Php Compatibility Laravel Package

IMPORTANT: This release contains breaking changes. Please read and follow the Upgrade guide in the wiki carefully before upgrading!

This release includes all improvements and bugfixes from PHPCompatibility 10.0.0-alpha1.

See all related issues and PRs in the 10.0.0-alpha2 milestone.

Added

• PHP cross-version:
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Keywords.ForbiddenClassAlias sniff. #1952
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.LanguageConstructs.RemovedLanguageConstructs sniff. #1948 This sniff in its initial version will detect the PHP 8.5 deprecation of the backtick operator.
• PHP 8.3:
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewClassAliasInternalClass sniff. #1951
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Syntax.NewDynamicClassConstantFetch sniff. #1974
• PHP 8.5:
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewStaticAvizProperties sniff. #1950
• :star: PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewClasses sniff: recognize the new DateTime and SQLite extension related error and exception classes as introduced in PHP 8.3. #1936, #1937
• :star: PHPCompatibility.Constants.NewConstants sniff: recognize various constants from the Mhash extension. #1938
• :star: PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.ChangedIntToBoolParamType sniff: detect the Zlib $use_include_path parameter type change as per PHP 8.5. #1949
• :star: The "list based" sniffs, like NewFunctions, RemovedIniDirectives, ForbiddenNames etc, have received updates to account for new/deprecated/removed PHP classes, constants, functions, function parameters, ini directives, reserved namespaces and type casts as per PHP 8.5.
• :books: Documentation for the following sniffs:
  • PHPCompatibility.Syntax.NewShortArray #1997

Changed

• :twisted_rightwards_arrows: PHPCompatibility.TypeCasts.RemovedTypeCasts has new error codes. #1941
  • The t_unset_castDeprecatedRemoved has been changed to unsetDeprecatedRemoved.
  • The t_double_castDeprecatedRemoved has been changed to realDeprecatedRemoved.
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.Keywords.ForbiddenNames will now also detect incompatible use of the "other" reserved keywords parent and self. #1940
• :wrench: :umbrella: Various housekeeping, including general maintenance, improvements to speed up the sniffs, improvements to CI, the tests and documentation.

Credits

Thanks go out to @afilina and @okkun-sh for their contributions to this version. :clap:

IMPORTANT: This release contains breaking changes. Please read and follow the Upgrade guide in the wiki carefully before upgrading!

If you use any of the framework/CMS/polyfill specific rulesets, please use the corresponding release for that package.

Highlighted Changes

• Policy change: As of this release, PHPCompatibility will no longer support a wide range of PHP_CodeSniffer versions. The minimum supported PHP_CodeSniffer version will be raised anytime syntax support for a new PHP feature is added to PHP_CodeSniffer and this syntax support is needed for the PHPCompatibility sniffs.
• Policy change: As of this release, the only supported manner of installation of PHPCompatibility will be via Composer. Installation using git clones or with the PHP_CodeSniffer PHAR files is still possible, but no support will be provided for this.
• New runtime dependencies:
  • The Composer plugin to register the standard with PHP_CodeSniffer.
  • PHPCSUtils, a library of utility function for PHP_CodeSniffer.
• All PHPCompatibility sniffs are now final classes.
  • This prevents issues with sniff autoloading.
• All sniffs are now compatible with PHP_CodeSniffer 3.x as well as 4.0.

Changelog for version 10.0.0-alpha1

See all related issues and PRs in the 10.0.0-alpha1 milestone and in the CHANGELOG file.

Added

• New dependencies:
  • The Composer PHPCS installer plugin (DealerDirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer).
  • PHPCSUtils at "^1.1.2". #979, #1362, #1714, #1806, #1900
• PHP cross-version:
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Classes.RemovedClasses sniff. #1062, #1705
• PHP 5.3:
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Namespaces.ReservedNames sniff. #1026. Fixes #1025, #1592, #1729
• PHP 5.4:
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.ChangedObStartEraseFlags sniff. #1027, #1371, #1876
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewNumberFormatMultibyteSeparators sniff. #1139, #1380, #1679, #1680
• PHP 7.0:
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Numbers.RemovedHexadecimalNumericStrings sniff. #1004, #1366. Fixes #1345
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewAssertCustomException sniff. #1029. Partially fixes #908
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Syntax.NewNestedStaticAccess sniff. #963, #1262. Fixes #946
• PHP 7.2:
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.ForbiddenSessionModuleNameUser sniff. #1138, #1373
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedAssertStringAssertion sniff. #1028, #1282. Partially fixes #908
• PHP 7.4:
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Numbers.NewNumericLiteralSeparator sniff. #984
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedProprietaryCSVEscaping sniff. #1787
• PHP 8.0:
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Attributes.NewAttributes sniff. #1279, #1480, #1730, #1926
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Classes.ForbiddenExtendingFinalPHPClass sniff. #1486, #1739
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewConstructorPropertyPromotion sniff. #1417
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ControlStructures.NewNonCapturingCatch sniff. #1151
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.ForbiddenFinalPrivateMethods sniff. #1201
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.NewTrailingComma sniff. #1164, #1190
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.RemovedCallingDestructAfterConstructorExit sniff. #1200, #1227, #1283
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.RemovedOptionalBeforeRequiredParam sniff. #1165, #1206, #1692, #1699, #1886
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.NewNamedParameters sniff. #1423, #1806, #1807
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.ChangedIntToBoolParamType sniff. #1232, #1370
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.ForbiddenGetClassNoArgsOutsideOO sniff. #1602
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedGetDefinedFunctionsExcludeDisabledFalse sniff. #1150, #1162, #1386, #1880
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedSplAutoloadRegisterThrowFalse sniff. #1181, #1391, #1882
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Syntax.InterpolatedStringDereferencing sniff. #1242
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Syntax.NewMagicConstantDereferencing sniff. #1233
• PHP 8.1:
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewFinalConstants sniff. #1317, #1496, #1629
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewReadonlyProperties sniff. #1426
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.RemovedReturnByReferenceFromVoid sniff. #1316, #1560
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.InitialValue.NewNewInDefine sniff. #1465
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.InitialValue.NewNewInInitializers sniff. #1464
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Interfaces.RemovedSerializable sniff. #1330
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Numbers.NewExplicitOctalNotation sniff. #1420
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewArrayMergeRecursiveWithGlobalsVar sniff. #1488
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewHTMLEntitiesFlagsDefault sniff. #1419
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedMbCheckEncodingNoArgs sniff. #1315
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedVersionCompareOperators sniff. #1418
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Syntax.NewFirstClassCallables sniff. #1425, #1807
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Variables.RemovedIndirectModificationOfGlobals sniff. #1487
• PHP 8.2:
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewReadonlyClasses sniff. #1453, #1686
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Constants.NewConstantsInTraits sniff. #1443
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedGetClassNoArgss sniff. #1614
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedLdapConnectSignatures sniff. #1620, #1671, #1881
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedMbStrimWidthNegativeWidth sniff. #1615
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.TextStrings.RemovedDollarBraceStringEmbeds sniff. #1424
• PHP 8.3:
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewTypedConstants sniff. #1808
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Generators.NewYieldFromComment sniff. #1792, #1812
• PHP 8.4:
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Classes.ForbiddenClassNameUnderscore sniff. #1742
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewAbstractProperties sniff. #1901
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewFinalProperties sniff. #1815
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.RemovedImplicitlyNullableParam sniff. #1689, #1694, #1897
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Interfaces.NewPropertiesInInterfaces sniff. #1814
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewExitAsFunctionCall sniff. #1807, #1923
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedDbaKeySplitNullFalse sniff. #1745, #1879
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedTriggerErrorLevel sniff. #1741
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedXmlSetHandlerCallbackUnset sniff. #1744
  • :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Syntax.NewClassMemberAccessWithoutParentheses sniff. #1903
• :star: PHPCompatibility.Constants.NewMagicClassConstant: detection of $obj::class as allowed since PHP 8.0. #1166
• :star: PHPCompatibility.Operators.NewOperators: detection of the PHP 8.0 nullsafe object operator. #1210
• :star: All "list based" sniffs, like NewFunctions, RemovedIniDirectives, ForbiddenNames etc, have received updates to account for more new/deprecated/removed PHP classes, constants, functions, function parameters, hash algorithms, interfaces, ini directives, reserved keywords and type casts. The listed information in these sniffs has also received general accuracy and completeness updates.
• :star: All type declaration related sniffs have received updates to account for new type keywords (like mixed and never) and new type syntaxes (union, intersection and DNF types) introduced in PHP.
• :star: A number of Helper classes and traits (for internal use only - see #1484).
• :books: Documentation for the following sniffs:
  • PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewConstVisibility #1323
  • PHPCompatibility.FunctionNameRestrictions.RemovedPHP4StyleConstructors #1292
  • PHPCompatibility.FunctionNameRestrictions.ReservedFunctionNames #1293
  • PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.ArgumentFunctionsReportCurrentValue #1294
  • PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedPCREModifiers #1295
  • PHPCompatibility.UseStatements.NewGroupUseDeclarations #1470
  • PHPCompatibility.UseStatements.NewUseConstFunction #1470
  • PHPCompatibility.Variables.NewUniformVariableSyntax #1539
  • Additionally, nearly all newly added sniffs include documentation.

Changed

• :two_hearts: All sniffs are now cross-version compatibility with both PHP_CodeSniffer 3.x as well as 4.x. #1911
• :fire: All PHPCompatibility sniffs are now final classes. #1261, #1273, #1875. Fixes #608, #638, #793, #1042 Sniffs extending other sniffs can cause problems with the autoloading in PHP_CodeSniffer, leading to "class already declared" errors.
• :twisted_rightwards_arrows: The PHPCompatibility.Classes.ForbiddenAbstractPrivateMethods sniff has been renamed to PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.AbstractPrivateMethods and now also detects the PHP 8.0 change to allow abstract private methods in traits. #1149
• :twisted_rightwards_arrows: The PHPCompatibility.Miscellaneous.ValidIntegers has been moved to the Numbers category and is now called PHPCompatibility.Numbers.ValidIntegers. #1004
• :twisted_rightwards_arrows: The check for the PHP 7.0 change in how hexadecimal numeric strings are handled, has been removed from the PHPCompatibility.Miscellaneous.ValidIntegers sniff and now lives in a dedicated sniff, called PHPCompatibility.Numbers.RemovedHexadecimalNumericStrings. #1004
• :twisted_rightwards_arrows: PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.NewParamTypeDeclarations: the InvalidTypeHintFound error code has been split into two error codes. #1727. Fixes #1726
  • The InvalidTypeHintFound error code remains in effect for types which are invalid in a parameter context.
  • The new InvalidLongTypeFound error code will now warn about the use of "long" types, which are likely typos, but could be valid class names.
• :twisted_rightwards_arrows: PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewTypedProperties: the InvalidType error code has been split into two error codes. #1728
  • The InvalidType error code remains in effect for types which are invalid in a property context.
  • The new InvalidLongType error code will now warn about the use of "long" types, which are likely typos, but could be valid class names.
• :green_heart: PHPCompatibility.Upgrade.LowPHP: the minimum recommended PHP version is now 7.2.0. #1550
• :pushpin: The testVersion configuration variable will now also be recognized when provided in lowercase (testversion). #969
• :pushpin: Passing an invalid testVersion will now result in either an InvalidTestVersion or an InvalidTestVersionRange Exception being thrown. #1548
• :pushpin: A lot of the sniffs have had updates to handle various new PHP syntaxes and features. :warning: Note: this task is not yet complete, so some sniffs may still throw false positives/negatives when confronted with modern PHP.
• :pushpin: MiscHelper::isUseOfGlobalConstant() will no longer recognize constant declarations as "use of". #1888
• :pushpin: Both the PHPCompatibility.Constants.NewConstants as well as the PHPCompatibility.Constants.RemovedConstants sniffs now special case the handling of the T_BAD_CHARACTER constant, which was removed from PHP in PHP 7.0, but then re-introduced in PHP 7.4. #1586. Fixes #1351
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.Classes.RemovedOrphanedParent the $classScopeTokens property is now private, it should never have been public in the first place. #983
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.Classes.RemovedOrphanedParent will now also flag parent when used as a type declaration in an interface. #1499
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.ControlStructures.NewExecutionDirectives now more accurately determines whether the value of a directive is valid. #1416
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.NonStaticMagicMethods will now also flag incorrect modifiers for the __wakeup() method, as enforced by PHP since PHP 8.0. #1821
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.FunctionNameRestrictions.RemovedPHP4StyleConstructors will not report on PHP-4 style constructors if the minimum supported PHP version, as indicated via testVersion, is PHP 8.0 or higher, as on PHP 8.0 the concept of PHP-4 style constructors no longer exists in PHP. #1563
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.FunctionNameRestrictions.ReservedFunctionNames will now bow out for the PHP 7.4 __serialize() and __unserialize() magic methods. #1142
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.FunctionNameRestrictions.ReservedFunctionNames will now ignore deprecated functions more consistently. #1564
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.ArgumentFunctionsReportCurrentValue will now throw an error, instead of a warning, when a passed parameter is unset(). #1286
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.ArgumentFunctionsReportCurrentValue will now recognize and handle numeric $options being passed to the target function calls. #1892
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.ArgumentFunctionsReportCurrentValue will now warn against the use of debug_*backtrace() as a PHP 8.1+ first class callable. #1892
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.Interfaces.InternalInterfaces will now also flag internal interfaces which cannot be extended when used in an extends clause. #1566
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.Interfaces.NewInterfaces will now detect interfaces used in catch conditions. #968. Fixes #967
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.Interfaces.NewInterfaces will now also detect new interfaces when used in an extends clause. #1259
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.Keywords.ForbiddenNames will no longer report on reserved keywords being used in a namespace name as allowed since PHP 8.0 (reporting depends on the testVersion passed). #1402
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.Keywords.ForbiddenNames will now strictly only flag forbidden names at the point of declaration. #1368
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.Keywords.ForbiddenNames will now also check for declarations using "other" and soft reserved keywords. #1399 This was previously checked via the PHPCompatibility.Keywords.ForbiddenNamesAsDeclared sniff (now removed).
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.Keywords.ForbiddenNames will not flag keywords, introduced in PHP 7.0 or later, when used as method or OO constant names, as this is not a compatibility issue. #1633, #1641
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.Keywords.ForbiddenNames will not flag keywords, introduced in PHP 8.0 or later, when used in a namespace name, as this is not a compatibility issue. #1641
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewHTMLEntitiesEncodingDefault: will now also sniff for affected function calls to get_html_translation_table(). #1041
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.Syntax.NewFunctionCallTrailingComma will now also detect trailing commas in exit/die as function calls (PHP 8.4+). #1807
• :pencil2: Various sniffs which would warn for the use of a deprecated feature have been updated to throw an error for PHP 8.0 having removed these features.
• :pencil2: The error messages of various sniffs have been improved. In some cases, the line on which the error is thrown may have changed to flag the problematic code with higher precision.
• :pencil2: The error levels (warning vs error) used in all sniffs have been reviewed and made consistent. #1282. Fixes #1163 PHP deprecations should translate to a warning from PHPCompatibility, PHP removals and new features should translate to an error. This also impacts some of the error codes as detailed in the upgrade guide.
• :pencil2: The error codes of various (modular) warnings/errors have changed in light of parameter name renames done in PHP Core to support named arguments in PHP 8.0.
• :pencil2: Various sniffs no longer get confused over comments in unexpected places.
• :pencil2: Various sniffs now have improved parse error/live coding tolerance.
• :wrench: Composer: a replace directive has been added to discourage use of the old package name. #976
• :wrench: Composer: The package will now identify itself as a static analysis tool. #1346
• :wrench: :umbrella: Various housekeeping, including general maintenance, improvements to speed up the sniffs, improvements to CI, the tests and documentation.

