Code Atlantic Coding Standards

Installation

Standards can be installed with Composer dependency manager:

composer require code-atlantic/coding-standards --dev

Usage

Basic usage

When the package is installed via Composer you can check your files with the coding standards via:

vendor/bin/phpcs --standard="CodeAtlantic" <path>

Where <path> is at least one file or directory to check, ex ..

Configuration File

To not have to pass all the arguments to the command line, and also make your own project customizations create a phpcs.xml.dist file that contains something like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ruleset name="MyProjectCodingStandard">
    <description>My Project coding standard.</description>

    <file>.</file>

    <!-- Only check .php files -->
    <arg name="extensions" value="php" />

    <!-- Set required text domain -->
    <config name="text_domain" value="my-project" />

    <!-- PHP 7.0 and higher. -->
    <config name="testVersion" value="7.0-" />

    <!-- Rules -->
    <rule ref="CodeAtlantic" />
</ruleset>