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php mess detector ruleset for laravel and similar frameworks
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ruleset name="Laravel and similar phpmd ruleset"
xmlns="http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset/1.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset/1.0.0 http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset_xml_schema.xsd"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://pmd.sf.net/ruleset_xml_schema.xsd">
<description>
Inspired by https://github.com/phpmd/phpmd/issues/137
using http://phpmd.org/documentation/creating-a-ruleset.html
</description>
<!-- se importan los rulesets, en este caso todos. -->
<rule ref="rulesets/cleancode.xml">
<exclude name="StaticAccess"/>
</rule>
<rule ref="rulesets/codesize.xml/CyclomaticComplexity"/>
<rule ref="rulesets/codesize.xml/NPathComplexity"/>
<rule ref="rulesets/codesize.xml/ExcessiveMethodLength"/>
<rule ref="rulesets/codesize.xml/ExcessiveClassLength"/>
<rule ref="rulesets/codesize.xml/ExcessiveParameterList"/>
<rule ref="rulesets/codesize.xml/ExcessivePublicCount"/>
<rule ref="rulesets/codesize.xml/TooManyFields"/>
<rule ref="rulesets/codesize.xml/TooManyMethods">
<properties>
<property name="maxmethods" value="30"/>
</properties>
</rule>
<rule ref="rulesets/codesize.xml/ExcessiveClassComplexity"/>
<rule ref="rulesets/controversial.xml"/>
<rule ref="rulesets/design.xml">
<exclude name="CouplingBetweenObjects"/>
</rule>
<!-- beware the façades yo. -->
<rule ref="rulesets/design.xml/CouplingBetweenObjects">
<properties>
<property name="minimum" value="20"/>
</properties>
</rule>
<!-- se importa naming y se excluye ShortVariable para ser ajustada despues. -->
<rule ref="rulesets/naming.xml">
<exclude name="ShortVariable"/>
</rule>
<rule ref="rulesets/naming.xml/ShortVariable"
since="0.2"
message="Avoid variables with short names like {0}. Configured minimum length is {1}."
class="PHPMD\Rule\Naming\ShortVariable"
externalInfoUrl="http://phpmd.org/rules/naming.html#shortvariable">
<priority>3</priority>
<properties>
<property name="minimum" description="Minimum length for a variable, property or parameter name" value="3"/>
<property name="exceptions" value="id,q,w,i,j,v,e,f,fp" />
</properties>
</rule>
<rule ref="rulesets/unusedcode.xml"/>
</ruleset>
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mjawaids commented Dec 2, 2016

Does this work with Laravel 5.3?

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Worked for me with Laravel 8. Thank you.

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