Removed

• :no_entry_sign: Support for PHP 5.3. #956. Fixes #835
• :no_entry_sign: Support for PHP_CodeSniffer < 3.13.3. #956, #1352, #1355, #1662, #1686, #1714, #1806, #1900. Fixes #835, #1347
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility.Keywords.ForbiddenNamesAsInvokedFunctions sniff. #1367. Fixes #105, #1024
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility.Keywords.ForbiddenNamesAsDeclared sniff. #1399. Fixes #1024
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility.Upgrade.LowPHPCS sniff. #1549
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\PHPCSHelper class in favour of PHPCSUtils. #979
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\AbstractComplexVersionSniff class in favour of internal Helper traits. #1406
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\AbstractNewFeatureSniff class in favour of internal Helper traits. #1406
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\AbstractRemovedFeatureSniff class in favour of internal Helper traits. #1406
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\ComplexVersionInterface class in favour of internal Helper traits. #1406
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::addMessage() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #1363
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::arrayKeysToLowercase(). Use the PHP native array_change_key_case() function instead. #979
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::determineNamespace() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #979
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::doesFunctionCallHaveParameters() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #979
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::getCompleteTextString() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #979
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::getDeclaredNamespaceName() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #979
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::getFQClassNameFromDoubleColonToken() in favour of an internal Helper class. #1571
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::getFQClassNameFromNewToken() in favour of an internal Helper class. #1571
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::getFQExtendedClassName() in favour of an internal Helper class. #1571
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::getFQName() in favour of an internal Helper class. #1571
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::getFunctionCallParameter() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #979
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::getFunctionCallParameters() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #979
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::getFunctionCallParameterCount() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #979
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::getHashAlgorithmParameter() in favour of an internal Helper trait. #1250
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::getReturnTypeHintName() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #1448
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::getReturnTypeHintToken() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #1448
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::getTypeHintsFromFunctionDeclaration() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #1448
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::inClassScope() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #1429
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::isClassProperty() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #979
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::isClassConstant() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #979
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::isNamespaced() without replacement. #1551
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::isNegativeNumber() in favour of an internal Helper class. #1493, #1567
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::isNumber() in favour of an internal Helper class. #1493, #1567
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::isNumericCalculation() in favour of an internal Helper class. #1568
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::isPositiveNumber() in favour of an internal Helper class. #1493, #1567
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::isShortList() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #979
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::isShortTernary() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #979
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::isUnaryPlusMinus() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #979
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::isUseOfGlobalConstant() in favour of an internal Helper class. #1572
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::isVariable() in favour of an internal Helper class. #1570
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::stringToErrorCode() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #1363
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::stripQuotes() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #979
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::stripVariables() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #1398
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::supportsAbove() in favour of an internal Helper class. #1237, #1555
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::supportsBelow() in favour of an internal Helper class. #1237, #1555
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::tokenHasScope() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #979
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::validDirectScope() in favour of PHPCSUtils. #979
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::$iniFunctions without replacement. #1251
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::$hashAlgoFunctions in favour of an internal Helper trait. #1250
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::$superglobals in favour of PHPCSUtils. #1018
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility\Sniff::REGEX_COMPLEX_VARS in favour of PHPCSUtils. #1398

Fixed

• :bug: Deprecation notice in testVersion handling when running on PHP 8.1+. #1276
• :bug: Sniffs looking for function calls will now determine more accurately if whatever is being looked at, is actually a (non-namespaced) function call. #962, related to #961
• :bug: Various sniffs explicitly looking for/ignoring null/true/false could get confused over fully qualified and/or non-lowercase use of these keywords. #1877, #1902, #1906
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewClasses will no longer throw false positives for imported namespaced classes with a class name overlapping one of the new global PHP classes. #1695. Fixes #1291
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewClasses and PHPCompatibility.Classes.RemovedClasses did not always correctly correlate the class name from self. #1893
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewLateStaticBinding did not flag instanceof static or `new static. #957
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewTypedProperties PHP native build-in types should be handled case-insensitively. #1205
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewTypedProperties false negative for edge case where a property declaration would be closed via a PHP close tag. #1703
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Classes.RemovedClasses will no longer throw false positives for imported namespaced classes with a class name overlapping one of the new global PHP classes. #1924
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Classes.RemovedOrphanedParent could get confused over an upstream tokenizer issue when a function declared to return by reference would be called "parent". #1499. Fixes #1489
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Constants.NewConstants and PHPCompatibility.Constants.RemovedConstants will throw fewer false positives for constructs which are not a global constant, but mirror the name of a PHP constant. #1888
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Constants.NewMagicClassConstant would incorrectly flag static function calls to a method called class. #1500
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.ControlStructures.NewExecutionDirectives: directive names should be handled case-insensitively. #1416
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.ControlStructures.NewExecutionDirectives: multi-directive statements were not analyzed correctly. #1416
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.ForbiddenParametersWithSameName did not examine abstract methods or interface methods. #991
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.NewClosure could get confused over $this and self being used in nested closed structures in the body of the closure. #1928
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.NewParamTypeDeclarations did not examine nested function declarations. #996
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.NewParamTypeDeclarations PHP native build-in types should be handled case-insensitively. #1203
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.NewParamTypeDeclarations would incorrectly throw the OutsideClassScopeFound error for PHP < 5.2. #1203
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.NewReturnTypeDeclarations PHP native build-in types should be handled case-insensitively. #1204
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.NonStaticMagicMethods would incorrectly flag non-public __destruct() methods as having the wrong visibility. #1543. Fixes #1542
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionNameRestrictions.RemovedNamespacedAssert did not handle nested function declarations correctly. #1169
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionNameRestrictions.ReservedFunctionNames did not handle nested function declarations correctly. #1142
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.ArgumentFunctionsUsage: TypeError when run on PHP 8.0+. #1213
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.ArgumentFunctionsUsage would throw false positives for namespaced functions mirroring a name of a target function of the sniff. #1890
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.ArgumentFunctionsUsage could get confused over a method declared to return by reference. #1890
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.ArgumentFunctionsReportCurrentValue: prevent false positive when passed parameter is used in a return, exit or throw statement. #1208, #1286. Fixes #1207
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.ArgumentFunctionsReportCurrentValue: prevent false positive when passed parameter is used in isset() or empty(). #1286
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.ArgumentFunctionsReportCurrentValue: prevent false positive when passed parameter is only assigned to another variable in a "simple assignment". #1286. Fixes #1240
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.ArgumentFunctionsReportCurrentValue would incorrectly ignore function calls when passed a namespaced constant mirroring the global DEBUG_BACKTRACE_IGNORE_ARGS constant. #1892
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.ArgumentFunctionsReportCurrentValue will now check for calls to array_slice()/array_splice() case-insensitively and will prevent false negatives if a namespaced function is encountered mirroring the global PHP function we're looking for. #1892
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.ArgumentFunctionsReportCurrentValue now recognizes and handles negative offsets passed to array_slice()/array_splice() correctly. #1892
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.ArgumentFunctionsReportCurrentValue now recognizes and handles the $length parameter if passed to array_slice()/array_splice(). #1892
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.ArgumentFunctionsReportCurrentValue did not handle (parameter overrides via) list assignments correctly. #1892
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.ArgumentFunctionsReportCurrentValue will now more often recognize when a parameter is touched, but not changed when the parameter is used in a control structure condition. #1892
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Interfaces.InternalInterfaces will no longer throw false positives for imported namespaced classes with a class name overlapping one of the new global PHP classes. #1700. Fixes #1649
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Interfaces.NewInterfaces did not handle nested function declarations correctly. #1259
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Interfaces.NewInterfaces will no longer throw false positives for imported namespaced classes with a class name overlapping one of the new global PHP classes. #1700
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.InitialValue.NewConstantArraysUsingDefine could get confused over namespaced function calls and class instantiations. #1518
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.InitialValue.NewConstantArraysUsingDefine could fail to detect array values in a compound parameter. #1518
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.InitialValue.NewConstantArraysUsingDefine could throw false positives for constants with a closure/arrow function callback as its value. #1518
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Keywords.ForbiddenNames did not handle nested function declarations correctly. #1368
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Keywords.ForbiddenNames did not always flag keywords used in a namespace name correctly. #1368
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Keywords.ForbiddenNames did not always flag aliases in import multi-use, group use and trait use statements correctly. #1368
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Lists.ForbiddenEmptyListAssignment: false positive for a hard-coded empty (sub-)array in a foreach iterable expression. #1401. Fixes #1341
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewFopenModes could throw false positives for dynamically generated parameter values. #1045
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewIconvMbstringCharsetDefault now examines each array item in the $options parameter individually to prevent false negatives. #1588
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewIconvMbstringCharsetDefault would throw false positives for the $encoding parameter not being explicitly passed on functions which didn't exist in PHP 5.6 (when the default value of the parameter was changed). #1779. Fixes #1777
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewPackFormat could throw false positives for dynamically generated parameter values. #1044. Fixes #1043
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewPasswordAlgoConstantValues could throw false positives for dynamically generated parameter values. #1531
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewPCREModifiers and PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedPCREModifiers could throw false positives for dynamically generated parameter values. #1764
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewProcOpenCmdArray could fail to warn about the use of escapeshellarg() when the PHP 7.4 array format for the $command parameter is used, if the function call was not in lowercase. #1878
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedIconvEncoding: TypeError when run on PHP 8.0+. #1212
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedMbstringModifiers could throw false positives for dynamically generated parameter values. #1046
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedMbStrrposEncodingThirdParam could throw both false positives as well as have false negatives for dynamically generated parameter values. #1722. Fixes #1721
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedNonCryptoHashSniff did not handle a fully qualified HASH_HMAC constant as a parameter value correctly. #1532
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedSetlocaleString could throw false positives for dynamically generated parameter values. #1047
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Syntax.ForbiddenCallTimePassByReference was not recognized for anonymous class instantiations and class instantiations using hierarchy keywords. #1912
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Syntax.NewFlexibleHeredocNowdoc the ClosingMarkerNoNewLine error code was inadvertently used for two different errors. This error code has now been split into ClosingMarkerNoNewLine and CloserFoundInBody. #1697. Fixes #1696
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Syntax.NewFunctionCallTrailingComma would throw a false positive for a trailing comma in a function declaration if the function was declared to return by reference. #1534
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Syntax.NewFunctionCallTrailingComma false negative on trailing comma in class instantiations. #1534
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Syntax.NewShortArray would incorrectly also flag short lists. #1010
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Syntax.RemovedCurlyBraceArrayAccess did not flag curly brace array access on a namespaced constant. #1889
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.UseDeclarations.NewUseConstFunction could throw false positive in some parse error edge cases. #1537
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Variables.ForbiddenThisUseContexts false positive for use of $this in unset(), while $this is not the variable being unset. #1670. Fixes #1666
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Variables.NewUniformVariableSyntax did not handle static access using the hierarchy keywords correctly. #1013
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Variables.RemovedPredefinedGlobalVariables false positive on static access to class property shadowing the name of one of the removed global variables. #1014
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Variables.RemovedPredefinedGlobalVariables did not correctly limit the scope of the token walking to determine whether $php_errormsg was the deprecated global variable. #1014

Credits

Thanks go out to @afilina, @bebehr, @diedexx, @elazar, @Flyingmana, @fredden, @GaryJones, @hugovk, @kporras07, @MarkMaldaba, @magikstm, @rdss-sknott, @stevegrunwell, @stronk7 and @zeriyoshi for their contributions to this version. :clap:

Additionally thanks go out to everyone who has been testing the develop branch and has reported issues to help us get to where we are now.

See all related issues and PRs in the 9.3.5 milestone.

