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About

Alex Coders's PHP Coding Standards is a set of two PHP_CodeSniffer configuration XML files; the main ruleset.xml config file that define base PHP coding standard, and a second ruleset-strict.xml config file that define strict PHP coding standard.

Alex Coders's PHP Coding Standards is an essential development tool that ensures your code remains clean and consistent.

Requirements

Alex Coders's PHP Coding Standards requires PHP version 5.4.0 or greater and PHP_CodeSniffer version 3.6.0 or greater.

Installation

The easiest way to get started with Alex Coders's PHP Coding Standards is to install it through Composer with the following command:

composer require "alex-the-coder/coding-standards"

Or alternatively, include a dependency for alex-the-coder/coding-standards in your composer.json file. For example:

{
    "require-dev": {
        "alex-the-coder/coding-standards": "^1.0"
    }
}

You can then run PHP_CodeSniffer from the vendor's bin directory to make sure the necessary dependencies and all Alex Coder's PHP Coding Standards are installed correctly:

./vendor/bin/phpcs -h

./vendor/bin/phpcbf -h

./vendor/bin/phpcs -v --standard=./vendor/alex-the-coder/coding-standards/ruleset.xml ./vendor/autoload.php

./vendor/bin/phpcs -v --standard=./vendor/alex-the-coder/coding-standards/ruleset-strict.xml ./vendor/autoload.php

Getting Started

To check a PHP file against the Alex Coders's PHP Coding Standard, use the --standard command line argument and specify the file's location:

./vendor/bin/phpcs -v --standard=./vendor/alex-the-coder/coding-standards/ruleset.xml /path/to/code/myfile.php

Or if you wish to check an entire directory you can specify the directory location instead of a file:

./vendor/bin/phpcs -v --standard=./vendor/alex-the-coder/coding-standards/ruleset.xml /path/to/code-directory

If PHP_CodeSniffer finds any coding standard errors, a report will be shown after running the command.

Full usage information and example reports are available on the usage page.

Custom configuration file

To simplify usage, you can create an XML configuration file ./.phpcs.xml in your project root with the content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ruleset name="PHPCS MyProjectName">
    <rule ref="./vendor/alex-the-coder/coding-standards/ruleset.xml" />
</ruleset>

You can then run simple commands like:

./vendor/bin/phpcs -v /path/to/code/myfile.php

or

./vendor/bin/phpcs -v /path/to/code-directory

See more information about using a Configuration File and Annotated Ruleset.

Full list of Customisable Sniff Properties here.

Documentation

The documentation for PHP_CodeSniffer is available on the Github wiki.

See the Configuration Options manual page.