Configure phan static analysis tool for a Yii2 project

yii2-phan.md

Configure phan static analysis tool for a Yii2 project

Prerequisites:

• Windows 10
• Git bash
• XAMPP portable with PHP 7.0
• php and composer on path

Steps to configure

• wget https://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/releases/ast/0.1.6/php_ast-0.1.6-7.0-ts-vc14-x86.zip
• extract php_ast.dll to $PHP/ext
• add extension=php_ast.dll to php.ini
• composer require phpdocumentor/reflection-docblock:~4.3.0
• composer require phan/phan
• add the autoload to composer.json

"autoload": {
    "psr-4": {
        "": ["common/", "frontend/"]
    }
}

• Generate conifg, set the analysis level to the most forgiving level:
  • .\vendor\bin\phan --init --init-level=5 (only if .phar/config.php not exists)
  • .\vendor\bin\phan
• Or set it to the most restriciteve level:
  • .\vendor\bin\phan --init --init-level=1 --init-overwrite
  • .\vendor\bin\phan

Source

• https://youtu.be/rKXFgWP-2xQ
• https://github.com/phan/phan/wiki/Getting-Started

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'php_ast.dll' (tried: C:\PHP\ext\php_ast.dll (The specified module could not be found), C:\PHP\ext\php_php_ast.dll.dll (The specified module could not be found)) in Unknown on line 0

could you please help me out for this