PHP and the most popular IDE for this programming language which I personally use is PHPStorm. Well today we will focus on one of the most popular web development language i.e. Once you have chosen the programming language you want to use, the next question appears: What IDE(Integrated Development Environment) Should I use to develop the program? Hope this little how-to helps to improve the quality of your code.The programming world is full of decisions.

Once that’s done, every time a PHP script is open it will be automatically analyzed by phpcs and it will show what the error is and how it can be fixed. Once added, in PhpStorm go to Preferences > Editor > Inspections, after that, in the middle panel go to PHP > Quality tools > PHP CodeSniffer validation, and finally in the third panel (the right one) select Custom from the Coding Standard list, and right after that click on the three-dotted button to load Symfony’s ruleset added as dependency of the project (it can be found in the vendor/escapestudios/symfony2-coding-standard/Symfony/ruleset.xml path) For example, in this link can be found the Symfony one, and in this repository, there are instructions of how it can be included as a development dependency of a project: $ composer require -dev escapestudios/symfony2-coding-standard:3.x-dev There are phpcs coding standards (a/k/a ruleset) for almost every PHP-based project out there. Go to Preferences > Languages & Frameworks > PHP > Quality toolsĪnd click on the three-dotted button in the new screen that pops up check the phpcs binary (the Validate button can be clicked to check it loads the expected phpcs binary) Integrate a Coding Standard Or added as a project development dependency: $ composer require 'squizlabs/php_codesniffer=*' -dev Integrate PHP_CodeSniffer with PhpStormįirst of all, load PHP_CodeSniffer into PhpStorm (the IDE usually loads the phpcs if it founds one). The preferred install method is using Composer it can be installed system-wide: $ composer global require 'squizlabs/php_codesniffer=*' This is when PHP_CodeSniffer ( phpcs for short) enters the picture to help analyze a PHP codebase. Because of this, it is a good idea to pre-define coding standards to create more readable and searchable code, and that’s what major PHP-based projects do (like WordPress and Symfony) Even harder for a team, when each Developer has a favorite coding standard. Developers try to follow coding standards, but let’s face it: it is hard.

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