How to get SonarQube running to analyze a PHP project? - php

Question

I want to assess SonarQube as a source code inspection tool.
The project is hosted in a git repository, and I want to SonarQube to check my PHP project on each commit.

Answer 1

I got a basic instance of SonarQube via docker. (The current version of sonar cube is 6.7 -- yet I do not know if the steps remain the same. This answer takes into account 5.1.)
Run the container:
sudo docker run -d --name sonarqube -p 9000:9000 -p 9092:9092 sonarqube:5.1
This provides with a standard install of SonarQube accessable at
http://localhost:9000/
I can login via username and passoword admin, and install the PHP component via:
Settings > System > Update Center
(or: http://localhost:9000/updatecenter )
and search for PHP and install.
There I can add PHP and after restart of the SonarQube server, (I did it via docker stop container_id, container start container_id), the extension is loaded.
The server will not run your tests. It will only display the results.
You will need a machine dedicated to work as your sonar-runner, for a quick start you may use your local dev machine and your local checkout from bitbucket. Install the sonar-runner on that machine.
Download the sonar runner via:
$ wget http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/sonar/runner/sonar-runner-dist/2.4/sonar-runner-dist-2.4.zip
and extracted it to:
~/programs/sonar-runner-2.4
In this directory, there you find a file conf/sonar-runner.properties that should contain:
#Configure here general information about the environment, such as SonarQube DB details for example
#No information about specific project should appear here
#----- Default SonarQube server
sonar.host.url=http://localhost:9000
#----- PostgreSQL
#sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost/sonar
#----- MySQL
#sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sonar?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8
#----- Oracle
#sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:oracle:thin:#localhost/XE
#----- Microsoft SQLServer
#sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://localhost/sonar;SelectMethod=Cursor
#----- Global database settings
sonar.jdbc.username=sonar
sonar.jdbc.password=sonar
#----- Default source code encoding
sonar.sourceEncoding=UTF-8
#----- Security (when 'sonar.forceAuthentication' is set to 'true')
sonar.login=admin
sonar.password=admin
Go into your project's root directory and create a file called sonar-project.properties:
# must be unique in a given SonarQube instance
sonar.projectKey=yourProjectKey
# this is the name displayed in the SonarQube UI
sonar.projectName=yourProject
sonar.projectVersion=1.0
# Path is relative to the sonar-project.properties file. Replace "\" by "/" on Windows.
# Since SonarQube 4.2, this property is optional if sonar.modules is set.
# If not set, SonarQube starts looking for source code from the directory containing
# the sonar-project.properties file.
sonar.sources=./classes/,./tests/
# Encoding of the source code. Default is default system encoding
sonar.sourceEncoding=UTF-8
# Encoding of the source code. Default is default system encoding
sonar.sourceEncoding=UTF-8
I then ran:
your/projects/dir$: ~/programs/sonar-runner-2.4/bin/sonar-runner
You will then see an new entry at your SonarCube dashboard.

Answer 2

Get the following:
OpenJDK: 7u55+ of 8
MySQL: 5.1 t/m 5.7
SonarQube: http://dist.sonar.codehaus.org/sonarqube-5.1.zip
Sonar Runner: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/sonar/runner/sonar-runner-dist/2.4/sonar-runner-dist-2.4.zip
Do the following:
Installation: http://docs.sonarqube.org/display/SONAR/Installing
Setup SonarRunner:
#Configure here general information about the environment, such as SonarQube DB details for example
#No information about specific project should appear here
#----- Default SonarQube server
sonar.host.url=http://14.3.1.4:9000
#----- PostgreSQL
#sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost/sonar
#----- MySQL
sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://14.3.1.2:3306/sonarqube? useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8
#----- Oracle
#sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:oracle:thin:#localhost/XE
#----- Microsoft SQLServer
#sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://localhost/sonar;SelectMethod=Cursor
#----- Global database settings
sonar.jdbc.username=sonarqube
sonar.jdbc.password=sonarqube
#----- Default source code encoding
sonar.sourceEncoding=UTF-8
#----- Security (when 'sonar.forceAuthentication' is set to 'true')
#sonar.login=admin
#sonar.password=admin
Clone a git repo in the var/www folder on the server where sonar is at.
Then add a configurationfile in the project you want to check called sonar-project.properties. Here is an Symfony example:
# Required metadata
sonar.projectKey=yoursite.dev.nl.project
sonar.projectName=Project
sonar.projectVersion=1.0
# Comma-separated paths to directories with sources (required)
sonar.projectBaseDir=/var/www/your_project
# Folder being analysed.
sonar.sources=symfony/src
# Language (Only when it is a single language)
sonar.language=php
# Encoding of the source files
sonar.sourceEncoding=UTF-8