On the Exakat.io blog there's a post continuing on from a "dos and donts" article about programmer practices. In this new post cover some of the rules in a bit more detail from the original article.

Last week, I ran into ‘PHP Dos and Don’ts aka Programmers I Don’t Like‘ on reddit’s PHP group. It features a list of 11 points that the author hates finding in PHP code. [...] The most interesting point is that coding references are used to asses code. They may very well be automated, thanks to static analysis. I thought it was a good challenge for Exakat.

The list covers several of the rules in the list, providing a brief explanation (and a bit of how it relates back to PHP) including:

• Unnecessary casting
• Extra bracket and braces
• Lack of coding standard
• Too many nested if statements

He ends the post with a bit of detail about how the Exakat service is checking for these "failures" in it's newer "RadwellCode" report. He even gives the scores of some of the more well-known and used PHP projects including the Zend Framework (v1.12), WordPress, Composer and even Exakat itself.