PHP - static type checking a-la PhpStorm

Question

I am a strongly-typed language supporter but I am working on a big PHP project.

I have been using PhpStorm and I love the extra type hinting you can provide, with commen

Answer 1

For static code analysis, specifically helping with type error detection, one can use tools like

• https://github.com/scrutinizer-ci/php-analyzer
• https://github.com/colder/phantm/
• https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/hhvm-wrapper/
• https://github.com/troelskn/php-tracer-weaver
• php -l

PHPCS aka PHP_CodeSniffer is Coding Standard checker, not really helpful with type error detection.