Blank Lines (PHP)

API ID: CountLineBlankPhp
Languages: Web
Targets: Architectures, Classes, Files, Project

Number of blank PHP lines.

For example:

<?php
// Compute a visitor count for this session
const SITE_NAME = "Understand Demo";

function nextVisit($count) {
  return $count + 1;
}

$visits = 1;
$visits = nextVisit($visits);
echo "You are visitor number " . $visits . " to " . SITE_NAME;

Lines 4 and 8, separating SITE_NAME's declaration, the nextVisit() function, and the visitor-count logic, are the only blank lines, giving CountLineBlankPhp = 2.

See Blank Lines (HTML)/Blank Lines (JavaScript) for the HTML/JavaScript equivalents, and Blank Lines for the language-independent metric this breaks down.

Targets By Language:

• Web: Project, File, PHP Class, PHP Interface

Configuration:

• This metric can be disabled from "Project Configuration/Metrics/Lines and Statements" with the "Show line count metrics" option.
• This metric can be enabled from "Project Configuration/Metrics/Lines and Statements" with the "Breakdown counts by web language" option.