phpsmith

phpsmith

phpsmith creates random PHP and KPHP programs to test their compilers and runtimes.

It can create both valid (but very contrived) and invalid programs.

Features

• Random valid php code generation
• Random invalid php code generation
• Reproducible program generation by seed
• Big generation variability

How it works

Phpsmith can be executed in two modes: fuzz, generate:

• fuzz:

  • infinitely generate php programs
  • run it on php and kphp
  • catch exceptions, segmentation faults, fatal errors
  • compare results between php and kphp
  • save diff in logs

• generate:

  • generate php program by provided seed

Installation

go install github.com/quasilyte/phpsmith

Pre-installation requirements

• php ≥7.0
• kphp ≥9.3.0

Usage

Run phpsmith without arguments to get help output.

Possible commands are:

  version     print phpsmith version info to stdout and exit
  fuzz        run fuzzing using the provided configuration
  generate    generate a program using the provided configuration

fuzz command examples:

phpsmith fuzz -o ~/phpsmith_out

generate command examples:

phpsmith generate -seed 1651182107