It's obviously not as comprehensive as compiled or strictly-typed languages, but you can use "php -l" as a linter to catch obvious parsing/syntax bugs. I use th

It's obviously not as comprehensive as compiled or strictly-typed languages, but you can use "php -l" as a linter to catch obvious parsing/syntax bugs. I use this script to check our whole codebase before deployment: > find . -name "*.php" -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 -P8 php -l | grep -v "No syntax errors detected"