PHPCS Insights

What is PHPCS?

PHPCS (PHP_CodeSniffer) is a set of two PHP scripts; phpcs and phpcbf. PHPCS is a tool to detect violations of a defined coding standard. PHPCBF is a tool to automatically correct coding standard violations. It's commonly used in PHP projects to ensure code quality and consistency across the codebase by enforcing coding standards like PSR-1, PSR-2, and others, or custom-defined standards.

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What other technologies are related to PHPCS?

PHPCS Competitor Technologies

PHPStan

PHPStan is a static analysis tool for PHP, overlapping in functionality with PHPCS's static analysis capabilities.

mentioned alongside PHPCS in 22% (133) of relevant job posts

PHPCS Complementary Technologies

Laravel 6

Laravel is a PHP framework. PHPCS helps maintain code style and quality in Laravel projects.

mentioned alongside PHPCS in 79% (111) of relevant job posts

PHP7.3

PHPCS analyzes PHP code, and PHP7.3 is a specific version of PHP. PHPCS helps ensure code quality for code written in PHP 7.3 (and other PHP versions).

mentioned alongside PHPCS in 26% (118) of relevant job posts

PHPUnit

PHPUnit is a testing framework for PHP. PHPCS can be used to enforce coding standards in PHPUnit test code.

mentioned alongside PHPCS in 3% (182) of relevant job posts