May 5, 2018 Development, Symfony PHPCodeSniffer 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 (PHP Code Beautifier and Fixer) script to automatically correct coding standard violations. I will be sharing one of the essential elements on following Coding Standards when you are working wi. Tagged with php, codesniffer. In PHPStorm, go to your Settings screen (File-Settings or CTRL+ALT+S) and navigate to Languages and Frameworks - PHP - Code Sniffer. Next to the Local Configuration click the browse button and enter the path to phpcs in the PHP Code Sniffer (phpcs) path field. Hit Validate to make sure PHPStorm.
Use PHP Code Sniffer to detect violations to coding standards in your PHP files.
To use PHP Code Sniffer in PHPStorm, open the Settings and go to PHP -> Code Sniffer
In the field ‘PHP Code Sniffer (phpcs) path:’ fill in the path where the binary resides. Most of the times this is ‘/usr/bin/phpcs’. If it’s not, you can find it by going to the commandline and type ‘which phpcs‘:
Click on the button ‘validate‘ to have PHPStorm validate your phpcs binary. If everything is OK, you’ll see a green bar like in the image below.
Php_codesniffer Phpstorm
To have your PHP file checked in PHPStorm, right-click on the file in the explorer-view and choose the option ‘Inspect Code…’.
Php Codesniffer Phpstorm Ubuntu
In the window that follows, click on the button next to the selector of ‘Inspection profile’ with the selected option ‘Project Default’.
Be sure that the checkbox ‘PHP Code Sniffer Validation‘ is checked as it is in the image below.
Close that screen and click ‘Ok’ to have PHPStorm check your file with all the enabled options of the screen above.
On the bottom of the editor you’ll see the findings of the inspectation.