Run PHP Mess Detector tests in Github Actions.

PHP Mess Detector (PHPMD) takes a given PHP source code base and looks for several potential problems within that source. These problems can be things like:

• Possible bugs
• Suboptimal code
• Overcomplicated expressions
• Unused parameters, methods, properties

Usage

name: CI

on: [push]

jobs:
  build-and-test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Composer install
        uses: php-actions/composer@v6

      - name: PHP Mess Detector
        uses: php-actions/phpmd@v1
        with:
          php_version: 8.1
          path: src/
          output: text
          ruleset: test/phpmd/ruleset.xml

Version numbers

This action is released with semantic version numbers, but also tagged so the latest major release's tag always points to the latest release within the matching major version.

Please feel free to use uses: php-actions/phpmd@v1 to always run the latest version of v1, or uses: php-actions/[email protected] to specify the exact release.

Inputs

The following configuration options are available:

• version - What version of PHPMD to use
• php_version - What version of PHP to use
• vendored_phpmd_path - Path to a vendored phpmd binary
• path - A php source code filename or directory. Can be a comma-separated string
• ruleset - A ruleset filename or a comma-separated string of rulesetfilenames
• output - A report format
• minimumpriority - rule priority threshold; rules with lower priority than this will not be used
• reportfile - send report output to a file; default to STDOUT
• suffixes - comma-separated string of valid source code filename extensions, e.g. php,phtml
• exclude - comma-separated string of patterns that are used to ignore directories. Use asterisks to exclude by pattern. For example src/foo/.php or src/foo/
• strict - also report those nodes with a @SuppressWarnings annotation
• args - Extra arguments to pass to the phpmd binary

If you require other configurations of PHPMD, please request them in the Github issue tracker.

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