How to ignore certain coding standard errors in PHP CodeSniffer
- by Tom
We have a PHP 5 web application and we're currently evaluating PHP CodeSniffer in order to decide whether forcing code standards improves code quality without causing too much of a headache. If it seems good we will add a SVN pre-commit hook to ensure all new files committed on the dev branch are free from coding standard smells.
Is there a way to configure PHP codeSniffer to ignore a particular type of error? or get it to treat a certain error as a warning instead?
Here an example to demonstrate the issue:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
<div>
<?php
echo getTabContent('Programming', 1, $numX, $numY);
if (isset($msg)) {
echo $msg;
}
?>
</div>
</body>
</html>
And this is the output of PHP_CodeSniffer:
> phpcs test.php
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FOUND 2 ERROR(S) AND 1 WARNING(S) AFFECTING 3 LINE(S)
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1 | WARNING | Line exceeds 85 characters; contains 121 characters
9 | ERROR | Missing file doc comment
11 | ERROR | Line indented incorrectly; expected 0 spaces, found 4
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I have a issue with the "Line indented incorrectly" error. I guess it happens because I am mixing the PHP indentation with the HTML indentation. But this makes it more readable doesn't it? (taking into account that I don't have the resouces to move to a MVC framework right now). So I'd like to ignore it please.
