PHP Coding Standard

Requirements

PHP_CodeSniffer 3. (3.6 or greater).

Global install (Recommended)

Globally install PHP_CodeSniffer with one of the various methods. (Skip this step if you already have it installed.)

Once complete you should be able to execute phpcs -i on the command line.

You should see something like:-

The installed coding standards are MySource, PEAR, PSR1, PSR2, Squiz and Zend.

(Recommended) use composer...

composer global require tuannda/php-coding-standard

or clone this repository...

git clone -b master --depth 1 https://github.com/tuannda/php-coding-standard.git.

or download.

Take note of the paths where they were installed.

(Recommended) Create a symbolic link to the 'php-coding-standard/CodingStandard' directory in 'php_codesniffer/src/Standards/' eg.

ln -s ~/Documents/Projects/php-coding-standard/CodingStandard ~/.composer/vendor/squizlabs/php_codesniffer/src/Standards/CodingStandard

or copy the CodingStandard directory to php_codesniffer/src/Standards/

Executing phpcs -i should now show CodingStandard installed eg.

The installed coding standards are CodingStandard, MySource, PEAR, PSR1, PSR2, Squiz and Zend.

You should now be able to set 'CodingStandard' as the phpcs standard in the plugin/editor/IDE of your choice.

Composer install for a single project

cd /Path/To/MyProject

composer require tuannda/php-coding-standard

Set the 'phpcs standard path' and 'phpcbf standard path' in your editor/plugin config to:

'/Path/To/MyProject/vendor/php-coding-standard/CodingStandard/ruleset.xml'

Command line use

Sniffing errors & warnings (reporting).

Single file...

phpcs /Path/To/MyFile.php --standard='/Path/To/php-coding-standard/CodingStandard/ruleset.xml'

or if globally installed.

phpcs /Path/To/MyFile.php --standard=CodingStandard

Directory (recursive).

phpcs /Path/To/MyProject --standard='/Path/To/php-coding-standard/CodingStandard/ruleset.xml'

or if globally installed.

phpcs /Path/To/MyProject --standard=CodingStandard

Fixing fixable errors.

Single file.

phpcbf /Path/To/MyFile.php --standard='/Path/To/php-coding-standard/CodingStandard/ruleset.xml'

or if globally installed.

phpcbf /Path/To/MyFile.php --standard=CodingStandard

Directory (recursive).

phpcbf /Path/To/MyProject --standard='/Path/To/php-coding-standard/CodingStandard/ruleset.xml'

or if globally installed.

phpcbf /Path/To/MyProject --standard=CodingStandard

Run on Gitlab-CI

stylelint:
stage: stylelint
tags:
- gitlab-runner
only:
- merge_requests
script:
- phpcs --config-set default_standard /Path/To/php-coding-standard/CodingStandard/
- echo CI_COMMIT_SHA=${CI_COMMIT_SHA}
- echo CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME=${CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME}
- git fetch origin ${CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME}
- FILES=$(git diff --name-only ${CI_COMMIT_SHA} origin/${CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME} | grep '\.php'$)
- if [ ! -z "$FILES" ]; then echo $FILES | xargs phpcs; fi
when: always 

Change crlf to lf on windows

git config --global core.autocrlf false
git config --global core.safecrlf false