1.4.0 - 2025-06-14

Added

• All sniffs: compatibility with the new PHP_CodeSniffer 4.x branch in anticipation of the PHP_CodeSniffer 4.0 release. #367
  PHPCSExtra should now be fully compatible with PHP_CodeSniffer 4.0. If you still find an issue, please report it.

Changed

Other

• Composer: The minimum PHP_CodeSniffer requirement has been updated to ^3.13.0 (was ^3.12.1). #361
• Composer: The minimum PHPCSUtils requirement has been updated to ^1.1.0 (was ^1.0.12). #361
• Various housekeeping.

Deprecated

Universal

• Universal.WhiteSpace.PrecisionAlignment: support for scanning JS/CSS files via this sniff is now deprecated. #367

Fixed

Universal

• Universal.Arrays.DuplicateArrayKey: false positives for numeric strings with leading/trailing underscores. Fixed via the update to PHPCSUtils 1.1.0. #363
• Universal.Arrays.DuplicateArrayKey: false negatives for fully qualified true/false/null arrays keys. Fixed via the update to PHPCSUtils 1.1.0. #363
• Universal.WhiteSpace.CommaSpacing: wrong errorcode for comma's in closure use statements after the update to PHPCSUtils 1.1.0. #362

1.3.1 - 2025-06-08

Changed

Other

• Composer: The minimum PHPCSUtils requirement has been updated to ^1.0.12 (was ^1.0.9). #346
• Various housekeeping.

Fixed

Universal

• Universal.UseStatements.DisallowMixedGroupUse: the fixer could get confused when the "base" name for the group name contained a leading backslash, leading to parse errors in the fixed code. #350

1.3.0 - 2025-04-21

Added

Universal

• 🔧 📚 New Universal.PHP.NoFQNTrueFalseNull sniff to forbid using true, false and null as fully qualified constants. Thanks @rodrigoprimo for reviewing. #327
• Universal.Operators.TypeSeparatorSpacing: support for checking the spacing around the parentheses used in PHP 8.2+ DNF types. #329

Changed

Universal

• The Universal.WhiteSpace.DisallowInlineTabs sniff will now also check for inline tabs in heredoc/nowdoc openers and between the yield and from keywords. #320

Other

• Composer: The minimum PHP_CodeSniffer requirement has been updated to ^3.12.1 (was ^3.8.0). #330
• Developer happiness: prevent creating a composer.lock file. Thanks @fredden! #307
• Various housekeeping, including improvements to the documentation and tests.

1.2.1 - 2023-12-08

Changed

Other

• Composer: The minimum PHP_CodeSniffer requirement has been updated to ^3.8.0 (was ^3.7.2). #298
• Composer: The minimum PHPCSUtils requirement has been updated to ^1.0.9 (was ^1.0.8). #298

Please ensure you run composer update phpcsstandards/phpcsextra --with-dependencies to benefit from this.

1.2.0 - 2023-12-02

Added

Universal

• 🔧 📚 New Universal.CodeAnalysis.NoDoubleNegative sniff to detect double negatives (!!) and advise to use a boolean cast instead. Thanks @diedexx for reviewing. #277
• 🔧 📚 New Universal.Operators.ConcatPosition sniff to enforce that the concatenation operator for multi-line concatenations is in a preferred position, either always at the start of the next line or always at the end of the previous line. #294
• 🔧 📊 📚 New Universal.PHP.LowercasePHPTag sniff to enforce that the "PHP" in a PHP open tag is lowercase. Thanks @fredden for reviewing. #276

Changed

NormalizedArrays

• NormalizedArrays.Arrays.CommaAfterLast: the sniff now has two extra error codes to distinguish between multi-line arrays with the last array item on the same line as the array closer vs the last array item being on a line before the array closer. Thanks @stronk7 for suggesting and patching this. #283, #284
  These new error codes allow for selectively excluding that specific situation from triggering the sniff.
  The new error codes are FoundMultiLineCloserSameLine (for multiLine="forbid") and MissingMultiLineCloserSameLine (for multiLine="enforce").
  The pre-existing FoundMultiLine and FoundSingleLine error codes continue to be used for multi-line arrays with the last array item on a different line than the array closer.