Added

• :star: PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewClasses sniff: recognize the new FFI extension related classes as introduced in PHP 7.4. #949
• :star: PHPCompatibility.IniDirectives.NewIniDirectives sniff: detect use of the new FFI extension related ini directives as introduced in PHP 7.4. #949

Changed

• :pencil: PHPCompatibility.Syntax.NewShortArray: improved clarity of the error message and made it consistent with other error messages in this standard. #934
• :pencil: PHPCompatibility.Interfaces.NewInterfaces: updated the URL which is mentioned in select error messages. #942
• :recycle: Another slew of code documentation fixes. #937, #939, #940, #941, #943, #944, #951, #950. Fixes #734.
• :green_heart: Travis: various tweaks. The builds against PHP 7.4 are no longer allowed to fail. #935, #938 For running the sniffs on PHP 7.4, it is recommended to use PHP_CodeSniffer 3.5.0+ as PHP_CodeSniffer itself is not compatible with PHP 7.4 until version 3.5.0.

Fixed

• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewClasses: two new PHP 7.4 classes were being checked as if they were Exceptions. #945

Credits

Thanks go out to William Entriken for their contribution to this version. :clap:

See all related issues and PRs in the 9.3.4 milestone.

Fixed

• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Keywords.ForbiddenNames: false positive for list when used in a foreach() condition. #930. Fixes #928, #929

Credits

Thanks go out to Sergii Bondarenko for their contribution to this version. :clap:

See all related issues and PRs in the 9.3.3 milestone.

Added

• :star: PHPCompatibility.Constants.NewConstants sniff: detection of yet more (undocumented) PHP 7.2 Sodium constants. #924
• :star: PHPCompatibility.Keywords.ForbiddenNames sniff: detect the use of more reserved keywords which are not allowed to be used to name certain constructs. #923. Fixes #922

Fixed

• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionNameRestrictions.RemovedPHP4StyleConstructors: false positive detecting PHP4-style constructors when declared in interfaces. The class implementing the interface will not have the same name as the interface, so the actual method would not be regarded as a PHP4 style constructor. #921

Credits

Thanks go out to Nikhil for their contribution to this version. :clap:

See all related issues and PRs in the 9.3.2 milestone.

Added

• :star: PHPCompatibility.Constants.NewConstants sniff: detection of the PHP 7.2 SODIUM_CRYPTO_PWHASH_ALG_ARGON2ID13 constant. #915
• :books: Readme: a list of projects which are build upon or extend PHPCompatibility. #904

Changed

• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.FunctionNameRestrictions.RemovedPHP4StyleConstructors: minor efficiency fix to make the sniff faster. #912
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.FunctionNameRestrictions.ReservedFunctionNames: functions marked as [@deprecated](https://github.com/deprecated) in the function docblock will now be ignored by this sniff. #917. Fixes #911
• :pencil: PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.ForbiddenToStringParameters: the $ooScopeTokens property is now protected, it should never have been public in the first place. #907
• :recycle: More code documentation fixes. #903, #916
• :books: Readme/Contributing: various tweaks. #904, #905

Fixed

• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.OptionalToRequiredFunctionParameters: false positive when a class is instantiated which has the same name as one of the affected functions. #914. Fixes #913
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.RequiredToOptionalFunctionParameters: false positive when a class is instantiated which has the same name as one of the affected functions. #914
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.MethodUse.NewDirectCallsToClone: false positive on calling __clone() from within the class being cloned #910. Fixes #629 (comment)
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Miscellaneous.ValidIntegers: binary numbers using an uppercase B were not always recognized correctly. #909

See all related issues and PRs in the 9.3.1 milestone.

Changed

• :recycle: A whole slew of code documentation fixes. #892, #895, #896, #897, #898, #899, #900
• :wrench: Travis: minor tweaks to the build script. #893

Fixed

• :bug: PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedImplodeFlexibleParamOrder: false positive when an array item in the second parameter contained a ternary. #891. Fixes #890
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedImplodeFlexibleParamOrder: will now take array casts into account when determining which parameter is $pieces. #891.
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedImplodeFlexibleParamOrder: hardening of the logic to not examine the second parameter when the first is just and only a text string ($glue). #891.

See all related issues and PRs in the 9.3.0 milestone.

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Changes expected in PHPCompatibility 10.0.0

The next version of PHPCompatibility is expected to include a new external dependency.

In this same release, support for PHP < 5.4 and PHP_CodeSniffer < 2.6.0 will be dropped.

The 10.0.0 release is expected around the same time as the release of PHP 7.4 - end of November/beginning of December 2019.

Added

• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Miscellaneous.NewPHPOpenTagEOF sniff to detect a stand-alone PHP open tag at the end of a file, without trailing newline, as will be supported as of PHP 7.4. #843
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.ForbiddenStripTagsSelfClosingXHTML sniff to detect calls to strip_tags() passing self-closing XHTML tags in the $allowable_tags parameter. This has not been supported since PHP 5.3.4. #866
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewHTMLEntitiesEncodingDefault sniff to detect calls to html_entity_decode(), htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars() which are impacted by the change to the default value of the $encoding parameter in PHP 5.4. #862
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewIconvMbstringCharsetDefault sniff to detect code impacted by the change in the default_charset value in PHP 5.6. #864 Fixes #839
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewIDNVariantDefault sniff to detect calls to idn_to_ascii() and idn_to_utf8() impacted by the PHP 7.4 change in the default value for the $variant parameter. #861
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewPasswordAlgoConstantValues sniff to detect calls to password_hash() and password_needs_rehash() impacted by the changed value of the PASSWORD_DEFAULT, PASSWORD_BCRYPT, PASSWORD_ARGON2I and PASSWORD_ARGON2ID constants in PHP 7.4. #865
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewProcOpenCmdArray sniff to detect calls to proc_open() passing an array for the $cmd parameter as supported as of PHP 7.4. #869
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewStripTagsAllowableTagsArray sniff to detect calls to strip_tags() passing an array for the $allowable_tags parameter as will be supported as of PHP 7.4. #867
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedImplodeFlexibleParamOrder sniff to detect implode() being called with $glue and $pieces in reverse order from the documented argument order. This was previously allowed for historical reasons, but will be deprecated in PHP 7.4. #846
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedMbStrrposEncodingThirdParam sniff to detect the $encoding being passed as the third, instead of the fourth parameter, to mb_strrpos() as has been soft deprecated since PHP 5.2 and will be hard deprecated as of PHP 7.4. #860
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Syntax.RemovedCurlyBraceArrayAccess sniff to detect array and string offset access using curly braces as will be deprecated as of PHP 7.4. #855
  • In contrast to any other sniff in the PHPCompatibility standard, this sniff contains an auto-fixer.
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.TextStrings.NewUnicodeEscapeSequence sniff to detect use of the PHP 7.0+ unicode codepoint escape sequences and issues with invalid sequences. #856
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Upgrade.LowPHP sniff to give users of old PHP versions advance warning when support will be dropped in the near future. #838 At this moment, the intention is to drop support for PHP 5.3 by the end of this year.
• :star: PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewClasses sniff: recognize the new WeakReference class as introduced in PHP 7.4. #857
• :star: PHPCompatibility.Constants.NewConstants sniff: detection of new Curl constants as introduced in PHP 7.3.5. #878
• :star: PHPCompatibility.Constants.NewConstants sniff: detection of the revived T_BAD_CHARACTER constant as re-introduced in PHP 7.4. #882
• :star: PHPCompatibility.Constants.NewConstants sniff: detection of the new IMG_FILTER_SCATTER and PASSWORD_ARGON2_PROVIDER constants as introduced in PHP 7.4. #887
• :star: PHPCompatibility.Constants.RemovedConstants sniff: detection of use of the CURLPIPE_HTTP1 constant which will be deprecated in PHP 7.4. #879
• :star: PHPCompatibility.Constants.RemovedConstants sniff: detection of use of the FILTER_SANITIZE_MAGIC_QUOTES constant which will be deprecated in PHP 7.4. #845
• :star: PHPCompatibility.Constants.RemovedConstants sniff: detection of use of the T_CHARACTER and T_BAD_CHARACTER constants which were removed in PHP 7.0. #882
• :star: PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.NewMagicMethods sniff: recognize the new __serialize() and __unserialize() magic methods as introduced in PHP 7.4. #868
• :star: PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.NewMagicMethods sniff: recognize the PHP 5.0 __construct() and __destruct() magic methods. #884
• :star: PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.NonStaticMagicMethods sniff: recognize the new __serialize() and __unserialize() magic methods as introduced in PHP 7.4. #868
• :star: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.NewFunctions sniff: recognize the new PHP 7.4 function imagecreatefromtga(). #873
• :star: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.RemovedFunctionParameters sniff: recognize the deprecation of the $age parameter of the curl_version() function. #874
• :star: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.RemovedFunctions sniff: recognize the PHP 7.4 deprecated convert_cyr_string()(), ezmlm_hash(), get_magic_quotes_gpc(), get_magic_quotes_runtime(), hebrevc(), is_real(), money_format() and restore_include_path() functions. #847
• :star: PHPCompatibility.IniDirectives.NewIniDirectives sniff: detect use of the new PHP 7.4 zend.exception_ignore_args ini directive. #871
• :star: PHPCompatibility.IniDirectives.RemovedIniDirectives sniff: detect use of the allow_url_include ini directive which is deprecated as of PHP 7.4. #870
• :star: PHPCompatibility.IniDirectives.RemovedIniDirectives sniff: detection of use of the opcache.load_comments directive which was removed in PHP 7.0. #883
• :star: PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewHashAlgorithms: recognize use of the new PHP 7.4 crc32c hash algorithm. #872
• :star: PHPCompatibility.TypeCasts.RemovedTypeCasts sniff: detect usage of the (real) type cast which will be deprecated in PHP 7.4. #844
• :star: Recognize the recode extension functionality which will be removed in PHP 7.4 (moved to PECL) in the RemovedExtensions and RemovedFunctions sniffs. #841
• :star: Recognize the OPcache extension functionality which was be introduced in PHP 5.5, but not yet fully accounted for in the NewFunctions and NewIniDirectives sniffs. #883
• :star: New getCompleteTextString() utility method to the PHPCompatibility\Sniff class. #856
• :umbrella: Unit test for the PHPCompatibility.Upgrade.LowPHPCS sniff.
• :umbrella: Some extra unit tests for the PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewNegativeStringOffset, PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedMbStringModifiers and sniffs. #876, #877
• :books: CONTRIBUTING.md: Added a list of typical sources for information about changes to PHP. #875

Changed

• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.NewExceptionsFromToString sniff: the sniff will now also examine the function docblock, if available, and will throw an error when a [@throws](https://github.com/throws) tag is found in the docblock. #880. Fixes #863
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.NonStaticMagicMethods sniff: will now also check the visibility and static (or not) requirements of the magic __construct(), __destruct(), __clone(), __debugInfo(), __invoke() and __set_state() methods. #885
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.Syntax.NewArrayStringDereferencing sniff: the sniff will now also recognize array string dereferencing using curly braces as was (silently) supported since PHP 7.0. #851
  • The sniff will now also throw errors for each dereference found on the array/string, not just the first one.
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.Syntax.NewClassMemberAccess sniff: the sniff will now also recognize class member access on instantiation and cloning using curly braces as was (silently) supported since PHP 7.0. #852
  • The sniff will now also throw errors for each access detected, not just the first one.
  • The line number on which the error is thrown in now set more precisely.
• :pushpin: PHPCompatibility.Syntax.NewFunctionArrayDereferencing sniff: the sniff will now also recognize function array dereferencing using curly braces as was (silently) supported since PHP 7.0. #853
  • The sniff will now also throw errors for each access detected, not just the first one.
  • The line number on which the error is thrown in now set more precisely.
• :recycle: Various code clean-up and improvements. #849, #850
• :recycle: Various minor inline documentation fixes. #854, #886
• :wrench: Travis: various tweaks to the build script. #834, #842

Fixed

• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.ForbiddenParametersWithSameName sniff: variable names are case-sensitive, so recognition of same named parameters should be done in a case-sensitive manner. #848
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.NewExceptionsFromToString sniff: Exceptions thrown within a try should not trigger the sniff. #880. Fixes #863
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.NewExceptionsFromToString sniff: the $ooScopeTokens property should never have been a public property. #880.
• :umbrella: Some of the unit tests for the PHPCompatibility.Operators.RemovedTernaryAssociativity sniff were not being run. #836

See all related issues and PRs in the 9.2.0 milestone.

To keep informed of the progress of covering "everything PHP 7.4" in PHPCompatibility, please subscribe to issue #808.

