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PHP

PHP static code analysis

Unique rules to find Bugs, Vulnerabilities, Security Hotspots, and Code Smells in your PHP code

  • All rules 273
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  • Code Smell146
Filtered: 3 rules found
obsolete
    Impact
      Clean code attribute
        1. Alias functions should not be used

           Code Smell
        2. Deprecated features should not be used

           Code Smell
        3. References should not be passed to function calls

           Code Smell

        Alias functions should not be used

        consistency - conventional
        maintainability
        Code Smell
        • obsolete

        Why is this an issue?

        Certain functions exist in PHP only as aliases of other functions. These aliases have been made available for backward compatibility, but should really be removed from code.

        This rule looks for uses of the following aliases:

        Alias Replacement

        chop

        rtrim

        close

        closedir

        doubleval

        floatval

        fputs

        fwrite

        ini_alter

        ini_set

        is_double

        is_float

        is_integer

        is_int

        is_long

        is_int

        is_real

        is_float

        is_writeable

        is_writable

        join

        implode

        key_exists

        array_key_exists

        magic_quotes_runtime

        set_magic_quotes_runtime

        pos

        current

        show_source

        highlight_file

        sizeof

        count

        strchr

        strstr

        Noncompliant code example

        $arr=array("apple", "pear","banana");
        echo sizeof($arr);  // Noncompliant
        

        Compliant solution

        $arr=array("apple", "pear","banana");
        echo count($arr);
        
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