Other

• Various housekeeping.

1.1.2 - 2023-09-21

Changed

Other

• Various housekeeping.

Fixed

Universal

• Universal.CodeAnalysis.ConstructorDestructorReturn: the sniff will now correctly ignore methods mirroring the class name (PHP-4 style constructors) in namespaced code. #207, #272

1.1.1 - 2023-08-26

Changed

Modernize

• Modernize.FunctionCalls.Dirname: the sniff will now respect a potentially set php_version configuration option and only report on modernizations which are possible on the configured php_version. #261
  If the php_version is not set, the sniff will continue to report on all modernization options.

Other

• Various documentation improvements. Props in part to @szepeviktor.
• Improved defensive coding in select places.
• Various housekeeping.

1.1.0 - 2023-07-19

Added

Universal

• 🔧 📚 New Universal.CodeAnalysis.NoEchoSprintf sniff to detect use of the inefficient echo [v]sprintf(...); combi and recommends using [v]printf() instead. #242
• 📊 📚 New Universal.FunctionDeclarations.NoLongClosures sniff to detect "long" closures and recommend using a named function instead. #240
  The sniff offers the following properties to influence its behaviour: recommendedLines (defaults to 5), maxLines (defaults to 8), ignoreCommentLines (defaults to true) and ignoreEmptyLines (defaults to true).
• 🔧 📊 📚 New Universal.FunctionDeclarations.RequireFinalMethodsInTraits sniff to enforce non-private, non-abstract methods in traits to be declared as final. #243, #245
  There is a separate NonFinalMagicMethodFound error code for magic methods to allow those to be excluded from the check.
• 🔧 📊 📚 New Universal.UseStatements.DisallowMixedGroupUse sniff to disallow group use statements which import a combination of namespace/OO construct, functions and/or constants in one statement. #241, #246
  Note: the fixer will use a semi-standardized format for group use statements. If there are more specific requirements for the formatting of group use statements, the ruleset configurator should ensure that additional sniffs are included in the ruleset to enforce the required format.
• 🔧 📊 📚 New Universal.UseStatements.KeywordSpacing sniff to enforce the use of a single space after the use, function, const keywords and both before and after the as keyword in import use statements. #247
  The sniff has modular error codes to allow for disabling individual checks.
• 🔧 📚 New Universal.UseStatements.NoUselessAliases sniff to detect useless aliases (aliasing something to its original name) in import use statements. #244
  Note: as OO and function names in PHP are case-insensitive, aliasing to the same name, using a different case is also considered useless.
• 🔧 📊 📚 New Universal.WhiteSpace.CommaSpacing sniff to enforce that there is no space before a comma and exactly one space, or a new line, after a comma. #254
  Additionally, the sniff also enforces that the comma should follow the code and not be placed after a trailing comment.
  The sniff has modular error codes to allow for disabling individual checks and checks in certain contexts.
  The sniff will respect a potentially set php_version configuration option when deciding how to handle the spacing after a heredoc/nowdoc closer.

Changed

Universal

• Minor performance improvements for the Universal.Arrays.DuplicateArrayKey and the Universal.CodeAnalysis.ConstructorDestructorReturn sniffs. #251, #252

Other

• Composer: The minimum PHPCSUtils requirement has been updated to ^1.0.8 (was ^1.0.6). #249, #254
• Various housekeeping.

1.0.4 - 2023-06-18

Changed

Other

• Composer: The minimum PHPCSUtils requirement has been updated to ^1.0.6 (was ^1.0.0). #237
• Various housekeeping.

Fixed

Universal

• Universal.Constants.LowercaseClassResolutionKeyword: prevent false positives for function calls to methods called class. #226

1.0.3 - 2023-03-28

Changed

Universal

• Universal.WhiteSpace.DisallowInlineTabs: significant performance improvement. #216, #217

Other

• Various housekeeping.

Fixed

Modernize

• Modernize.FunctionCalls.Dirname: prevent false positives for attribute classes called dirname. #211, #213