Added

• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Classes.ForbiddenAbstractPrivateMethods sniff to detect methods declared as both private as well as abstract. This was allowed between PHP 5.0.0 and 5.0.4, but disallowed in PHP 5.1 as the behaviour of private and abstract are mutually exclusive. #822
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewTypedProperties sniff to detect PHP 7.4 typed property declarations. #801, #829
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Classes.RemovedOrphanedParent sniff to detect the use of the parent keyword in classes without a parent (non-extended classes). This code pattern is deprecated in PHP 7.4 and will become a compile-error in PHP 8.0. #818
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.NewExceptionsFromToString sniff to detect throwing exceptions from __toString() methods. This would previously result in a fatal error, but will be allowed as of PHP 7.4. #814
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.ForbiddenToStringParameters sniff to detect __toString() function declarations expecting parameters. This was disallowed in PHP 5.3. #815
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.MethodUse.ForbiddenToStringParameters sniff to detect direct calls to __toString() magic methods passing parameters. This was disallowed in PHP 5.3. #830
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Operators.ChangedConcatOperatorPrecedence sniff to detect code affected by the upcoming change in operator precedence for the concatenation operator. The concatenation operator precedence will be lowered in PHP 8.0, with deprecation notices for code affected being thrown in PHP 7.4. #805
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Operators.RemovedTernaryAssociativity sniff to detect code relying on left-associativity of the ternary operator. This behaviour will be deprecated in PHP 7.4 and removed in PHP 8.0. #810
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Syntax.NewArrayUnpacking sniff to detect the use of the spread operator to unpack arrays when declaring a new array, as introduced in PHP 7.4. #804
• :star: PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewClasses sniff: recognize the new ReflectionReference class as introduced in PHP 7.4. #820
• :star: PHPCompatibility.Constants.NewConstants sniff: detection of the new PHP 7.4 Core (Standard), MBString, Socket and Tidy constants. #821
• :star: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.NewFunctions sniff: detect usage of the new PHP 7.4 get_mangled_object_vars(), mb_str_split(), openssl_x509_verify(), password_algos(), pcntl_unshare(), sapi_windows_set_ctrl_handler() and sapi_windows_generate_ctrl_event() functions. #811, #819, #827
• :star: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.NewFunctions sniff: recognize the new OCI functions as introduced in PHP 7.2.14 and PHP 7.3.1. #786
• :star: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.RemovedFunctions sniff: recognize the PHP 7.4 deprecated ldap_control_paged_result_response() and ldap_control_paged_result() functions. #831
• :star: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.RemovedFunctions sniff: recognize the Payflow Pro/pfpro functions as removed in PHP 5.1. #823
• :star: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.RequiredToOptionalFunctionParameters sniff: account for the parameters for array_merge() and array_merge_recursive() becoming optional in PHP 7.4. #817
• :star: PHPCompatibility.IniDirectives.RemovedIniDirectives sniff: recognize the Payflow Pro/pfpro ini directives as removed in PHP 5.1. #823
• :star: Recognize the interbase/Firebird extension functionality which will be removed in PHP 7.4 (moved to PECL) in the RemovedConstants, RemovedExtensions, RemovedFunctions and RemovedIniDirectives sniffs. #807
• :star: Recognize the wddx extension functionality which will be removed in PHP 7.4 (moved to PECL) in the RemovedExtensions and RemovedFunctions sniffs. #826
• :star: New isShortTernary() and isUnaryPlusMinus() utility methods to the PHPCompatibility\Sniff class. #810, #805

Changed

• :pencil2: The PHPCompatibility.Extensions.RemovedExtensions sniff will now only report on the removed Payflow Pro extension when a function uses pfpro_ as a prefix. Previously, it used the pfpro prefix (without underscore) for detection. #812
• :pencil2: The error message thrown when the T_ELLIPSIS token, i.e. the spread operator, is detected. #803 PHP 7.4 adds a third use-case for the spread operator. The adjusted error message accounts for this.
• :umbrella: PHPCompatibility.FunctionDeclarations.NewParamTypeDeclarations is now also tested with parameters using the splat operator. #802
• :books: The documentation now uses the GitHub repo of PHP_CodeSniffer as the canonical entry point for PHP_CodeSniffer. Previously, it would point to the PEAR package. #788
• :books: The links in the changelog now all point to the PHPCompatibility/PHPCompatibility repo and no longer to the (deprecated) wimg/PHPCompatibility repo. #828
• :recycle: Various minor inline documentation improvements. #825
• :wrench: Various performance optimizations and code simplifications. #783, #784, #795, #813
• :green_heart: Travis: build tests are now being run against PHP 7.4 (unstable) as well. #790 Note: the builds are currently not (yet) tested against PHP 8.0 (unstable) as there is no compatible PHPUnit version available (yet).
• :wrench: Travis: The build script has been refactored to use stages to get the most relevant results faster. Additionally some more tweaks have been made to improve and/or simplify the build script. #798
• :wrench: Build/PHPCS: warnings are no longer allowed for the PHPCompatibility native code. #800
• :wrench: Build/PHPCS: added variable assignment alignment check and file include check to the PHPCompatibility native CS configuration. #824
• :wrench: The minimum version for the recommended DealerDirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer Composer plugin has been upped to 0.5.0. #791

Fixed

• :bug: The PHPCompatibility.Extensions.RemovedExtensions sniff contained a typo in the alternative recommended for the removed mcve extension. #806
• :bug: The PHPCompatibility.Extensions.RemovedExtensions sniff listed the wrong removal version number for the Payflow Pro/pfpro extension (PHP 5.3 instead of the correct 5.1). #823

Credits

Thanks go out to Yılmaz and Tim Millwood for their contribution to this version. :clap:

See all related issues and PRs in the 9.1.1 milestone.

Fixed

• :bug: ForbiddenThisUseContexts: false positive for unsetting $this['key'] on objects implementing ArrayAccess. #781. Fixes #780

See all related issues and PRs in the 9.1.0 milestone.

Added

• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.ArgumentFunctionsReportCurrentValue sniff to detect code which could be affected by the PHP 7.0 change in the values reported by func_get_arg(), func_get_args(), debug_backtrace() and exception backtraces. #750. Fixes #585.
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.MethodUse.NewDirectCallsToClone sniff to detect direct call to a __clone() magic method which wasn't allowed prior to PHP 7.0. #743. Fixes #629.
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Variables.ForbiddenThisUseContext sniff to detect most of the inconsistencies surrounding the use of the $this variable, which were removed in PHP 7.1. #762, #771. Fixes #262 and #740.
• :star: NewClasses: detection of more native PHP Exceptions. #743, #753
• :star: NewConstants : detection of the new PHP 7.3 Curl, Stream Crypto and LDAP constants and some more PHP 7.0 Tokenizer constants. #752, #767, #778
• :star: NewFunctions sniff: recognize (more) new LDAP functions as introduced in PHP 7.3. #768
• :star: NewFunctionParameters sniff: recognize the new $serverctrls parameter which was added to a number of LDAP functions in PHP 7.3. #769
• :star: NewIniDirectives sniff: recognize the new imap.enable_insecure_rsh ini directive as introduced in PHP 7.1.25, 7.2.13 and 7.3.0. #770
• :star: NewInterfaces sniff: recognize two more Session related interfaces which were introduced in PHP 5.5.1 and 7.0 respectively. #748
• :star: Duplicate of upstream findStartOfStatement() method to the PHPCompatibility\PHPCSHelper class to allow for PHPCS cross-version usage of that method. #750

Changed

• :pushpin: RemovedPHP4StyleConstructors: will now also detect PHP4-style constructors when declared in interfaces. #751
• :pushpin: Sniff::validDirectScope(): the return value of this method has changed. Previously it would always be a boolean. It will stil return false when no valid direct scope has been found, but it will now return the stackPtr to the scope token if a valid direct scope was encountered. #758
• :rewind: NewOperators : updated the version number for T_COALESCE_EQUAL. #746
• :pencil: Minor improvement to an error message in the unit test suite. #742
• :recycle: Various code clean-up and improvements. #745, #756, #774
• :recycle: Various minor inline documentation fixes. #749, #757
• :umbrella: Improved code coverage recording. #744, #776
• :green_heart: Travis: build tests are now being run against PHP 7.3 as well. #511 Note: full PHP 7.3 support is only available in combination with PHP_CodeSniffer 2.9.2 or 3.3.1+ due to an incompatibility within PHP_CodeSniffer itself.

Fixed

• :white_check_mark: Compatibility with the upcoming release of PHPCS 3.4.0. Deal with changed behaviour of the PHPCS Tokenizer regarding binary type casts. #760
• :bug: InternalInterfaces: false negative for implemented/extended interfaces prefixed with a namespace separator. #775
• :bug: NewClasses: the introduction version of various native PHP Exceptions has been corrected. #743, #753
• :bug: NewInterfaces: false negative for implemented/extended interfaces prefixed with a namespace separator. #775
• :bug: RemovedPHP4StyleConstructors: the sniff would examine methods in nested anonymous classes as if they were methods of the higher level class. #751
• :rewind: RemovedPHP4StyleConstructors: the sniff will no longer throw false positives for the first method in an anonymous class when used in combination with PHPCS 2.3.x. #751
• :rewind: ReservedFunctionNames: fixed incorrect error message text for methods in anonymous classes when used in combination with PHPCS 2.3.x. #755
• :bug: ReservedFunctionNames: prevent duplicate errors being thrown for methods in nested anonymous classes. #755
• :bug: PHPCSHelper::findEndOfStatement(): minor bug fix. #749
• :bug: Sniff::isClassProperty(): class properties for classes nested in conditions or function calls were not always recognized as class properties. #758

Credits

Thanks go out to Jonathan Champ for his contribution to this version. :clap:

IMPORTANT: This release contains breaking changes. Please read the below information carefully before upgrading!

All sniffs have been placed in meaningful categories and a number of sniffs have been renamed to have more consistent, meaningful and future-proof names.

Both the PHPCompatibilityJoomla [GH | Packagist] as well as the PHPCompatibilityWP [GH | Packagist] rulesets have already been adjusted for this change and have released a new version which is compatible with this version of PHPCompatibility.

Aside from those CMS-based rulesets, this project now also offers a number of polyfill-library specific rulesets, such as PHPCompatibilityPasswordCompat [GH | Packagist] for @ircmaxell's password_compat libary, PHPCompatibilityParagonieRandomCompat and PHPCompatibilityParagonieSodiumCompat [GH | Packagist] for the Paragonie polyfills and a number of rulesets related to various polyfills offered by the Symfony project [GH | Packagist].

If your project uses one of these polyfills, please consider using these special polyfill rulesets to prevent false positives.

Also as of this version, Juliette Reinders Folmer is now officially a co-maintainer of this package.

Upgrade instructions

• If you have <exclude name="..."/> directives in your own project's custom ruleset which relate to sniffs from the PHPCompatibility library, you will need to update your ruleset to use the new sniff names.
• If you use the new PHPCS 3.2+ inline annotations, i.e. // phpcs:ignore Standard.Category.SniffName, in combination with PHPCompatibility sniff names, you will need to update these annotations.
• If you use neither of the above, you should be fine and upgrading should be painless.

Overview of all the sniff renames:

Changelog for version 9.0.0

See all related issues and PRs in the 9.0.0 milestone.

Added

• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ControlStructures.NewForeachExpressionReferencing sniff to detect referencing of $value within a foreach() when the iterated array is not a variable. This was not supported prior to PHP 5.5. #664
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ControlStructures.NewListInForeach sniff to detect unpacking nested arrays into separate variables via the list() construct in a foreach() statement. This was not supported prior to PHP 5.5. #657
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.FunctionNameRestrictions.RemovedNamespacedAssert sniff to detect declaring a function called assert() within a namespace. This has been deprecated as of PHP 7.3. #735. Partially fixes #718.
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Lists.AssignmentOrder sniff to detect list() constructs affected by the change in assignment order in PHP 7.0. #656
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Lists.NewKeyedList sniff to detect usage of keys in list(), support for which was added in PHP 7.1. #655. Fixes #252.
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Lists.NewListReferenceAssignment sniff to detect reference assignments being used in list() constructs, support for which has been added in PHP 7.3. #731
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Lists.NewShortList sniff to detect the shorthand array syntax [] being used for symmetric array destructuring as introduced in PHP 7.1. #654. Fixes #248.
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Operators.NewOperators sniff which checks for usage of the pow, pow equals, spaceship and coalesce (equals) operators. #738 These checks were previously contained within the PHPCompatibility.LanguageConstructs.NewLanguageConstructs sniff.
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.ForbiddenGetClassNull sniff to detect null being passed to get_class(), support for which has been removed in PHP 7.2 #659. Fixes #557.
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewArrayReduceInitialType sniff to detect non-integers being passed as the $initial parameter to the array_reduce() function, which was not supported before PHP 5.3. #666. Fixes #649
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewFopenModes sniff to examine the $mode parameter passed to fopen() for modes not available in older PHP versions. #658
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewNegativeStringOffset sniff to detect negative string offsets being passed to string manipulation functions which was not supported before PHP 7.1. #662. Partially fixes #253.
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.NewPackFormats sniff to examine the $format parameter passed to pack() for formats not available in older PHP versions. #665
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedIconvEncoding sniff to detect the PHP 5.6 deprecated encoding $types being passed to iconv_set_encoding(). #660. Fixes #475.
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedNonCryptoHashes sniff to detect non-cryptographic hash algorithms being passed to various hash_*() functions. This is no longer accepted as of PHP 7.2. #663. Fixes #559
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedSetlocaleString sniff to detect string literals being passed to the $category parameter of the setlocale() function. This behaviour was deprecated in PHP 4.2 and support has been removed in PHP 7.0. #661
• :star2: New PHPCompatibility.Syntax.NewFlexibleHeredocNowdoc sniff to detect the new heredoc/nowdoc format as allowed as of PHP 7.3. #736. Fixes #705. Note: This sniff is only supported in combination with PHP_CodeSniffer 2.6.0 and higher.
• :star: PHPCompatibility.Classes.NewClasses sniff: recognize the new CompileError and JsonException classes as introduced in PHP 7.3. #676
• :star: PHPCompatibility.Constants.NewConstants sniff: recognize new constants which are being introduced in PHP 7.3. #678
• :star: PHPCompatibility.Constants.RemovedConstants sniff: recognize constants which have been deprecated or removed in PHP 7.3. #710. Partially fixes #718.
• :star: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.NewFunctions sniff: recognize various new functions being introduced in PHP 7.3. #679
• :star: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.NewFunctions sniff: recognize the sapi_windows_*(), hash_hkdf() and pcntl_signal_get_handler() functions as introduced in PHP 7.1. #728
• :star: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.RemovedFunctionParameters sniff: recognize the deprecation of the $case_insensitive parameter for the define() function in PHP 7.3. #706
• :star: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.RemovedFunctions sniff: recognize the PHP 7.3 deprecation of the image2wbmp(), fgetss() and gzgetss() functions, as well as the deprecation of undocumented Mbstring function aliases. #681, #714, #720. Partially fixes #718.
• :star: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.RequiredToOptionalFunctionParameters sniff: account for the second parameter for array_push() and array_unshift() becoming optional in PHP 7.3, as well as for the $mode parameter for a range of ftp_*() functions becoming optional. #680
• :star: PHPCompatibility.IniDirectives.NewIniDirectives sniff: recognize new syslog and session ini directives as introduced in PHP 7.3. #702, #719, #730
• :star: PHPCompatibility.IniDirectives.NewIniDirectives sniff: recognize some more ini directives which were introduced in PHP 7.1. #727
• :star: PHPCompatibility.IniDirectives.RemovedIniDirectived sniff: recognize ini directives removed in PHP 7.3. #677, #717. Partially fixes #718.
• :star: New isNumericCalculation() and isVariable() utility methods to the PHPCompatibility\Sniff class. #664, #666
• :books: A section about the new sniff naming conventions to the Contributing file. #738

