Coding Standard Laravel Package

Fixes

• Disable errors with false positives in Squiz.Arrays.ArrayDeclaration (#64)
• Fix Slevomat Coding Standard dependency to support minor versions (#63, thanks to @krns)

Maintenance

• Slevomat Coding Standard 6.x (#59 thanks to @kukulich)

Improvements

• Check spacing before assignments (#58)

Maintenance

• PHP_CodeSniffer 3.5 (#57 thanks to @janlanger)

• Slevomat Coding Standard 5.x (#55)

Fixes

• Exclude function spacing that has separate code for last line (#53)

Maintenance

• PHP_CodeSniffer 3.4 (#54)

• Support for PHP 7.3 (#51)

• Additional sniffs for checking current standard (#50)
  • check that [@var](https://github.com/var) is not used for constants
  • check that PHPDoc containing only {[@inheritDoc](https://github.com/inheritDoc)} is not used

• Check PHPDoc and typehints declaration (#45)
  • check for missing property types in PHPDoc [@var](https://github.com/var)
  • check for missing typehints in case they can be declared
  • check for missing [@return](https://github.com/return) and/or native return typehint in case the method body contains return with a value
  • check for useless doc comments
  • forces to specify what's in traversable types like array, iterable and \Traversable

• Exclude errors reporting false positives for multi line nested array access (#44)

• Additional sniffs for checking current standard (#43)
  • check more language construct spacing cases
  • check that PHP types used for type hints, return types, and type casting are lowercase
  • check whitespace inside parenthesis that do not belong to a function call/declaration or control structure

• PHP_CodeSniffer 3.3 (#42)

• Additional sniffs for checking current standard (#41)
  • check more namespace declaration rules
  • check not using empty()
  • check using short PHP lists

• Remove Squiz.WhiteSpace.ControlStructureSpacing since there should be no error codes left for checking (#38)

New features

• Additional sniffs for checking current standard (#34)
  • check that there are parentheses when calling constructor even when no parameters are given
  • check that single line content PHPDocs are actually written in single line
  • check that language expressions are not written with parentheses if possible
  • check that there are no empty comments

Rule changes

• Use float instead of double or real (#35)
• Forbid (binary) and (unset) typecasts (#36)
• Disallow empty() since it is magic (#37)

Maintenance

• Remove support for PHP 7.0, since it is no longer supported and adopt PHP 7.1 (#33)

• support for PHP 7.2 (#32)

• fix PHPCS BC break: DetectedCATCH -> DetectedCatch (#31)

• PHP_CodeSniffer 3.2 (#29)
• Arrays indentation sniff Generic.Arrays.ArrayIndent (#30)

• Custom Exception last argument is considered chainable (#27)
• Error last argument is considered chainable (#28)

• Remove DisallowAlternativePHPTags as they have been removed from PHP 7.0 onwards (#25)
• PHP_CodeSniffer 3.1 (#26)
• New sniff Consistence.Exceptions.ExceptionDeclaration checks exception rules from the standard (#19 thanks to @mhujer)
  • Exception name must end with Exception
  • Exception must be chainable
  • Exception must be placed in exception (configurable) directory

• Slevomat Coding Standard 4.x (#24)

• PHP_CodeSniffer 3.0 (#21)

• PHP_CodeSniffer 2.9 (#20)

New features

• PHP 7.0 and 7.1 coding standard rules (#9)
• Slevomat sniffs for checking the standard (#11)
  • This includes primarily sniffs for checking namespaces, uses, scalar type hints and other PHP 7 features.

Rule changes

• Trait uses must be FQN (#12)
• Remove rules for creating exception interface hierarchies (#13)
• Remove rule for separating namespace uses by top-level namespace (#14)
• Require bool and int in PHPDoc to be consistent with PHP's scalar types (#15)
• Rules for writing inline [@var](https://github.com/var) (#16)

See respective PRs for details and reasons.

Maintenance

• Remove support for PHP 5.6, since it is no longer supported and adopt PHP 7.0 (#10)

• PHP_CodeSniffer 2.8

• PHP_CodeSniffer 2.7
• enable Generic.PHP.DisallowAlternativePHPTags sniff
• enable ignoreNewlines for Squiz.WhiteSpace.ObjectOperatorSpacing to support multiline calls
• Squiz.Functions.MultiLineFunctionDeclaration has been reworked to work with return type hints

• exclude Squiz.Functions.MultiLineFunctionDeclaration.SpaceAfterBracket because it conflicts with return type hints in anonymous functions (function foo(): int {})

• PHP_CodeSniffer 2.6

• Fixing compatibility issue raised in PHP_CodeSniffer 2.5.1 where false positives are reported for code, which is inteded to run on PHP 5, but is checked under PHP 7 (caused by phpcs#858).
  • If you use this library in a PHP 7 only project, you may want to re-enable Squiz.Commenting.FunctionComment.TypeHintMissing in your ruleset.
• Re-enabled more checks for multi-line calls, because comments in them are now tolerated phpcs#794.

• remove support for PHP 5.5, since it is no longer supported

• PHP_CodeSniffer 2.5 with better PHP 7 support
• better handling of multiline function calls and declarations