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magento-ecg/magniffer
=====================

An extendable, XPath driven, static code analysis tool for Magento, built on the top of PHP-Parser library.

1.0(11y ago)7358518[3 issues](https://github.com/magento-ecg/magniffer/issues)MITPHPPHP >=5.4

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magniffer
=========

[](#magniffer)

An extendable, XPath driven, static code analysis tool for Magento, built on the top of PHP-Parser library.

List of Detected Issues
=======================

[](#list-of-detected-issues)

- SQL Queries Within a Loop
- Not Limiting Collection Load Result
- Empty Class
- Empty Method
- Expression is Always True
- Empty Password in Configuration File
- Handling Overly Broad Event
- Use of Global Event
- Configuration Not in adminhtml.xml.

Installation
============

[](#installation)

With [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/):

```
composer require --dev magento-ecg/magniffer

```

Basic Usage
===========

[](#basic-usage)

```
$ php ./vendor/bin/mgf /path/to/files

```

Extending
=========

[](#extending)

It's easy to create a custom inspection by declaring a message, xpath and inspector in YAML file. For example:

```
message   : Empty Class
xpath     : //node:Stmt_Class[count(subNode:stmts/scalar:array/*) = 0]/subNode:name/scalar:string
inspector : php

```

###  Health Score

34

—

LowBetter than 75% of packages

Maintenance19

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity29

Limited adoption so far

Community18

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 84.6% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4118d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/472255?v=4)[Alex Zarichnyi](/maintainers/zlik)[@zlik](https://github.com/zlik)

---

Top Contributors

[![zlik](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/472255?v=4)](https://github.com/zlik "zlik (11 commits)")[![steverobbins](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3498562?v=4)](https://github.com/steverobbins "steverobbins (1 commits)")[![Wohlie](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/329240?v=4)](https://github.com/Wohlie "Wohlie (1 commits)")

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