Features
Sonar PHP Plugin provides PHP language support to Sonar. The plugin enables all Sonar builtin features for PHP projects. It relies on well known analysis tools for PHP: PHP Unit, PHP Depend, PHPMD, PHPCPD and PHP_CodeSniffer to provide some additionnal metrics and to detect violations.
Sonar PHP Plugin |
PHPUnit |
phpcpd |
PHP Depend |
PHPMD |
PHP_CodeSniffer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0.3 |
3.5.5 |
1.3.1 |
0.9.14 |
0.2.5 |
1.3.0RC1 |
0.4 |
3.5.5 |
1.3.1 |
0.9.14 |
0.2.5 |
1.3.0RC1 |
0.5 |
3.5.5 |
1.3.1 |
0.10.6 |
1.1.0 |
1.3.0RC1 |
0.6 |
3.5.5 |
1.3.2 |
0.10.6 |
1.1.0 |
1.3.1 |
Where to start?
Here are the main steps to get started:
- Install Sonar, the PHP plugin and everything that is needed to run analyses
- Then, choose how you want to run an analysis on your PHP project
Once you're familiar with the plugin, you can dig more into the documentation to discover advanced features (like adding your own PHP CodeSniffer or PHPMD rules into Sonar).
Known limitations
See open issues
Roadmap
- PHP 0.7 - very-short-term activity. (see the JIRA open tickets - ETA: mid-January 2012)
- Big work on the PHP CodeSniffer rule repository (adding missing parameters, descriptions, ...)
- Work on the "Sonar Way", PEAR and Zend profiles (<= for PHP gurus!
) - Other improvements (on PHPUnit, PHPDepend, ...etc)
- PHP 1.0 - mid-term activity
- Tricky-but-important tickets
- If it turns out that those tickets are technically difficult/long to implement, then version 1.0 could be released earlier and those tickets bumped into a 1.x version