Changed

• :fire: All sniffs have been placed in meaningful categories and a number of sniffs have been renamed to have more consistent, meaningful and future-proof names. #738. Fixes #601, #692 See the table at the top of this changelog for details of all the file renames.
• :umbrella: The unit test files have been moved about as well. #738
  • The directory structure for these now mirrors the default directory structure used by PHPCS itself.
  • The file names of the unit test files have been adjusted for the changes made in the sniffs.
  • The unit test case files have been renamed and moved to the same directory as the actual test file they apply to.
  • The BaseSniffTest::sniffFile() method has been adjusted to match. The signature of this method has changed. Where it previously expected a relative path to the unit test case file, it now expects an absolute path.
  • The unit tests for the utility methods in the PHPCompatibility\Sniff class have been moved to a new PHPCompatibility\Util\Tests\Core subdirectory.
  • The bootstrap file used for PHPUnit has been moved to the project root directory and renamed phpunit-bootstrap.php.
• :twisted_rightwards_arrows: The PHPCompatibility.LanguageConstructs.NewLanguageConstructs sniff has been split into two sniffs. #738 The PHPCompatibility.LanguageConstructs.NewLanguageConstructs sniff now contains just the checks for the namespace separator and the ellipsis. The new PHPCompatibility.Operators.NewOperators sniff now contains the checks regarding the pow, pow equals, spaceship and coalesce (equals) operators.
• :pushpin: The PHPCompatibility.ParameterValues.RemovedMbstringModifiers sniff will now also recognize removed regex modifiers when used within a function call to one of the undocumented Mbstring function aliases for the Mbstring regex functions. #715
• :pushpin: The PHPCompatibility\Sniff::getFunctionCallParameter() utility method now allows for closures called via a variable. #723
• :pencil2: PHPCompatibility.Upgrade.LowPHPCS: the minimum supported PHPCS version is now 2.3.0. #699
• :pencil2: Minor inline documentation improvements. #738
• :umbrella: Minor improvements to the unit tests for the PHPCompatibility.FunctionNameRestrctions.RemovedMagicAutoload sniff. #716
• :recycle: Minor other optimizations. #698, #697
• :wrench: Minor improvements to the build tools. #701
• :wrench: Removed some unnecessary inline annotations. #700
• :books: Replaced some of the badges in the Readme file. #721, #722
• :books: Composer: updated the list of package authors. #739

Removed

• :no_entry_sign: Support for PHP_CodeSniffer 1.x and low 2.x versions. The new minimum version of PHP_CodeSniffer to be able to use this library is 2.3.0. #699. Fixes #691. The minimum recommended version of PHP_CodeSniffer remains the same, i.e. 2.6.0.
• :no_entry_sign: The \PHPCompatibility\Sniff::inUseScope() method has been removed as it is no longer needed now support for PHPCS 1.x has been dropped. #699
• :no_entry_sign: Composer: The autoload section has been removed from the composer.json file. #738. Fixes #568. Autoloading for this library is done via the PHP_CodeSniffer default mechanism, enhanced with our own autoloader, so the Composer autoloader shouldn't be needed and was causing issues in a particular use-case.

Fixed

• :bug: PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.NewFunctionParameters sniff: The new $mode parameter of the php_uname() function was added in PHP 4.3, not in PHP 7.0 as was previously being reported. The previous implementation of this check was based on an error in the PHP documentation. The error in the PHP documentation has been rectified and the sniff has followed suit. #711
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Generators.NewGeneratorReturn sniff: The sniff would throw false positives for return statements in nested constructs and did not correctly detect the scope which should be examined. #725. Fixes #724.
• :bug: PHPCompatibility.Keywords.NewKeywords sniff: PHP magic constants are case _in_sensitive. This sniff now accounts for this. #707
• :bug: Various bugs in the PHPCompatibility.Syntax.ForbiddenCallTimePassByReference sniff #723:
  • Closures called via a variable will now also be examined. (false negative)
  • References within arrays/closures passed as function call parameters would incorrectly trigger an error. (false positive)
• :green_heart: Compatibility with PHPUnit 7.2. #712

Credits

Thanks go out to Jonathan Champ for his contribution to this version. :clap:

Important changes

The repository has moved

As of July 13 2018, the PHPCompatibility repository has moved from the personal account of Wim Godden wimg to its own organization PHPCompatibility. Composer users are advised to update their composer.json. The dependency is now called phpcompatibility/php-compatibility.

Framework/CMS specific PHPCompatibility rulesets

Within this new organization, hosting will be offered for framework/CMS specific PHPCompatibility rulesets.

The first two such repositories have been created and are now available for use:

• PHPCompatibilityJoomla GitHub | Packagist
• PHPCompatibilityWP GitHub | Packagist

If you want to make sure you have all PHPCompatibility rulesets available at any time, you can use the PHPCompatibilityAll package GitHub | Packagist.

For more information, see the Readme and Contributing guidelines.

Changes expected in PHPCompatibility 9.0.0

The next version of PHPCompatibility will include a major directory layout restructuring which means that the sniff codes of all sniffs will change.

In this same release, support for PHP_CodeSniffer 1.5.x will be dropped. The new minimum supported PHPCS version will be 2.3.0.

For more information about these upcoming changes, please read the announcement.

The 9.0.0 release is expected to be ready later this summer.

See all related issues and PRs in the 8.2.0 milestone.

Added

• :star2: New ArgumentFunctionsUsage sniff to detect usage of the func_get_args(), func_get_arg() and func_num_args() functions and the changes regarding these functions introduced in PHP 5.3. #596. Fixes #372.
• :star2: New DiscouragedSwitchContinue sniff to detect continue targetting a switch control structure for which E_WARNINGS will be thrown as of PHP 7.3. #687
• :star2: New NewClassMemberAccess sniff to detect class member access on instantiation as added in PHP 5.4 and class member access on cloning as added in PHP 7.0. #619. Fixes #53.
• :star2: New NewConstantScalarExpressions sniff to detect PHP 5.6 scalar expression in contexts where PHP previously only allowed static values. #617. Fixes #399.
• :star2: New NewGeneratorReturn sniff to detect return statements within generators as introduced in PHP 7.0. #618
• :star2: New PCRENewModifiers sniff to initially detect the new J regex modifier as introduced in PHP 7.2. #600. Fixes #556.
• :star2: New ReservedFunctionNames sniff to report on double underscore prefixed functions and methods. This was previously reported via an upstream sniff. #581
• :star2: New NewTrailingComma sniff to detect trailing comma's in function calls, method calls, isset() and unset() as will be introduced in PHP 7.3. #632
• :star2: New Upgrade/LowPHPCS sniff to give users of old PHP_CodeSniffer versions advance warning when support will be dropped in the near future. #693
• :star: NewClasses sniff: check for some 40+ additional PHP native classes added in various PHP versions. #573
• :star: NewClosure sniff: check for usage of self/parent/static:: being used within closures, support for which was only added in PHP 5.4. #669. Fixes #668.
• :star: NewConstants sniff: recognize constants added by the PHP 5.5+ password extension. #626
• :star: NewFunctionParameters sniff: recognize a number of additional function parameters added in PHP 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2. #602
• :star: NewFunctions sniff: recognize the PHP 5.1 SPL extension functions, the PHP 5.1.1 hash_hmac() function, the PHP 5.6 pg_lo_truncate() function, more PHP 7.2 Sodium functions and the new PHP 7.3 is_countable() function. #606, #625, #640, #651
• :star: NewHashAlgorithms sniff: recognize the new hash algorithms which were added in PHP 7.1. #599
• :star: NewInterfaces sniff: check for the PHP 5.0 Reflector interface. #572
• :star: OptionalRequiredFunctionParameters sniff: detect missing $salt parameter in calls to the crypt() function (PHP 5.6+). #605
• :star: RequiredOptionalFunctionParameters sniff: recognize that the $varname parameter of getenv() and the $scale parameter of bcscale() have become optional as of PHP 7.1 and 7.3 respectively. #598, #612
• :star: New AbstractFunctionCallParameterSniff to be used as a basis for sniffs examining function call parameters. #636
• :star: New getReturnTypeHintName() utility method to the PHPCompatibility\Sniff class. #578, #642
• :star: New isNumber(), isPositiveNumber() and isNegativeNumber() utility methods to the PHPCompatibility\Sniff class. #610, #650
• :star: New isShortList() utility method to the PHPCompatibility\Sniff class. #635
• :star: New getCommandLineData() method to the PHPCompatibility\PHPCSHelper class to provide PHPCS cross-version compatible access to command line info at run time. #693
• :star: Duplicate of upstream findEndOfStatement() method to the PHPCompatibility\PHPCSHelper class to allow for PHPCS cross-version usage of that method. #614
• :umbrella: additional unit test to confirm that the PHPCompatibility\Sniff::isUseOfGlobalConstant() method handles multi-constant declarations correctly. #587
• :umbrella: additional unit tests to confirm that the PHPCompatibility\Sniff::isClassProperty() method handles multi-property declarations correctly. #583
• :books: Readme & Contributing: add information about the framework/CMS specific rulesets. Related PRs: #615, #624, #648, #674, #685, #694. Related to issue #530.
• :books: Readme: information about the PHPCS 3.3.0 change which allows for a testVersion in a custom ruleset to be overruled by the command-line. #607

Changed

• :books: Adjusted references to the old repository location throughout the codebase to reflect the move to a GitHub organization. #689 This repository will now live in https://github.com/PHPCompatibility/PHPCompatibility and the Packagist reference will now be phpcompatibility/php-compatibility.
• :white_check_mark: The getReturnTypeHintToken() utility method has been made compatible with the changes in the PHPCS tokenizer which were introduced in PHP_CodeSniffer 3.3.0. #642. Fixes #639.
• :pushpin: ConstantArrayUsingConst: improved handling of multi-constant declarations. #593
• :pushpin: NewHeredocInitialize: improved handling of constant declarations using the const keyword. The sniff will now also report on multi-declarations for variables, constants and class properties and on using heredoc as a function parameter default. #641
• :pushpin: ForbiddenEmptyListAssignment: this sniff will now also report on empty list assignments when the PHP 7.1 short list syntax is used. #653
• :pushpin: The ForbiddenNegativeBitshift sniff would previously only report on "bitshift right". As of this version, "bitshift left" and bitshift assignments will also be recognized. #614
• :pushpin: The NewClasses and NewInterfaces sniffs will now also report on new classes/interfaces when used as return type declarations. #578
• :pushpin: The NewScalarTypeDeclarations sniff will now recognize parent as a valid type declaration. The sniff will now also throw an error about using self and parent when PHP < 5.2 needs to be supported as PHP 5.1 and lower would presume these to be class names instead of keywords. #595
• :pushpin: The PregReplaceEModifier sniff - and the PCRENewModifiers sniff by extension - will now correctly examine and report on modifiers in regexes passed via calls to preg_replace_callback_array(). #600, #636
• :pushpin: getReturnTypeHintToken() utility method: improved support for interface methods and abstract function declarations. #652
• :pushpin: The findExtendedClassName(), findImplementedInterfaceNames(), getMethodParameters() utility methods which are duplicates of upstream PHPCS methods, have been moved from the PHPCompatibility\Sniff class to the PHPCompatibility\PHPCSHelper class and have become static methods. #613
• :white_check_mark: getReturnTypeHintToken() utility method: align returned $stackPtr with native PHPCS behaviour by returning the last token of the type declaration. #575
• :white_check_mark: PHPCS cross-version compatibility: sync getMethodParameters() method with improved upstream version. #643
• :pencil2: The MbstringReplaceEModifier, PregReplaceEModifier and the PregReplaceEModifier sniffs now extend the new AbstractFunctionCallParameterSniff class. This should yield more accurate results when checking whether one of the target PHP functions was called. #636
• :pencil2: DeprecatedNewReference sniff: minor change to the error text and code - was Forbidden, now Removed -. Custom rulesets which explicitly excluded this error code will need to be updated. #594
• :pencil2: NewScalarTypeDeclarations sniff: minor change to the error message text.#644
• :umbrella: The unit test framework now allows for sniffs in categories other than PHP. #634
• :umbrella: Boyscouting: fixed up some (non-relevant) parse errors in a unit test case file. #576
• :green_heart: Travis: build tests are now also being run against the lowest supported PHPCS 3.x version. Previously only the highest supported PHPCS 3.x version was tested against. #633
• :books: Readme: Improved Composer install instructions. #690
• :books: Minor documentation fixes. #672
• :wrench: Minor performance optimizations and code simplifications. #592, #630, #671
• :wrench: Composer: Various improvements, including improved information about the suggested packages, suggesting roave/security-advisories, allowing for PHPUnit 7.x. #604, #616, #622, #646
• :wrench: Various Travis build script improvements, including tweaks for faster build time, validation of the composer.json file, validation of the framework specific rulesets. #570, #571, #579, #621, #631
• :wrench: Build/PHPCS: made some more CS conventions explicit and start using PHPCS 3.x options for the PHPCompatibility native ruleset. #586, #667, #673
• :wrench: Some code style clean up and start using the new inline PHPCS 3.2+ annotations where applicable. #586, #591, #620, #673

Removed

• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility no longer explicitly supports PHP_CodeSniffer 2.2.0. #687, #690
• :no_entry_sign: The PHPCompatibility ruleset no longer includes the PHPCS native Generic.NamingConventions.CamelCapsFunctionName. Double underscore prefixed function names are now being reported on by a new dedicated sniff. #581
• :no_entry_sign: PHPCompatibility no longer explicitly supports HHVM and builds are no longer tested against HHVM. For now, running PHPCompatibility on HHVM to test PHP code may still work for a little while, but HHVM has announced they are dropping PHP support. #623. Fixes #603.
• :books: Readme: badges from services which are no longer supported or inaccurate. #609, #628

Fixed

• :bug: Previously, the PHPCS native Generic.NamingConventions.CamelCapsFunctionName sniff was included in PHPCompatibility. Some error codes of this sniff were excluded, as well as some error messages changed (via the ruleset). If/when PHPCompatibility would be used in combination with a code style-type ruleset, this could inadvertently lead to underreporting of issues which the CS-type ruleset intends to have reported - i.e. the error codes excluded by PHPCompatibility -. This has now been fixed. #581
• :bug: The ForbiddenNegativeBitshift sniff would incorrectly throw an error when a bitshift was based on a calculation which included a negative number, but would not necessarily result in a negative number. #614. Fixes #294, #466.
• :bug: The NewClosure sniff would report the same issue twice when the issue was encountered in a nested closure. #669
• :bug: The NewKeywords sniff would underreport on non-lowercase keywords. #627
• :bug: The NewKeywords sniff would incorrectly report on the use of class constants and class properties using the same name as a keyword. #627
• :bug: The NewNullableTypes sniff would potentially underreport when comments where interspersed in the (return) type declarations. #577
• :bug: The Sniff::getFunctionCallParameters() utility method would in rare cases return incorrect results when it encountered a closure as a parameter. #682
• :bug: The Sniff::getReturnTypeHintToken() utility method would not always return a $stackPtr. #645
• :bug: Minor miscellanous other bugfixes. #670
• :umbrella: PHPCompatibility\Tests\BaseClass\MethodTestFrame::getTargetToken() could potentially not find the correct token to run a test against. #588

Credits

Thanks go out to Michael Babker and Juliette Reinders Folmer for their contributions to this version. :clap:

See all related issues and PRs in the 8.1.0 milestone.

