squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer

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PHP_CodeSniffer is a pair of PHP CLI scripts (phpcs and phpcbf) that tokenize PHP, JavaScript, and CSS files to detect violations of defined coding standards and automatically fix them. This original squizlabs repository has been abandoned in favor of the PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer successor.

Use cases

• enforce coding standards in php projects
• automatically fix code style violations
• run code style checks in ci pipeline
• lint php files against psr standards
• keep team codebase consistent

When to choose

• you need battle-tested php coding standard enforcement with auto-fixing
• you want psr-1/psr-12 or custom sniff-based standards
• you need a phar or composer-installable linter for legacy php versions

When to avoid

• starting a new project - use the maintained PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer fork instead
• you need linting for languages beyond php, js, and css
• you need deep static analysis rather than style checking

Facets

cli-tool · maturity abandoned

linter formatter cli developer-tools developer-tools testing php cli cross-platform static-analysis coding-standards phpcs phpcbf code-style qa command-line automation

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