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Code Lines (PHP) is one of the source-code metrics Understand computes across 17+ languages — browse them in the GUI, export and track them, or script them with the Python API.

Code Lines (PHP)

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

Number of PHP lines containing source code.

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;

Of the 11 total lines, 8 contain code — every line except the two blank lines (4, 8) and the comment (2), including the opening <?php tag itself (line 1) — giving CountLineCodePhp = 8.

See Code Lines for the combined count across all languages, and Code Lines (JavaScript) for the JavaScript equivalent.

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