May 5th, 2024
Continuing yesterday's thought on strictness in PHP , today I want to talk about adding more strictness to PHPStan.
Adding the PHPStan Strict Rules extension makes PHPStan stricter by adding new, more opinionated rules.
For example:
Require booleans in if, elseif, ternary operator, after !, and on both sides of && and ||.
Use the $strict
parameter with in_array
, array_search
, array_keys
and base64_decode
.
Disallow empty().
Require calling parent constructor.
You can enable and disable rules as needed but, like setting the PHPStan level, ideally I like to enable them all by default and see how strict I go.
It depends on the code being tested and the preference of the team, though I find the stricter the rules, the less bugs there are.
- Oliver
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