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rlweb/phpcs-for-legacy
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Bring old codebases to new standards

v1.2(7y ago)017MITPHPPHP >7

Since Jul 27Pushed 7y ago1 watchersCompare

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PHPCS for Legacy codebases
==========================

[](#phpcs-for-legacy-codebases)

Can't get a monolitic code base up to scratch but would like incremental progress. PHPCS for legacy allows new standards to be implemented incrementally, by only enforcing them on new / edited code via checking the `git diff` output.

Install
-------

[](#install)

With composer simply `composer require -dev rlweb/phpcs-for-legacy`.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

By running you initate the binary `vendor/bin/phpcslegacy run`

How it works
------------

[](#how-it-works)

- Firstly gets a output of `git diff head`
- Transforms the patch output into a useful array of `[filePath => [1,2,3,...]` to changed lines. For each changed line, we include the previous and the next line.
- Then it will run the PHPCS command against these files
- And then create a diff of the issues on the lines.

And output these only!

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity67

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~1 days

Total

6

Last Release

2841d ago

Major Versions

v0.0.1 → v1.02018-07-27

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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