README

php-coding-standard (phpcstd)

phpcstd combines various code quality tools (e.g. linting and static analysis) into one, easy to use package which can be shared across teams and code bases.

There are two parts to this:

1. phpcstd executes all the enabled tools and returns a single per-file error output
2. In your projects, you depend on a single repository (e.g. acme/coding-standard) which depends on phpcstd and includes the various base configurations (e.g. phpmd.xml, ecs.yaml, ...). Your own projects then depend on your own coding standard.

phpcstd itself does not come with any tools preinstalled. You can take a look at my own coding standards as an example.

Tools supported

⭐ = recommended

Getting started

composer require-dev spaceemotion/php-coding-standard 

This will install the phpcstd binary to your vendor folder.

Configuration via .phpcstd(.dist).ini

To minimize dependencies, phpcstd uses .ini-files for its configuration. If no .phpcstd.ini file can be found in your project folder, a .phpcstd.dist.ini file will be used as fallback (if possible).

Command options

Usage: run [options] [--] [<files>...] Arguments: files List of files to parse instead of the configured sources Options: -s, --skip=SKIP Disables the list of tools during the run (comma-separated list) (multiple values allowed) -o, --only=ONLY Only executes the list of tools during the run (comma-separated list) (multiple values allowed) --continue Run the next check even if the previous one failed --fix Try to fix any linting errors --hide-source Hides the "source" lines from console output --lint-staged Uses "git diff" to determine staged files to lint --ci Changes the output format to GithubActions for better CI integration --no-fail Only returns with exit code 0, regardless of any errors/warnings -h, --help Display help for the given command. When no command is given display help for the run command -q, --quiet Do not output any message -V, --version Display this application version --ansi Force ANSI output --no-ansi Disable ANSI output -n, --no-interaction Do not ask any interactive question -v|vv|vvv, --verbose Increase the verbosity of messages: 1 for normal output, 2 for more verbose output and 3 for debug 

Instead of defining the files/folders directly (in either the config or as arguments), you can also pipe a list into it:

$ ls -A1 | vendor/bin/phpcstd 

Git Hooks

To not have to wait for CI pipelines to finish, you can use git hooks to run over the changed files before committing.

vendor/bin/phpcstd --lint-staged

CI-Support

Github Actions

The --ci flag returns a format that can be used by GithubActions to annotate commits and PRs (see their documentation on how this works).

Development

Using Docker

1. Spin up the container using GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN=<token> docker-compose up -d --build
2. Run all commands using docker-compose exec php <command here>

Using XDebug

This project uses composer/xdebug-handler to improve performance by disabling xdebug upon startup. To enable XDebug during development you need to set the following env variable: PHPCSTD_ALLOW_XDEBUG=1 (as written in their README).