February 25-27, 2026
Montreal, Canada
Custom PHPStan Rules: Automate Standards and Save Time
PHPStan is best known for its ability to catch bugs, but did you know it can do so much more? By creating custom PHPStan rules you can enforce your project-specific coding standards, automate tedious review tasks, and ensure a consistent codebase - all without manual intervention.
This talk will guide you through step by step the process of creating a custom PHPStan rule, soon you'll be crafting your own!
This talk will guide you through step by step the process of creating a custom PHPStan rule, soon you'll be crafting your own!
Dave Liddament
Lamp Bristol
Dave is a director and developer at Lamp Bristol, a software consultancy. He’s been writing software commercially for over 22 years in many languages including C, Python, Java and PHP.
Dave is keen to pass on his knowledge. He speaks at conferences and user groups. He is an organiser of PHP-SW. He also runs a monthly workshop that covers topics including testing, CI and git.
He is also the author of an open source tool called SARB (static analysis results baseliner).
