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Measure Lines of Code and PHP Features Used

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Lines is a CLI tool by Tomas Votruba that measures lines of code and features used in PHP projects. It has zero dependencies, runs anywhere, and provides PHP-specific metrics such as the number of classes, the number of public methods, and more:

$ vendor/bin/lines measure app/
 
Filesystem count
Directories ......................................... 32
Files .............................................. 160
 
Lines of code count / relative
Code ................................... 15 521 / 70.9 %
Comments ................................ 6 372 / 29.1 %
Total .................................. 21 893 / 100 %
 
Structure count
Namespaces .......................................... 32
Classes ............................................ 134
* Constants ........................................ 91
* Methods ....................................... 1 114
Interfaces .......................................... 20
Traits ............................................... 4
Enums ................................................ 1
Functions ........................................... 36
Global constants ..................................... 0
 
Methods count / relative
Non-static .............................. 1 058 / 95 %
Static ..................................... 56 / 5 %
 
Public .................................... 875 / 78.5 %
Protected .................................. 90 / 8.1 %
Private ................................... 149 / 13.4 %

It also includes JSON formatting for further processing, a PHP feature counter showing you which modern features your codebase uses, and other helpful insights.

Main Features

  • Install anywhere - PHP 7.2? PHPUnit 6? Symfony 3? Not a problem, this package has zero dependencies and works on PHP 7.2+
  • Project size - get quick overview of your project size - no details, no complexity, just lines of code
  • JSON output - Get easy JSON output for further processing
  • PHP Features - measure used PHP features in your project (i.e., how many PHP 8.0-features used, how many attributes, etc.)

🧑‍💻 You can get started with this package on GitHub: TomasVotruba/lines

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