PHP_CodeSniffer is a PHP5 script that tokenises and "sniffs" PHP code to detect violations of a defined set of coding standards. It is an essential development tool that ensures that your code remains clean and consistent. It can even help prevent some common semantic errors made by developers.

Release date: 2007-05-15 03:57 UTC

Release state: beta

Changelog:

- The number of errors and warnings found is now shown for each file while checking the file if verbosity is enabled

- Now using PHP_EOL instead of hard-coded \n so output looks good on Windows (feature request #10761)

- Thanks to carsten Wiedmann for the patch.

- phpcs now exits with status 0 (no errors) or 1 (errors found) (feature request #10348)

- Added new -l command line argument to stop recursion into directories (feature request #10979)

- Fixed variable name error causing incorrect error message in Squiz ValidVariableNameSniff

- Fixed bug #10757 : Error in ControlSignatureSniff

- Fixed bugs #10751, #10777 : Sniffer class paths handled incorrectly in Windows

- Thanks to Carsten Wiedmann for the patch.

- Fixed bug #10961 : Error "Last parameter comment requires a blank newline after it" thrown

- Fixed bug #10983 : phpcs outputs notices when checking invalid PHP

- Fixed bug #10980 : Incorrect warnings for equals sign

Dependencies:

• PHP Version: PHP 5.1.0 or newer


• PEAR Package: PEAR Installer 1.4.0b1 or newer