Provides sniffs for PHP_CodeSniffer 3.x to check CodeIgniter3 coding standard.
CI4 can use CodeIgniter4 standard to check CodeIgniter4 coding standard
PHP_CodeSniffer is a set of two PHP scripts; the main phpcs script that tokenizes PHP, JavaScript and CSS files to detect violations of a defined coding standard, and a second phpcbf script to automatically correct coding standard violations.
PHP_CodeSniffer is an essential development tool that ensures your code remains clean and consistent.
By default sniffs for a few coding convetions are provided like PEAR, Zend, PHPCS and Squiz. CodeIgniter-for-PHP_CodeSniffer is aimed at adding support for CodeIgniter coding convention.
CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications.
CodeIgniter is developed by EllisLab. The company follows some specific coding rules for their developments and for CodeIgniter especially.
Based on PHP_CodeSniffer CodeIgniter-for-PHP_CodeSniffer helps to validate most of the rules in CodeIgniter coding standard.
git clone https://github.com/ganl/CodeIgniter-for-PHP_CodeSniffer.git
configure PHP_CodeSniffer to use CodeIgniter-for-PHP_CodeSniffer.
phpcs --config-set installed_paths /path/to/CodeIgniter-for-PHP_CodeSniffer/CodeIgniter
Check that it is installed type phpcs -i you should see a list of installed standards.
Then you can go to you project folder and run phpcs --standard=CodeIgniter my-file-or-my-directory.php.
