PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer

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PHP_CodeSniffer is a set of two PHP scripts: phpcs tokenizes PHP files to detect violations of a defined coding standard, and phpcbf automatically corrects those violations. It is the official continuation of the abandoned squizlabs package and supports standards like PSR1 and PSR12.

Use cases

• enforce PSR-12 coding standards on a PHP codebase
• automatically fix coding standard violations in PHP files
• run code style checks in CI pipelines
• check PHP code style before committing
• customize a coding standard for a PHP team

When to choose

• you need to enforce or auto-fix PHP coding standards
• you want a mature, widely adopted PHP linting tool with CI integration

When to avoid

• you need full static analysis beyond style checking (use PHPStan or Psalm)
• you are linting languages other than PHP

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

linter formatter static-site-generator cli developer-tools developer-tools testing php cli cross-platform coding-standards phpcs phpcbf psr12 static-analysis code-quality qa command-line automation

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