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PHP Formatter


This PHP formatter aims to provide you some bulk actions for you PHP projects to
ensure their consistency. None of them fixes PSR rules. If you want to fix PSR
rules, please check friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer.

Install

Install PHP Formatter in this way:

$ composer global require mmoreram/php-formatter=dev-master

If it is the first time you globally install a dependency then make sure
you include ~/.composer/vendor/bin in $PATH as shown here.

Always keep your PHP Formatter installation up to date:

$ composer global update mmoreram/php-formatter

.phar file

You can also use already last built .phar.

$ git clone git@github.com:mmoreram/php-formatter.git
$ cd php-formatter
$ php build/php-formatter.phar

You can copy the .phar file as a global script

$ cp build/php-formatter.phar /usr/local/bin/php-formatter

Compile

Finally you can also compile your own version of the package. ( You need set
phar.readonly = Off in your php.ini ). For the compilation of this package you
need the box-project/box2 library.

$ git clone git@github.com:mmoreram/php-formatter.git
$ cd php-formatter
$ composer update --no-dev
$ box build -v
$ build/php-formatter.phar

You can copy the .phar file as a global script

$ cp build/php-formatter.phar /usr/local/bin/php-formatter

Config

You can place a file named .formatter.yml in the root of your project. In
every command execution, this will be the priority of the definitions.
If an option is set in the command, this will be used. Otherwise, if is defined
in a found config file, this will be used. Otherwise, default value will be
used.
This is the config reference

use-sort:
    group:
        - _main
        - Mmoreram
    group-type: each
    sort-type: alph
    sort-direction: asc

strict: ~
header: |
    /*
     * This file is part of the php-formatter package
     *
     * Copyright (c) 2014 Marc Morera
     *
     * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
     * file that was distributed with this source code.
     *
     * Feel free to edit as you please, and have fun.
     *
     * @author Marc Morera <yuhu@mmoreram.com>
     */

you can also define where to search the .formatter.yml file using the
--config|-c option

$ php-formatter formatter:use:sort src/ --config="src/"

Commands

PHP Formatter is a set of commands useful for your PHP projects. They do not
consider any kind of Common Coding Standard, like PSR-0 or PSR-1, is more like
a useful way of working for developers and reviewers.

Console Tool

Usage:
  [options] command [arguments]

Options:
  --help           -h Display this help message.
  --quiet          -q Do not output any message.
  --verbose        -v|vv|vvv Increase the verbosity of messages
  --version        -V Display this application version.
  --ansi              Force ANSI output.
  --no-ansi           Disable ANSI output.
  --no-interaction -n Do not ask any interactive question.

Available commands:
  help                   Displays help for a command
  list                   Lists commands
formatter
  formatter:header:fix  Ensures that all PHP files has header defined in config file
  formatter:strict:fix  Ensures that all PHP files have strict mode defined in config file. Only valid for >=PHP7.0
  formatter:use:sort    Sort Use statements

Sort all Use Statements

You can sort your Use Statements in different ways. For this command you
must provide as an argument the path where to look for the PHP files you want to
process.

  • command: php-formatter formatter:use:sort
  • argument: path
  • option: –exclude [multiple]
  • option: –group [multiple]
  • option: –group-type=one|each
  • option: –sort-type=alph|length
  • option: –sort-direction=asc|desc
  • option: –dry-run [no value]

Group

You can sort your Use statements using as many groups as you want (–group).
It means that you can group lines with same root (Symfony) in a specific
order.
Common group is named _main and if is not specified, is placed in the
beginning. You can define where to place this group with the --group option

$ php-formatter formatter:use:sort src/ --group="Mmoreram" --group="_main" --group="Symfony"

This command will sort the code like this

use MmoreramMyClass;
use MmoreramMySecondClass;

use OneBundleOneClass;
use AnotherBundleAnotherClass;

use SymfonyOneClass;
use SymfonyAnotherClass;

As you can see, a blank line is placed between groups. If any group is defined,
one big group is created with all namespaces.
When using a .formatter.yml you can also specify subgroups by entering an array

use-sort:
    group:
        - [SymfonyComponentHttpKernel, Symfony]
        - _main

This will create a Symfony group placing all SymfonyComponentHttpKernel classes on top.
Finally, the --group-type defines if you want one use literal in every
namespace line

$ php-formatter formatter:use:sort src/ --group="Mmoreram" --group-type="each"

This command will sort the code like this

use AnotherBundleAnotherClass;
use OneBundleOneClass;
use SymfonyAnotherClass;
use SymfonyOneClass;

use MmoreramMyClass;
use MmoreramMySecondClass;

or if you want only one use for all groups.

$ php-formatter formatter:use:sort src/ --group="Mmoreram" --group-type="one"

This command will sort the code like this

use AnotherBundleAnotherClass,
    OneBundleOneClass,
    SymfonyAnotherClass,
    SymfonyOneClass;

use MmoreramMyClass,
    MmoreramMySecondClass;

Sort

There are two options of sorting. You can sort your namespaces alphabetically
(default value)

$ php-formatter formatter:use:sort src/ --sort-type="alph"

This command will sort the code like this

use AnotherBundleAnotherClass;
use MmoreramMyClass;
use MmoreramMySecondClass;
use OneBundleOneClass;
use SymfonyAnotherClass;
use SymfonyOneClass;

or by length (two namespaces with same length will be sorted alphabetically)

$ php-formatter formatter:use:sort src/ --sort-type="length"

This command will sort the code like this

use AnotherBundleAnotherClass;
use MmoreramMySecondClass;
use SymfonyAnotherClass;
use OneBundleOneClass;
use MmoreramMyClass;
use SymfonyOneClass;

You can also define the direction of the sorting. This can be ascending
(default value)

$ php-formatter formatter:use:sort src/ --sort-direction="asc"

This command will sort the code like this

use AnotherBundleAnotherClass;
use MmoreramMyClass;
use MmoreramMySecondClass;
use OneBundleOneClass;
use SymfonyAnotherClass;
use SymfonyOneClass;

or descending

$ php-formatter formatter:use:sort src/ --sort-direction="desc"

This command will sort the code like this

use SymfonyOneClass;
use SymfonyAnotherClass;
use OneBundleOneClass;
use MmoreramMySecondClass;
use MmoreramMyClass;
use AnotherBundleAnotherClass;

Fix all PHP headers

You can define your PHP header in your .formatter.yml file and this command
will check and fix that all PHP files have it properly.

  • command: php-formatter formatter:header:fix
  • argument: path
  • option: –exclude [multiple]
  • option: –dry-run [no value]

Fix all strict declarations

In your >=7.0 PHP applications you can use simple type declarations in your
methods. You can define your application as relaxed as you want by declaring the
strict_mode variable in your files. Each php file must be configured itself,
so in order to make sure all your files have the definition after the header if
exists and before the namespace declaration, you can use this command.

  • command: php-formatter formatter:strict:fix
  • argument: path
  • option: –exclude [multiple]
  • option: –dry-run [no value]

You can have three values here. If you define a boolean, then each file found
will have the declaration with the boolean given.

strict: true

Otherwise, if you define a ‘~’ value then your declaration lines will be
removed.

strict: '~'

Exclude folders/files

You can exclude folders and files by using the multi-option --exclude as many
times as you need. This option works the same way the Symfony component
Finder works, so to
make sure you properly understand the way this option works,…