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[Testing & Quality](/categories/testing) 4. / 5. manoj-malviya/php\_codesniffer ActiveLibrary[Testing & Quality](/categories/testing) manoj-malviya/php\_codesniffer ============================== PHP\_CodeSniffer tokenizes PHP, JavaScript and CSS files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards. 2.4.0(10y ago)0202BSD-3-ClausePHPPHP >=5.1.2 Since Nov 9Pushed 9y ago1 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/manoj-malviya/PHP_CodeSniffer)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/manoj-malviya/php_codesniffer)[ Docs](http://www.squizlabs.com/php-codesniffer)[ RSS](/packages/manoj-malviya-php-codesniffer/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 3w ago READMEChangelogDependenciesVersions (36)Used By (0) First, we need a development dependency specified to install phpcs. It looks something like this: ``` { "require-dev": { "manoj-malviya/php_codesniffer": "^2.4" } } ``` Install Scripts --------------- [](#install-scripts) Composer has a handy schema entry called scripts. It supports a script hook post-install-cmd. We will use this to install a git pre-commit hook. Adding to our example above: ``` { "require-dev": [ "manoj-malviya/php_codesniffer": "^2.4" ], "scripts": { "post-install-cmd": [ "bash contrib/setup.sh" ] } } ``` This will run a bash script called setup.sh when the command composer install is run. Setup the Git Pre-commit Hook ----------------------------- [](#setup-the-git-pre-commit-hook) In our setup.sh, we will need to copy a pre-commit script into the .git/hooks directory: ``` #!/bin/sh cp contrib/pre-commit .git/hooks/pre-commit chmod +x .git/hooks/pre-commit ``` This will copy our pre-commit script from the contrib directory to the hooks section of the special git directory and make it executable. Create the Pre-commit Hook -------------------------- [](#create-the-pre-commit-hook) Whenever a contributing developer attempts to commit their code, it will run our pre-commit script. Now all we need to do is run the code sniffer rules on relavent files specific to this commit: ``` #!/bin/sh PROJECT=`php -r "echo dirname(dirname(dirname(realpath('$0'))));"` STAGED_FILES_CMD=`git diff --cached --name-only --diff-filter=ACMR HEAD | grep \\\\.php` # Determine if a file list is passed if [ "$#" -eq 1 ] then oIFS=$IFS IFS=' ' SFILES="$1" IFS=$oIFS fi SFILES=${SFILES:-$STAGED_FILES_CMD} echo "Checking PHP Lint..." for FILE in $SFILES do php -l -d display_errors=0 $PROJECT/$FILE if [ $? != 0 ] then echo "Fix the error before commit." exit 1 fi FILES="$FILES $PROJECT/$FILE" done if [ "$FILES" != "" ] then echo "Running Code Sniffer..." ./vendor/bin/phpcs --standard=PSR1 --encoding=utf-8 -n -p $FILES if [ $? != 0 ] then echo "Fix the error before commit." exit 1 fi fi exit $? ``` This script will get the staged files of the commit, run a php lint check (always nice), and apply the code sniffer rules to the staged files. If there is a code standards violation, the phpcs process will return a non-zero exit status which will tell git to abort the commit. Bringing it all together ------------------------ [](#bringing-it-all-together) With all of these things in place, the workflow is as follows: Developer runs composer install. PHP Code Sniffer is installed via a dev dependency. The post-install command automatically copies the pre-commit hook into the developer’s local git hooks. When the developer commits code, the pre-commit hook fires and checks the staged files for coding standards violations and lint checks. This is a relatively simple setup that can save pull request code reviews a significant amount of time preventing back-and-forth on simple things such as mixed tabs/spaces, bracket placement, etc. ### Health Score 32 — LowBetter than 69% of packages Maintenance20 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity11 Limited adoption so far Community20 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity70 Established project with proven stability Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 94.6% of commits — single point of failure How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window. **Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores. **Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. 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