Castor Recipes (Composer Plugin)

Composer plugin that installs ready-to-use recipes for Castor for various PHP frameworks/platforms. During installation it asks which recipe to use and:

• creates a castor.php file in your project root with a require to the selected recipe if it does not exist;
• if castor.php already exists, it shows the instructions to add the require manually.

Requirements

• PHP >= 8.2
• Composer 2
• jolicode/castor (Below for quick installation)
• Optional Docker (to run tasks in containers)

Castor installation

 curl "https://castor.jolicode.com/install" | bash -s -- --static

Castor enable autocompletion

To show how to enable autocompletion, run:

castor completion --help

Supported Platforms/Frameworks

• Symfony (recipes/symfony.php)
• Laravel (recipes/laravel.php)
• Shopware6 (recipes/shopware6.php)
• OroCommerce (recipes/orocommerce.php)
• Magento 2 (recipes/magento2.php)
• WordPress (recipes/wordpress.php)

Additional Recipes

• Spell Checking (recipes/_aspell.php) - Comprehensive spell checking for text files and PHP code
• Quality Checks (recipes/quality-check.php) - Code quality tools integration
• Docker (recipes/docker.php) - Docker container management tasks
• MySQL/PostgreSQL (recipes/mysql.php, recipes/postgresql.php) - Database management tasks

Installation

composer require --dev algoritma/castor-recipes

During installation you will be asked to choose a recipe. If castor.php does not exist, it will be created automatically with the correct require, for example:

<?php
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/algoritma/castor-recipes/recipes/symfony.php';

If the file already exists, instructions will be printed to add the require line manually.

Usage

List available tasks:

castor list

Running in Docker (optional)

Recipes can run locally or inside a Docker container depending on environment variables.

• Set CASTOR_DOCKER=1 to use Docker.
• Docker Compose service to use: DOCKER_SERVICE (default: workspace).
• Docker Compose database service to use: DOCKER_DB_SERVICE (default: database).
• Compose file: DOCKER_COMPOSE_FILE (default: docker-compose.yml).

Examples:

# Local execution (default)
castor sf_test

# Using Docker Compose (service "php")
CASTOR_DOCKER=1 DOCKER_SERVICE=php castor sf_test

# Using an alternative compose file
CASTOR_DOCKER=1 DOCKER_COMPOSE_FILE=docker/docker-compose.yml castor laravel_test

Adding multiple recipes

You can include multiple recipes at the same time by editing castor.php and adding more require lines:

<?php
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/algoritma/castor-recipes/recipes/symfony.php';
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/algoritma/castor-recipes/recipes/laravel.php';

Notes

• Specific commands (e.g., bin/console, php artisan, bin/magento, wp) must be available in the project/in the container.
• The recipes are basic examples: adapt the tasks to your project's needs.

Spell Checking with Aspell

The _aspell.php recipe provides comprehensive spell checking for your project using GNU Aspell.

Requirements

• GNU Aspell must be installed on your system:

  # Ubuntu/Debian
  sudo apt-get install aspell aspell-en aspell-it
  
  # macOS
  brew install aspell

Features

• Text file checking: Markdown, text files, YAML/JSON translation files
• PHP code checking: Extracts and verifies identifiers (variables, classes, methods, comments) using PHP tokenizer
• Multi-language support: English, Italian, French, German, Spanish
• Automatic language detection: From filename patterns (e.g., messages.it_IT.yaml)
• Personal dictionary: Project-specific word lists (.aspell.en.pws)
• Global dictionary: Shared technical terms across all projects
• Smart PHP processing: Ignores built-in functions, splits camelCase/snake_case identifiers

Available Tasks

# Check text files (markdown, yaml, json translations)
castor aspell:check

# Check PHP code identifiers
castor aspell:check-code

# Check all files (text + code)
castor aspell:check-all

# Check specific files
castor aspell:check-all --files="README.md src/Plugin.php"

# Check with different language
castor aspell:check --lang=it

# Add all errors to personal dictionary automatically
castor aspell:check-all --ignore-all

# Manage personal dictionary
castor aspell:init                    # Initialize personal dictionary
castor aspell:add-word myword         # Add a word to dictionary
castor aspell:show-dict               # Show all words in dictionary

Personal Dictionary

The spell checker uses a project-specific personal dictionary stored in .aspell.en.pws at your project root. This file:

• Should be committed to version control
• Contains project-specific terminology, brand names, technical terms
• Is automatically loaded during spell checks
• Can be managed via aspell:add-word and aspell:show-dict tasks

Integration with Git Hooks

Add spell checking to your pre-commit hook:

#!/bin/bash
# .git/hooks/pre-commit

# Get list of staged files
STAGED_FILES=$(git diff --cached --name-only --diff-filter=ACM)

# Run spell check on staged files
castor aspell:check-all --files="$STAGED_FILES" || exit 1

Quality Checks Recipe

The quality-check.php recipe provides comprehensive code quality tools and testing capabilities.

Available Tasks

# Code formatting and analysis
castor qa:php-cs-fixer              # Run PHP CS Fixer
castor qa:rector                    # Run Rector for code refactoring
castor qa:phpstan                   # Run PHPStan static analysis

# Testing
castor qa:tests                     # Run PHPUnit tests
castor qa:test_watch                # 🔥 Run tests in interactive watch mode

# Spell checking
castor qa:aspell-check              # Check text files for typos
castor qa:aspell-check-code         # Check PHP code for typos
castor qa:aspell-check-all          # Check all files for typos

# Pre-commit checks
castor qa:pre-commit                # Run all quality checks (Rector, CS Fixer, PHPStan, Aspell, tests)

⭐ Interactive Test Watch Mode

The qa:test_watch task provides an interactive watch mode that automatically reruns your tests when files change:

castor qa:test_watch

Features:

• Interactive menu with options:
  • Run all tests
  • Filter by test name
  • Filter by file name
  • Pass custom arguments to PHPUnit
• Auto-rerun tests when source or test files change
• Ctrl+C returns to the menu (doesn't exit)
• Watches all PSR-4 autoload paths
• Smart debouncing to avoid multiple runs

Requirements:

• PHP pcntl extension for signal handling

Typo Checking with Aspell

The quality-check recipe integrates spell checking for catching typos in your code:

# Check specific files
castor qa:aspell-check-all --files="README.md src/MyClass.php"

# Automatically add all errors to dictionary
castor qa:aspell-check-all --ignore-all

# Check with specific language
castor qa:aspell-check --lang=it

See the Spell Checking with Aspell section for complete documentation.

Development

# Install dependencies
composer install

# Run tests
composer test

# Run code quality tools
composer quality

Testing

Run the test suite and, optionally, generate a coverage report:

# Run tests
composer test

# Run tests with coverage report (requires Xdebug or PCOV)
vendor/bin/phpunit --coverage-html coverage

# View the coverage report (macOS)
open coverage/index.html

Continuous Integration

Planned: GitHub Actions workflows to test on multiple PHP versions (8.1–8.5) with the following steps:

• PHPUnit tests
• PHPStan static analysis
• PHP CS Fixer code style checks
• Optional code coverage report

Note: Workflows are not yet included in this repository. Contributions are welcome.

License

GPL-3.0 License