PDC for PHP

Learn how PDC, a smart little worker that checks on your PHP source code's class dependencies, can help to save precious software development time.

To find out more about PDC, visit https://github.com/packfire/pdc

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1. PDC for PHP Smart little worker that checks on your PHP source code's class dependencies. Sam-Mauris Yong HeartCode Singapore sam@mauris.sg http://mauris.sg/ @_mauris 1 Dec 2012 Sam-Mauris Yong 1
2. What is PDC? • Packfire Dependency Checker • Minimal CLI tool written in PHP • Class dependency problems in PHP • Generates a little report 1 Dec 2012 Sam-Mauris Yong 2
3. Checks for… • Unused use statement; • Missing declaration of a class being used; • Namespace that doesn't exist according to PSR-0; • Files without namespace declaration. 1 Dec 2012 Sam-Mauris Yong 3
4. Why PDC? • Classes are loaded real-time with autoloaders. • Misspelled namespaces or classnames undetected. • Difficult to check until execution • IDEs do not report such errors. 1 Dec 2012 Sam-Mauris Yong 4
5. Reporting $ php pdc.phar src Packfire Dependency Checker Tool Written by Sam-Mauris Yong v1.0.1 [src/Packfire/helper.php]: Warning: no namespace found. [src/Packfire/constants.php]: Warning: no namespace found. [src/Packfire/Cache/MemCache.php]: Not found: \Memcache Time: 0.60394 seconds Completed. Summary: 300 files 2 warnings 1 dependency not found 1 Dec 2012 Sam-Mauris Yong 5
6. Writing better codes • Saves time – Debugging – Manually checking • Can be attached to Continuous Integration build jobs: Automation! 1 Dec 2012 Sam-Mauris Yong 6
7. Usage • One argument to determine source code destination. $ php pdc.phar src 1 Dec 2012 Sam-Mauris Yong 7
8. Usage with Travis-CI • Add following to .travis.yml config file: • Reports will generate after PHPUnit on Travis-CI. after_script: - "wget --quiet http://mauris.sg/bin/pdc.phar && php pdc.phar src" 1 Dec 2012 Sam-Mauris Yong 8
9. More about PDC • Official repository: https://github.com/packfire/pdc 1 Dec 2012 Sam-Mauris Yong 9
10. Thank you! 1 Dec 2012 Sam-Mauris Yong 10