README

This code works with phpcs and checks code against the coding standards used in CakePHP.

⚠️ The master branch contains codesniffer rules that are based on the PSR2 standard. If you want to check against the historical CakePHP coding standard use any of the 1.x releases.

Installation

You should install this codesniffer with composer:

composer require --dev "cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer=2.*"
vendor/bin/phpcs --config-set installed_paths /path/to/your/app/vendor/cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer

The second command lets phpcs know where to find your new sniffs. Ensure that you do not overwrite any existing installed_paths value.

Usage

Depending on how you installed the code sniffer changes how you run it. If you have installed phpcs, and this package with PEAR, you can do the following:

vendor/bin/phpcs --standard=CakePHP /path/to/code

⚠️ Warning when these sniffs are installed with composer, ensure that you have configured the CodeSniffer installed_paths setting.

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute to the Code Sniffer, you can fork the project add features and send pull requests.

Make sure to clone the repository to something like cakephp_codesniffer (instead of the default cakephp-codesniffer) because otherwise phpunit will fail to run the tests.

Releasing CakePHP Code Sniffer

• Create a signed tag
• Write the changelog in the tag commit