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PHP

Posted by Sander de Wijs
Sander de Wijs
Courses Plus Student 22,267 Points

Install PHP codesniffer on windows

When following along with Phil Sturgeon I ran into an issue installing PHP codesniffer on my Windows 7 machine.

When I want to run composer in my testproject, I get the following error:

c:\wamp\www\groupdeal>php ./vendor/bin/phpcs modals --standard=PSR2
SRC_DIR="`pwd`"
cd "`dirname "$0"`"
cd "../squizlabs/php_codesniffer/scripts"
BIN_TARGET="`pwd`/phpcs"
cd "$SRC_DIR"
"$BIN_TARGET" "$@"

The steps I have taken before this:

  • Add PHP to the Windows Path so I can use PHP with the command line.

  • Install composer via the Windows installer. (This required editing the PHP.ini file to activate open_ssl)

  • Install PHP sniffer using composer in my project folder.

  • The code I want to sniff is in the modals folder

Sander de Wijs
Sander de Wijs
Courses Plus Student 22,267 Points

I found a workaround by installing the PHPcs package for sublime text. This automaticaly checks for code standards while typing and on file save.

First I installed PEAR in my PHP folder. After that I installed PHP_codesniffer using PEAR.

Now I can use codesniffer directly in all my PHP projects with Sublime Text.