Finch

Finch is code sniffing tool, with specific rules set you can check your code style and recieve report output. Finch emerged from need of one company to keep code style clean and same on every project, we didn't wanted to make bigger differences across projects.

Rules

The following rules are supported in this version, while we actively work on this project, many more will be supported in future. For example of some basic setup you can take a look at rules file.

• lineLength

  Value can be from 0 to n, it checks for maximum chars for each line.

• useBubbleSort

  Check for use statements sort from shorter to longer regarding string length.

• forceNamespace

  Forcing namespaces in files. No global scope is allowed.

• elseif

  Forbid usage of else if statements, if you use else if maybe its time for switch.

• else

  Forbids usage of else statement

• forbidInlineBracket

  Forbids usage of inline brackets, brackets for statements and declarations need to be in new line

• goto

  Forbid usage of goto statement, are you some kind of dinosaur? Be carefull for raptor

• eval

  Forbid usage of built in eval function.

• varByRef

  Passing variables by ref is forbiden

• returnByRef

  Returning references is forbiden

• globals

  Forbids usage of globals.

• indentSpace

  Force usage of spaces, using tabs is forbiden

• phpFileClosingTag

  Forbid usage of php file closing tag (?>) at the end of php files

• classStudlyCaps

  Class names must follow StudlyCaps naming rules

• methodsCamelCase

  Methods must follow camelCase naming rules

• vardump

  Detects usage of var_dump function