Exakat 1.9.9 Review Exakat focuses on automated updates this week : two new reports (and sections) provide recommendations to use Rector and Php-cs-fixer for fixing, en masse, issues found during an audit. Also, no less than 9 new rules were added to Exakat, and a new inventory for mbstring encoding. The Exakat 1.9.9 review is the best […]
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Oct
Oct
Exakat 1.9.8 Review This week, Exakat upgrades the presentation of the inventories. It refactored the method definition detection, and added new rule for hiding parameters and wrong case. Several modernisations were applied, in particular to the ‘Insufficient typehint’ rule. Coding is inherently risky, and it helps to readd the Exakat 1.9.7 review. Upgraded Inventories Code […]
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Jul
Jul
Exakat 1.8.6 Review Exakat 1.8.6 is a performance version. First, Exakat moved to Tinkergraph 3.4.2, using the latest and brightest of the graph database. Several analyses were refactored for faster processing, then the Query engine was optimized to skip side queries when possible. And finally, we’re working on loading time, both directly and with the […]
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Jun
Jun
Exakat 1.8.3 Review Exakat 1.8.3 has been refactoring a lot of property and method infrastructure. We are now quite satisfied with the new handling of properties, even if some unit tests are still not passing. In the meantime, we added new tactical checks : how to speed up usage of magic properties, by choosing the […]
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Jun
Jun
Configure exakat with .exakat.yml, and run it in your CI pipeline.
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Feb
Feb
Exakat 1.6.6 Review The Exakat 1.6.6 was born in Miami, during sunshine PHP 19. The conference is incredibly energetic, and with the help of fellow attendees, it provided inspiration for some interesting update : PHP supports strings with logical operators (good for security); Exakat reviews typehint and check if they are sufficient in the method […]
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Jan
Jan
Exakat 1.6.3 Review This is the Exakat 1.6.3 review for the 2019 new year! New analyzers focus on the upcoming speed boost for array_key_exists(), and the sometimes missing capturing subpatterns from preg_match(). The Ambassador report now includes a ‘new issues’ section, which displays only the most recently found issues in the code, since the last […]
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Jan
Jan
Build Your Own Coding Reference With Exakat When reviewing PHP code with Exakat, there are always more issues than time to fix them. There is a time to learn from audited code, and time to focus on fixing. Both of them have their own rule set. Exakat provides several ways to make a selection among […]
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Dec
Dec
Exakat 1.5.7 Review This week, on the Exakat 1.5.7 review : the ambassador report is augmented with the traits matrix and the ‘New issues’ section. We added support for ext/wasm and ext/async, two very interesting new extensions. Self referring traits and methods that could be static are some of the new rules. And the old […]
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Dec
Dec
Exakat 1.5.6 Review This week, on radio Exakat 1.5.6 : we added analysis to report the too verbose isset($a) && isset($a[1]), support for the SDL extension, and a check on useless trait’s method aliases. We also fixed a nest of nasty syntax, thanks to PHP own unit tests. Quick, Robin, to the Exakat 1.5.6 review. […]