Added

• :star2: New NewConstants and RemovedConstants sniffs to detect usage of new/removed PHP constants for all PHP versions from PHP 5 up. #526, #551, #566. Fixes #263.
• :star2: New MagicAutoloadDeprecation sniff to detect deprecated __autoload() functions as deprecated in PHP 7.2. #540
• :star2: New OptionalRequiredFunctionParameter sniff to check for missing function call parameters which were required and only became optional in a later PHP version. #524
• :star2: New DynamicAccessToStatic sniff to detect dynamic access to static methods and properties, as well as class constants, prior to PHP 5.3. #535. Fixes #534.
• :star: DeprecatedFunctions sniff: recognize yet more PHP 7.2 deprecated functions. #561, #566
• :star: DeprecatedIniDirectives sniff: recognize the last of the PHP 7.2 deprecated ini directives. #566, #567
• :star: NewFunctions : detection of all new PHP 7.2 functions added. #522, #545, #551, #565
• :star: RemovedExtensions : report on usage of the mcrypt extension which has been removed in PHP 7.2. #566
• :star: RemovedGlobalVariables : detection of the use of $php_errormsg with track_errors which has been deprecated in PHP 7.2. #528
• :books: Documentation : added reporting usage instructions. #533, #552

Changed

• :pushpin: NewClosures : downgraded "$this found in closure outside class" to warning. #536. Fixes #527.
• :pushpin: ForbiddenGlobalVariableVariable : the sniff will now throw an error for each variable in a global statement which is no longer supported and show the variable found to make it easier to fix this. Previously only one error would be thrown per global statement. #564
• :pushpin: ForbiddenGlobalVariableVariable : the sniff will now throw warnings for non-bare variables used in a global statement as those are discouraged since PHP 7.0. #564
• :rewind: NewLanguageConstructs : updated the version number for T_COALESCE_EQUAL. #523
• :pencil2: Sniff::getTestVersion() : simplified regex logic. #520
• :green_heart: Travis : build tests are now being run against PHP 7.2 as well. #511
• :wrench: Improved check for superfluous whitespaces in files. #542
• :wrench: Build/PHPCS : stabilized the exclude patterns. #529
• :wrench: Build/PHPCS : added array indentation check. #538
• :white_check_mark: PHPCS cross-version compatibility : sync FindExtendedClassname() method with upstream. #507
• :wrench: The minimum version for the recommended DealerDirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer Composer plugin has been upped to 0.4.3. #548

Fixed

• :bug: ForbiddenCallTimePassByReference : a false positive was being thrown when a global constant was followed by a bitwise and. #562. Fixes #39.
• :bug: ForbiddenGlobalVariableVariable : the sniff was overzealous and would also report on global in combination with variable variables which are still supported. #564. Fixes #537.
• :bug: ForbiddenGlobalVariableVariable : variables interspersed with whitespace and/or comments were not being reported. #564
• :rewind: ForbiddenNamesAsInvokedFunctions : improved recognition of function invocations using forbidden words and prevent warnings for keywords which are no longer forbidden as method names in PHP 7.0+. #516. Fixes #515
• :bug: VariableVariables : variables interspersed with whitespace and/or comments were not being reported. #563
• :umbrella: Fixed some unintentional syntax errors in test files. #539
• :umbrella: Tests : fixed case numbering error. #525
• :books: Tests : added missing test skip explanation. #521
• :wrench: Fixed PHPCS whitespaces. #543
• :wrench: Fixed code test coverage verification. #550. Fixes #549.

Credits

Thanks go out to Juliette Reinders Folmer and Jonathan Van Belle for their contributions to this version. :clap:

See all related issues and PRs in the 8.0.1 milestone.

Added

• :star2: New DeprecatedTypeCasts sniff to detect deprecated and removed type casts, such as the (unset) type cast as deprecated in PHP 7.2. #498
• :star2: New NewTypeCasts sniff to detect type casts not present in older PHP versions such as the (binary) type cast as added in PHP 5.2.1. #497
• :star: NewGroupUseDeclaration: Detection of PHP 7.2 trailing comma's in group use statements. #504
• :star: DeprecatedFunctions sniff: recognize some more PHP 7.2 deprecated functions. #501
• :star: DeprecatedIniDirectives sniff: recognize more PHP 7.2 deprecated ini directives. #500
• :star: ForbiddenNames sniff: recognize object as a forbidden keyword since PHP 7.2. #499
• :star: NewReturnTypeDeclarations sniff: recognize generic parent, PHP 7.1 iterable and PHP 7.2 object return type declarations. #505, #499
• :star: NewScalarTypeDeclarations sniff: recognize PHP 7.2 object type declarion. #499

Changed

:pencil2: Improved clarity of the deprecated functions alternative in the error message. #502

Fixed

:fire_engine: Temporary hotfix for installed_paths (pending upstream fix.) #503

Credits

Thanks go out to Juliette Reinders Folmer for her contributions to this version. :clap:

Version 8.0.0 - 2017-08-03

IMPORTANT: This release contains a breaking change. Please read the below information carefully before upgrading!

The directory layout of the PHPCompatibility standard has been changed for improved compatibility with Composer. This means that the PHPCompatibility standard no longer extends from the root directory of the repository, but now lives in its own subdirectory /PHPCompatibility.

This release also bring compatibility with PHPCS 3.x to the PHPCompatibility standard.

There are two things you will need to be aware of:

• The path to the PHPCompatibility standard has changed.
• If you intend to upgrade to PHPCS 3.x, the path to the phpcs script has changed (upstream change).

Please follow the below upgrade instructions carefully. This should be a one-time only action.

Upgrade instructions

Before upgrading

If you had previously made accommodations for the old directory layout, you should remove any such "hacks" (meant in the kindest of ways) now.

By this we mean: symlinks for the PHPCompatibility install to the PHP_CodeSniffer/CodeSniffer/Standards directory, scripts to move the sniffs files to the PHPCS directory, scripts which made symlinks etc.

So, please remove those first.

Side-note:

If you had previously forked this repository to solve this issue, please consider reverting your fork to the official version or removing it all together.

Upgrading: re-registering PHPCompatibility with PHP CodeSniffer

External PHP CodeSniffer standards need to be registered with PHP CodeSniffer. You have probably done this the first time you used PHPCompatibility or have a script or Composer plugin in place to do this for you.

As the directory layout of PHPCompatibility has changed, the path previously registered with PHP CodeSniffer will no longer work and running phpcs -i will not list PHPCompatibility as one of the registered standards.

Using a Composer plugin

If you use Composer, we recommend you use a Composer plugin to sort this out. In previous install instructions we recommended the SimplyAdmin plugin for this. This plugin has since been abandoned. We now recommend the DealerDirect plugin.

composer remove --dev simplyadmire/composer-plugins
composer require --dev dealerdirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer:^0.4.1
composer install
composer update wimg/php-compatibility squizlabs/php_codesniffer
vendor/bin/phpcs -i

If all went well, you should now see PHPCompatibility listed again in the list of installed standards.

Manually re-registering PHPCompatibility

1. First run phpcs --config-show to check which path(s) are currently registered with PHP CodeSniffer for external standards.

2. Check in the below table what the new path for PHPCompatibility will be - the path should point to the root directory of your PHPCompatibility install (not to the sub-directory of the same name):

   Install type	Old path	New path
   Composer	vendor/wimg	vendor/wimg/php-compatibility
   Unzipped release to arbitrary directory	path/to/dir/abovePHPCompatibility	path/to/dir/abovePHPCompatibility/PHPCompatibility
   Git checkout	path/to/dir/abovePHPCompatibility	path/to/dir/abovePHPCompatibility/PHPCompatibility
   PEAR	If the old install instruction has been followed, not registered.	path/to/PHPCompatibility

   Side-note:

   If you used the old install instructions for a PEAR install, i.e. checking out the latest release to the PHP/CodeSniffer/Standards/PHPCompatibility directory, and you intend to upgrade to PHP CodeSniffer 3.x, it is recommended you move the PHPCompatibility folder out of the PEAR directory now, as the layout of the PHPCS directory has changed with PHPCS 3.x and you may otherwise lose your PHPCompatibility install when you upgrade PHP CodeSniffer via PEAR.

3. There are two ways in which you can register the new installed_paths value with PHP CodeSniffer. Choose your preferred method:

   • Run phpcs --config-set installed_paths ... and include all previously installed paths including the adjusted path for the PHPCompatibility standard.

     For example, if the previous value of installed_paths was

     /path/to/MyStandard,/path/to/dir/abovePHPCompatibility

     you should now set it using

     phpcs --config-set installed_paths /path/to/MyStandard,/path/to/PHPCompatibility

   • If you use a custom ruleset in combination with PHPCS 2.6.0 or higher, you can pass the value to PHPCS from your custom ruleset:

     <config name="installed_paths" value="vendor/wimg/php-compatibility" />
     

4. Run phpcs -i to verify that the PHPCompatibility standard is now listed again in the list of installed standards.

Upgrading to PHPCS 3.x

The path to the phpcs script has changed in PHPCS 3.x which will impact how you call PHPCS.

So, for Composer users, nothing changes. For everyone else, you may want to add the path/to/PHP_CodeSniffer/bin/phpcs path to your PATH environment variable or adjust any scripts - like build scripts - which call PHPCS.

Upgrading a Travis build script

If you run PHPCompatibility against your code as part of your Travis build:

• If you use Composer to install PHP CodeSniffer and PHPCompatibility on the travis image and you've made the above mentioned changes, your build should pass again.
• If you use git clone to install PHP CodeSniffer and PHPCompatibility on the travis image, your build will fail until you make the following changes:
  1. Check which branch of PHPCS is being checked out. If you previously fixed this to a pre-PHPCS 3.x branch or tag, you can now change this (back) to master or a PHPCS 3 tag.
  2. Check to which path PHPCompatibility is being cloned and adjust the path if necessary.
  3. Adjust the phpcs --config-set installed_paths command as described above to point to the root of the cloned PHPCompatibility repo.
  4. If you switched to using PHPCS 3.x, adjust the call to PHPCS.

Changelog for version 8.0.0

See all related issues and PRs in the 8.0 milestone.

Added

• :two_hearts: Support for PHP CodeSniffer 3.x. #482, #481, #480, #488, #489, #495

Changed

• :gift: As of this version PHPCompatibility will use semantic versioning.
• :fire: The directory structure of the repository has changed for better compatibility with installation via Composer. #446. Fixes #102, #107
• :pencil2: The custom functionWhitelist property for the PHPCompatibility.PHP.RemovedExtensions sniff is now only supported in combination with PHP CodeSniffer 2.6.0 or higher (due to an upstream bug which was fixed in PHPCS 2.6.0). #482
• :wrench: Improved the information provided to Composer from the composer.json file. #446, #482, #486
• :wrench: Release archives will no longer contain the unit tests and other typical development files. You can still get these by using Composer with --prefer-source or by checking out a git clone of the repository. #494
• :wrench: A variety of minor improvements to the build process. #485, #486, #487
• :wrench: Some files for use by contributors have been renamed to use .dist extensions or moved for easier access. #478, #479, #483, #493
• :books: The installation instructions in the Readme. #496
• :books: The unit test instructions in the Contributing file. #496
• :books: Improved the example code in the Readme. #490

Removed

• :no_entry_sign: Support for PHP 5.1 and 5.2.

