdoc" />
<exec command="phpdoc -d ./application/models -q
-t ./reports/phpdoc -o HTML:frames:earthli"
dir="./" />
</target>

38. target build
<target name="build"
depends="version,phplint,pdepend,phpmd,phpcs,phpcpd,phpdoc">
<echo msg="Finishing build process ${version.number}" />
</target>

39. Demo building all

40. Demo building target

41. Our reports section

42. Summary
PHP offers lots of tools
more consistent and clean code
automated process

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