Exakat 1.7.6 Review Exakat 1.7.6 provides a new report that configure php-cs-fixer and automates fixes in the code. This means that after a good audit, the code may be systematically updated and cleaned of all issues for the next audit. We also introduced a detector for PHP overridden functions, array_merge() used raw with ellipsis and […]
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Apr
Apr
Exakat 1.7.4 Review This week, Exakat 1.7.4 opened the bug hunt season. Many analysis bugs were tracked and removed from the code, leading to the cleanest version of Exakat yet. Identical files in a code repository are now omitted, but one, automatically. And it is possible to configure the target reports from the command line, […]
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Apr
Apr
Exakat 1.7.3 review This week, Exakat 1.7.3 version upgrades the reports, with the automated detection of identical files, and the grouping of global variables. We shall never know all the good that a simple Exakat 1.7.3 review can do. Report of Identical Files The Ambassador report added a new item on the menu : in […]
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Mar
Mar
Exakat 1.7.2 Review The Exakat 1.7.2 version brings more grunt work for the engine, and fewer surprises for your audits. This week, we extended the support for ignored classes to functions and constants: ignore any file in the configuration, and Exakat keeps in mind when it contains definitions. Also, the automated detection of large libraries […]
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Nov
Nov
Exakat 1.5.5 Review Exakat 1.5.5 is the sinkterklas version : it brings a lot of speed, reports and analysis on its boat, from Spain. Seriously, Exakat 1.5.5 now reports your HTTP headers for unsafe configuration; it also suggests speed up tricks for fputcsv(), and it recommends using the file() functions, instead of fileget_contents(). Then, Exakat […]
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Nov
Nov
Exakat 1.5.4 Review Exakat 1.5.4 is an under-the-hood upgrade. On the visible side, we added a check for unreachable class constants, since class constant got their visibility option; refrain from self in interfaces, as they behave unexpectedly, and should have destructor, for long-running PHP applications. On the hidden side, many refactoring have been applied, and […]
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Oct
Oct
The Land Where PHP Uses eval() It is 2018, and the PHP world useseval() in more than 28% of every PHP code source. It is repeatedly reported as a security issue and a performance bottleneck, and a memory hazard. Yet, we can’t get rid of it. It seems reasonable to think that most of eval […]
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Sep
Sep
Exakat 1.4.6 review Exakat 1.4.6 is mostly made up of bug fixes. A number of edges cases were discovered last week and eradicated : they provide greater stability to the engine. So we took more time to augment the documentation, providing real code case and related PHP error messages that Exakat helps avoid. Error messages […]
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Sep
Sep
Exakat 1.4.5 review Exakat 1.4.5 brings two new reports, and a new analyzer. It also packs a lot of incremental updates. The reports are work-in-progress : the Manual report, which documents your code; and the Weekly report, which brings the community together to hunt for bugs. The new analyzer suggests some default value for argument, […]
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Aug
Aug
Exakat PHP Index of coding Not using @ is the poster child of good practices. It’s also looked upon, as an impossible goal. Did you know that the @ operator is only merely used by 50% of PHP applications ? Same for parenthesis with include and co : don’t use them, like 50% of the […]