  The sniffs can now only be run on PHP 5.3 or higher in combination with PHPCS 1.5.6 or 2.x and on PHP 5.4 or higher in combination with PHPCS 3.x. #484, #482

Credits

Thanks go out to Gary Jones and Juliette Reinders Folmer for their contributions to this version. :clap:

Added

• :star: The NewKeywords sniff will now also sniff for yield from which was introduced in PHP 7.0. #477. Fixes #476
• :books: The LGPL-3.0 license. #447

Changed

• :rewind: The NewExecutionDirectives sniff will now also report on execution directives when used in combination with PHPCS 2.0.0-2.3.3. #451
• :rewind: The getMethodParameters() utility method will no longer break when used with PHPCS 1.5.x < 1.5.6. This affected a number of sniffs. #452
• :rewind: The inUseScope() utility method will no longer break when used with PHPCS 2.0.0 - 2.2.0. This affected a number of sniffs. #454
• :recycle: Various (minor) refactoring for improved performance and sniff accuracy. #443, #474
• :pencil2: Renamed a test file for consistency. #453
• :wrench: Code style clean up. #429
• :wrench: Prevent Composer installing PHPCS 3.x. PHPCS 3.x is not (yet) supported by the PHPCompatibility standard, but will be in the near future. #444
• :green_heart: The code base will now be checked for consistent code style during build testing. #429
• :green_heart: The sniffs are now also tested against HHVM for consistent results. Note: the sniffs do not contain any HHVM specific checks nor is there any intention to add them at this time. #450
• :books: Made it explicit that - at this moment - PHPCS 3.x is not (yet) supported. #444
• :books: Minor improvements to the Readme. #448, #449, #468
• :books: Minor improvements to the Contributing guidelines. #467

Removed

• :no_entry_sign: The DefaultTimeZoneRequired sniff. This sniff was checking server settings rather than code. #458. Fixes #457
• :no_entry_sign: The NewMagicClassConstant sniff as introduced in v 7.1.4 contained two additional checks for not strictly compatibility related issues. One of these was plainly wrong, the other opinionated. Both have been removed. #442. Fixes #436

Fixed

• :bug: NewClass sniff: was reporting an incorrect introduction version number for a few of the Exception classes. #441. Fixes #440.
• :bug: ForbiddenBreakContinueVariableArguments sniff: was incorrectly reporting an error if the break or continue was followed by a PHP closing tag (breaking out of PHP). #462. Fixes #460
• :bug: ForbiddenGlobalVariableVariable sniff: was incorrectly reporting an error if the global statement was followed by a PHP closing tag (breaking out of PHP). #463.
• :bug: DeprecatedFunctions sniff: was reporting false positives for classes using the same name as a deprecated function. #465. Fixes #464

Credits

Thanks go out to Juliette Reinders Folmer and Mark Clements for their contributions to this version. 👏

Added

• :star2: New CaseSensitiveKeywords sniff to detect use of non-lowercase self, static and parent keywords which could cause compatibility issues pre-PHP 5.5. #382
• :star2: New ConstantArraysUsingConst sniff to detect constants defined using the const keyword being assigned an array value which was not supported prior to PHP 5.6. #397
• :star2: New ForbiddenClosureUseVariableNames sniff to detect PHP 7.1 forbidden variable names in closure use statements. #386. Fixes #374
• :star2: New NewArrayStringDereferencing sniff to detect array and string literal dereferencing as introduced in PHP 5.5. #388
• :star2: New NewHeredocInitialize sniff to detect initialization of static variables and class properties/constants using the heredoc syntax which is supported since PHP 5.3. #391. Fixes #51
• :star2: New NewMagicClassConstant sniff to detect use of the magic ::class constant as introduced in PHP 5.5. #403. Fixes #364.
• :star2: New NewUseConstFunction sniff to detect use statements importing constants and functions as introduced in PHP 5.6. #401
• :star: DeprecatedFunctions sniff: recognize PHP 7.2 deprecated GD functions. #392
• :star: DeprecatedIniDirectives sniff: recognize PHP 7.2 deprecated mbstring.func_overload directive. #377
• :star: NewClasses sniff: check for the PHP 5.1 libXMLError class. #412
• :star: NewClasses sniff: recognize all native PHP Exception classes. #418
• :star: NewClosures sniff: check for closures being declared as static and closures using $this. Both of which was not supported pre-PHP 5.4. #389. Fixes #24.
• :star: NewFunctionParameters sniff: recognize new exclude_disabled parameter for the get_defined_functions() function as introduced in PHP 7.0.15. #375
• :star: NewFunctions sniff: recognize new PHP 7.2 socket related functions. #376
• :star: NewInterfaces sniff: check for some more PHP native interfaces. #411
• :star: New isClassProperty(), isClassConstant() and validDirectScope() utility methods to the PHPCompatibility_Sniff class. #393, #391.
• :star: New getTypeHintsFromFunctionDeclaration() utility method to the PHPCompatibility_Sniff class. #414.
• :umbrella: Unit tests against false positives for the NewMagicMethods sniff. #381
• :umbrella: More unit tests for the getTestVersion() utility method. #405, #430
• :green_heart: The XML of the ruleset will now be validated and checked for consistent code style during the build testing by Travis. #433
• :books: Readme: information about setting installed_paths via a custom ruleset. #407
• :books: Changelog.md file containing a record of notable changes since the first tagged release. #421

Changed

• :pushpin: The ForbiddenNamesAsDeclared sniff will now emit warnings for soft reserved keywords. #406, #370.
• :pushpin: The ForbiddenNames sniff will now allow for the more liberal rules for usage of reserved keywords as of PHP 7.0. #417
• :pushpin: The InternalInterfaces, NewClasses, NewConstVisibility, NewInterfaces, NewMagicMethods, NonStaticMagicMethods and RemovedGlobalVariables sniffs will now also sniff for and correctly report violations in combination with anonymous classes. #378, #383, #393, #394, #395, #396. Fixes #351 and #333.
• :pushpin: The NewClasses and NewInterfaces sniffs will now also report on new classes/interfaces when used as type hints. #414, #416. Fixes #352
• :pushpin: The NewClasses sniff will now also report on Exception classes when used in (multi-)catch statements. #418. Fixes #373.
• :pushpin: The NewScalarTypeDeclarations sniff will now report on new type hints even when the type hint is nullable. #379
• :twisted_rightwards_arrows: The NewNowdoc sniff has been renamed to NewNowdocQuotedHeredoc and will now also check for double quoted heredoc identifiers as introduced in PHP 5.3. #390
• :rewind: The NewClasses sniff will now also report anonymous classes which extend a new sniff when used in combination with PHPCS 2.4.0-2.8.0. #432. Fixes #334.
• :pencil2: NewFunctionParameter sniff: version number precision for two parameters. #384, #428
• :umbrella: Skipping two unit tests for the ForbiddenClosureUseVariable sniff when run on PHPCS 2.5.1 as these cause an infinite loop due to an upstream bug. #408
• :umbrella: Skipping unit tests involving traits in combination with PHP < 5.4 and PHPCS < 2.4.0 as traits are not recognized in those circumstances. #431
• :recycle: Various (minor) refactoring for improved performance and sniff accuracy. #385, #387, #415, #423, #424
• :recycle: Minor simplification of the PHPUnit 6 compatibility layer and other test code. #426, #425
• General housekeeping. #398, #400
• :wrench: Minor tweaks to the Travis build script. #409
• :green_heart: The sniffs are now also tested against PHP nightly for consistent results. #380

Fixed

• :fire: Using unbounded ranges in testVersion resulted in unreported errors when used with sniffs using the supportsBelow() method. This affected the results of approximately half the sniffs. #430
• :bug: The ForbiddenNames sniff would throw false positives for use statements with the final modifier in traits. #402.
• :bug: The ForbiddenNames sniff would fail to report on functions declared to return by reference using a reserved keyword as the function name. #413
• :bug: The ForbiddenNames sniff would only examine the first part of a namespace and not report on reserved keywords used in subsequent parts of a nested namespace. #419
• :bug: The ForbiddenNames sniff would not always correctly report on use statements importing constants or functions using reserved keywords. #420
• :bug: The NewKeywords sniff would sometimes fail to report on the const keyword when used in a class, but not for a class constant. #424
• :green_heart: PHPCS has released version 3.0 and updated the master branch to reflect this. This was causing the builds to fail. #422

Credits

Thanks go out to Juliette Reinders Folmer and Mark Clements for their contributions to this version. :clap:

Several updates for 7.1 (and some for 7.2)

See all related issues and PRs in the 7.1.3 milestone.

Added

• :zap: The testVersion config parameter now allows for specifying unbounded ranges. For example: specifying -5.6 means: check for compatibility with all PHP versions up to and including PHP 5.6; Specifying 7.0- means: check for compatibility with all PHP versions from PHP 7.0 upwards. For more information about setting the testVersion, see Using the compatibility sniffs in the readme.
• :umbrella: Unit test for multi-line short arrays for the ShortArray sniff. #347
• :umbrella: Various additional unit tests against false positives. #345, #369
• :umbrella: Unit tests for the supportsBelow(), supportsAbove() and getTestVersion() utility methods. #363
• :books: Readme: information about installation of the standard using git check-out. #349
• :books: Contributing.md file with information about reporting bugs, requesting features, making pull requests and running the unit tests. #350

Changed

• :pushpin: The ForbiddenFunctionParametersWithSameName, NewScalarTypeDeclarations, ParameterShadowSuperGlobals sniff will now also sniff for and report violations in closures. #331
• :twisted_rightwards_arrows: :rewind: The check for the PHP 5.3 nowdoc structure has been moved from the NewKeywords sniff to a new stand-alone NewNowdoc sniff which will now also recognize this structure when the sniffs are run on PHP 5.2. #335
• :rewind: The ForbiddenNames sniff will now also correctly recognize reserved keywords used in a declared namespace when run on PHP 5.2. #362
• :recycle: Various (minor) refactoring for improved performance and sniff accuracy. #360
• :recycle: The unit tests would previously run each test case file against all PHPCompatibility sniffs. Now, they will only be tested against the sniff which the test case file is intended to test. This allows for more test cases to be tested, more precise testing in combination with testVersion settings and makes the unit tests run ~6 x faster. Relevant additional unit tests have been added and others adjusted. #369
• :recycle: Refactoring/tidying up of some unit test code. #343, #345, #356, #355, #359
• General housekeeping. #346
• :books: Readme: Clarify minimum requirements and influence on the results. #348

Removed

• :twisted_rightwards_arrows: Removed the LongArrays sniff. The checks it contained have been moved into the RemovedGlobalVariables sniff. Both sniffs essentially did the same thing, just for different PHP native superglobals. #354

Fixed

• :bug: The PregReplaceEModifier sniff would throw a false positive if a quote character was used as the regex delimiter. #357
• :bug: RemovedGlobalVariables sniff would report false positives for class properties shadowing the removed $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA variables. #354.
• :bug: The getFQClassNameFromNewToken() utility function could go into an infinite loop causing PHP to run out of memory when examining unfinished code (examination during live coding). #338, #342
• :bug: The determineNamespace() utility method would in certain cases not break out a loop. #358
• :wrench: Travis script: Minor tweak for PHP 5.2 compatibility. #341
• :wrench: The unit test suite is now also compatible with PHPUnit 6. #365
• :books: Readme: Typo in the composer instructions. #344

Credits

Thanks go out to Arthur Edamov, Juliette Reinders Folmer, Mark Clements and Tadas Juozapaitis for their contributions to this version. :clap:

Several updates for 7.1 (and some for 7.2)

See all related issues and PRs in the 7.1.2 milestone.

Added

• :star2: New VariableVariables sniff to detect variables variables for which the behaviour has changed in PHP 7.0. #310 Fixes #309.
• :star: The NewReturnTypeDeclarations sniff will now also sniff for non-scalar return type declarations, i.e. array, callable, self or a class name. #323
• :star: The NewLanguageConstructs sniff will now also sniff for the null coalesce equal operator ??=. This operator is slated to be introduced in PHP 7.2 and PHPCS already accounts for it. #340
• :star: New getReturnTypeHintToken() utility method to the PHPCompatibility_Sniff class to retrieve return type hints from function declarations in a cross-PHPCS-version compatible way. #323.
• :star: New stripVariables() utility method to the PHPCompatibility_Sniff class to strip variables from interpolated text strings. #341.
• :umbrella: Additional unit tests covering previously uncovered code. #308

Changed

• :pushpin: The MbstringReplaceEModifier, PregReplaceEModifier and NewExecutionDirectives sniffs will now also correctly interpret double quoted text strings with interpolated variables. #341, #324.
• :pushpin: The NewNullableTypes sniff will now also report on nullable (return) type hints when used with closures. #323
• :pushpin: The NewReturnTypeDeclarations sniff will now also report on return type hints when used with closures. #323
• :pushpin: Allow for anonymous classes in the inClassScope() utility method. #315
• :pushpin: The function call parameter related utility functions can now also be used to get the individual items from an array declaration. #300
• :twisted_rightwards_arrows: The NewScalarReturnTypeDeclarations sniff has been renamed to NewReturnTypeDeclarations. #323
• :rewind: The ForbiddenNames sniff will now also correctly ignore anonymous classes when used in combination with PHPCS < 2.3.4. #319
• :rewind: The NewAnonymousClasses sniff will now correctly recognize and report on anonymous classes when used in combination with PHPCS < 2.5.2. #325
• :rewind: The NewGroupUseDeclarations sniff will now correctly recognize and report on group use statements when used in combination with PHPCS < 2.6.0. #320
• :rewind: The NewNullableTypes sniff will now correctly recognize and report on nullable return types when used in combination with PHPCS < 2.6.0. #323
• :rewind: The NewReturnTypeDeclarations sniff will now correctly recognize and report on new return types when used in combination with PHPCS < 2.6.0. #323
• :recycle: Various (minor) refactoring for improved performance and sniff accuracy. #317
• :recycle: Defer to upstream hasCondition() utility method where appropriate. #315
• :recycle: Minor refactoring of some unit test code. #304, #303, #318
• :wrench: All unit tests now have appropriate [@group](https://github.com/group) annotations allowing for quicker/easier testing of a select group of tests/sniffs. #305
• :wrench: All unit tests now have appropriate [@covers](https://github.com/covers) annotations to improve code coverage reporting and remove bleed through of accidental coverage. #307
• :wrench: Minor tweaks to the travis script. #322
• :green_heart: The PHPCompatibility code base itself will now be checked for cross-version compatibility during build testing. #322

Fixed

• :bug: The ConstantArraysUsingDefine sniff would throw false positives if the value of the define() was retrieved via a function call and an array parameter was passed. #327
• :bug: The ForbiddenCallTimePassByReference sniff would throw false positives on assign by reference within function calls or conditions. #302 Fixes the last two cases reported in #68
• :bug: The ForbiddenGlobalVariableVariableSniff sniff would only examine the first variable in a global ... statement causing unreported issues if subsequent variables were variable variables. #316
• :bug: The NewKeywords sniff would throw a false positive for the const keyword when encountered in an interface. #312
• :bug: The NewNullableTypes sniff would not report on nullable return types for namespaced classnames used as a type hint. #323
• :bug: The PregReplaceEModifier sniff would always consider the first parameter passed as a single regex, while it could also be an array of regexes. This led to false positives and potentially unreported use of the e modifier when an array of regexes was passed. #300
• :bug: The PregReplaceEModifier sniff could misidentify the regex delimiter when the regex to be examined was concatenated together from various text strings taken from a compound parameter leading to false positives. #300
• :white_check_mark: Compatibility with PHPCS 2.7.x. Deal with changed behaviour of the upstream PHP tokenizer and utility function(s). #313, #323, #326, #340

Credits

Thanks go out to Juliette Reinders Folmer for her contributions to this version. :clap:

All deprecations, new features, etc. for PHP 7.1

See all related issues and PRs in the 7.1.1 milestone.

Added

• :star: ForbiddenNamesAsDeclared sniff: detection of the PHP 7.1 iterable and void reserved keywords when used to name classes, interfaces or traits. #298

Fixed

• :bug: The ForbiddenNamesAsInvokedFunctions sniff would incorrectly throw an error if the clone keyword was used with parenthesis. #299. Fixes #284

Credits

Thanks go out to Juliette Reinders Folmer for her contributions to this version. :clap:

All deprecations, new features, etc. for PHP 7.1

See all related issues and PRs in the 7.1.0 milestone.

Added

• :star: New stringToErrorCode(), arrayKeysToLowercase() and addMessage() utility methods to the PHPCompatibility_Sniff class. #291.

Changed

• :pushpin: All sniff error messages now have modular error codes allowing for selectively disabling individual checks - and even selectively disabling individual sniff for specific files - without disabling the complete sniff. #291
• :pencil2: Minor changes to some of the error message texts for consistency across sniffs. #291
• :recycle: Refactored the complex version sniffs to reduce code duplication. #291
• :recycle: Miscellaneous other refactoring for improved performance and sniff accuracy. #291
• :umbrella: The unit tests for the RemovedExtensions sniff now verify that the correct alternative extension is being suggested. #291

Credits

Thanks go out to Juliette Reinders Folmer for her contributions to this version. :clap:

PHP 7.0 Sniffs - update 2016-10-31 - Spooky !

See all related issues and PRs in the 7.0.8 milestone.

Added

• :star2: New ForbiddenNamesAsDeclared sniff: detection of the other reserved keywords which are reserved as of PHP 7.0 (or higher). #287. Fixes #115. These were previously sniffed for by the ForbiddenNames and ForbiddenNamesAsInvokedFunctions sniffs causing false positives as the rules for their reservation are different from the rules for "normal" reserved keywords.
• :star: New inUseScope() utility method to the PHPCompatibility_Sniff class which handles PHPCS cross-version compatibility when determining the scope of a use statement. #271.
• :umbrella: More unit tests for the ForbiddenNames sniff. #271.

Changed

• :pushpin: Deprecated functionality should throw a warning. Removed or otherwise unavailable functionality should throw an error. This distinction was previously not consistently applied everywhere. #286 This change affects the following sniffs:
  • DeprecatedPHP4StyleConstructors will now throw a warning instead of an error for deprecated PHP4 style class constructors.
  • ForbiddenCallTimePassByReference will now throw a warning if the testVersion is 5.3 and an error if the testVersion if 5.4 or higher.
  • MbstringReplaceEModifier will now throw a warning instead of an error for usage of the deprecated e modifier.
  • PregReplaceEModifier will now throw a warning if the testVersion is 5.5 or 5.6 and an error if the testVersion if 7.0 or higher. Fixes #290.
  • TernaryOperators will now throw an error when the testVersion < 5.3 and the middle part has been omitted.
  • ValidIntegers will now throw a warning when an invalid binary integer is detected.
• :pencil2: DeprecatedFunctions and DeprecatedIniDirectives sniffs: minor change in the sniff error message text. Use "removed" rather than the ominous "forbidden". #285 Also updated relevant internal variable names and documentation to match.

Fixed

• :bug: ForbiddenNames sniff would throw false positives for use statements which changed the visibility of methods in traits. #271.
• :bug: ForbiddenNames sniff would not report reserved keywords when used in combination with use function or use const. #271.
• :bug: ForbiddenNames sniff would potentially - unintentionally - skip over tokens, thereby - potentially - not reporting all errors. #271.
• :wrench: Composer config: prefer-stable should be a root element of the json file. Fixes #277.

Credits

Thanks go out to Juliette Reinders Folmer for her contributions to this version. :clap:

PHP 7.0 Sniffs - update 2016-10-20

See all related issues and PRs in the 7.0.7 milestone.

Added

• :star2: New ForbiddenBreakContinueOutsideLoop sniff: verify that break/continue is not used outside of a loop structure. This will cause fatal errors since PHP 7.0. #278. Fixes #275
• :star2: New NewConstVisibility sniff: detect visibility indicators for class and interface constants as introduced in PHP 7.1. #280. Fixes #249
• :star2: New NewHashAlgorithms sniff to check used hash algorithms against the PHP version in which they were introduced. #242
• :star2: New NewMultiCatch sniff: detect catch statements catching multiple Exceptions as introduced in PHP 7.1. #281. Fixes #251
• :star2: New NewNullableTypes sniff: detect nullable parameter and return type hints (only supported in PHPCS >= 2.3.4) as introduced in PHP 7.1. #282. Fixes #247
• :star: DeprecatedIniDirectives sniff: recognize PHP 7.1 removed session ini directives. #256
• :star: NewFunctions sniff: recognize new socket_export_stream() function as introduced in PHP 7.0.7. #264
• :star: NewFunctions sniff: recognize new curl_...(), is_iterable(), pcntl_async_signals(), session_create_id(), session_gc() functions as introduced in PHP 7.1. #273
• :star: NewFunctionParameters sniff: recognize new OpenSSL function parameters as introduced in PHP 7.1. #258
• :star: NewIniDirectives sniff: recognize new session ini directives as introduced in PHP 7.1. #259
• :star: NewScalarReturnTypeDeclarations sniff: recognize PHP 7.1 void return type hint. #250
• :star: NewScalarTypeDeclarations sniff: recognize PHP 7.1 iterable type hint. #255
• :star: Recognize the PHP 7.1 deprecated mcrypt functionality in the RemovedExtensions, DeprecatedFunctions and DeprecatedIniDirectives sniffs. #257

Changed

• :pushpin: LongArrays sniff used to only throw warnings. It will now throw errors for PHP versions in which the long superglobals have been removed. #270
• :pushpin: The NewIniDirectives sniff used to always throw an warning. Now it will throw an error when a new ini directive is used in combination with ini_set(). #246.
• :pushpin: RemovedHashAlgorithms sniff: also recognize removed algorithms when used with the PHP 5.5+ hash_pbkdf2() function. #240
• :pushpin: Properly recognize nullable type hints in the getMethodParameters() utility method. #282
• :pencil2: DeprecatedPHP4StyleConstructors sniff: minor error message text fix. #236
• :pencil2: NewIniDirectives sniff: improved precision for the introduction version numbers being reported. #246
• :recycle: Various (minor) refactoring for improved performance and sniff accuracy. #238, #244, #240, #276
• :umbrella: Re-activate the unit tests for the NewScalarReturnTypeDeclarations sniff. #250

Fixed

• :bug: The DeprecatedPHP4StyleConstructors sniff would not report errors when the case of the class name and the PHP4 constructor function name did not match. #236
• :bug: LongArrays sniff would report false positives for class properties shadowing removed PHP superglobals. #270. Fixes #268.
• :bug: The NewClasses sniff would not report errors when the case of the class name used and "official" class name did not match. #237
• :bug: The NewIniDirectives sniff would report violations against the PHP version in which the ini directive was introduced. This should be the version below it. #246
• :bug: PregReplaceEModifier sniff would report false positives for compound regex parameters with different quote types. #266. Fixes #265.
• :bug: RemovedGlobalVariables sniff would report false positives for lowercase/mixed cased variables shadowing superglobals. #245.
• :bug: The RemovedHashAlgorithms sniff would not report errors when the case of the hash function name used and "official" class name did not match. #240
• :bug: The ShortArray sniff would report all violations on the line of the PHP open tag, not on the lines of the short array open/close tags. #238

Credits

Thanks go out to Juliette Reinders Folmer for her contributions to this version. :clap:

PHP 7.0 Sniffs - update 2016-09-23

See all related issues and PRs in the 7.0.6 milestone.

Added

• :star: New stripQuotes() utility method in the PHPCompatibility_Sniff base class to strip quotes which surround text strings in a consistent manner. #224
• :books: Readme: Add PHP Version Support section. #225

Changed

• :pushpin: The ForbiddenCallTimePassByReference sniff will now also report the deprecation as of PHP 5.3, not just its removal as of PHP 5.4. #203
• :pushpin: The NewFunctionArrayDereferencing sniff will now also check method calls for array dereferencing, not just function calls. #229. Fixes #227.
• :pencil2: The NewExecutionDirectives sniff will now throw warnings instead of errors for invalid values encountered in execution directives. #223
• :pencil2: Minor miscellaneous fixes. #231
• :recycle: Various (minor) refactoring for improved performance and sniff accuracy. #219, #203
• :recycle: Defer to upstream findImplementedInterfaceNames() utility method when it exists. #222
• :wrench: Exclude the test files from analysis by Scrutinizer CI. #230

Removed

• :no_entry_sign: Some redundant code. #232

Fixed

• :bug: The EmptyNonVariable sniff would throw false positives for variable variables and for array access with a (partially) variable array index. #212. Fixes #210.
• :bug: The NewFunctionArrayDereferencing sniff would throw false positives for lines of code containing both a function call as well as square brackets, even when they were unrelated. #228. Fixes #226.
• :bug: ParameterShadowSuperGlobals sniff would report false positives for lowercase/mixed cased variables shadowing superglobals. #218. Fixes #214.
• :bug: The determineNamespace() utility method now accounts properly for namespaces within scoped declare() statements. #221
• :books: Readme: Logo alignment in the Credits section. #233

Credits

Thanks go out to Jason Stallings, Juliette Reinders Folmer and Mark Clements for their contributions to this version. :clap:

PHP 7.0 Sniffs - update 2016-09-08

See all related issues and PRs in the 7.0.5 milestone.

Added

• :star2: New MbstringReplaceEModifier sniff to detect the use of the PHP 7.1 deprecated e modifier in Mbstring regex functions. #202
• :star: The ForbiddenBreakContinueVariableArguments sniff will now also report on break 0/continue 0 which is not allowed since PHP 5.4. #209
• :star: New getFunctionCallParameters(), getFunctionCallParameter() utility methods in the PHPCompatibility_Sniff base class. #170
• :star: New tokenHasScope() utility method in the PHPCompatibility_Sniff base class. #189
• :umbrella: Unit test for goto and callable detection and some other miscellanous extra unit tests for the NewKeywords sniff. #189
• :books: Readme: Information for sniff developers about running unit tests for other sniff libraries using the PHPCS native test framework without running into conflicts with the PHPCompatibility specific unit test framework. #217

Changed

• :pushpin: The ForbiddenNames sniff will now also check interface declarations for usage of reserved keywords. #200
• :pushpin: PregReplaceEModifier sniff: improved handling of regexes build up of a combination of variables, function calls and/or text strings. #201
• :rewind: The NewKeywords sniff will now also correctly recognize new keywords when used in combination with older PHPCS versions and/or run on older PHP versions. #189
• :pencil2: PregReplaceEModifier sniff: minor improvement to the error message text. #201
• :recycle: Various (minor) refactoring for improved performance and sniff accuracy. #170, #188, #189, #199, #200, #201, #208
• :wrench: The unit tests for the utility methods have been moved to their own subdirectory within Tests. #215
• :green_heart: The sniffs are now also tested against PHP 7.1 for consistent results. #216

Removed

• :no_entry_sign: Some redundant code. 26d0b6 and 841616

Fixed

• :bug: ConstantArraysUsingDefine sniff: the version check logic was reversed causing the error not to be reported in certain circumstances. #199
• :bug: The DeprecatedIniDirectives and NewIniDirectives sniffs could potentially trigger on the ini value instead of the ini directive name. #170
• :bug: ForbiddenNames sniff: Reserved keywords when used as the name of a constant declared using define() would always be reported independently of the testVersion set. #200
• :bug: PregReplaceEModifier sniff would not report errors when the function name used was not in lowercase. #201
• :bug: TernaryOperators sniff: the version check logic was reversed causing the error not to be reported in certain circumstances. #188
• :bug: The getFQClassNameFromNewToken() and getFQClassNameFromDoubleColonToken() utility methods would get confused when the class name was a variable instead of being hard-coded, resulting in a PHP warning being thown. #206. Fixes #205.
• :bug: The getFunctionCallParameters() utility method would incorrectly identify an extra parameter if the last parameter passed to a function would have an - unnecessary - comma after it. The getFunctionCallParameters() utility method also did not handle parameters passed as short arrays correctly. #213. Fixes #211.
• :umbrella: Unit tests for the NewFunctionArrayDereferencing sniff were not being run due to a naming error. #208
• :books: Readme: Information about setting the testVersion from a custom ruleset was incorrect. #204
• :wrench: Path to PHPCS in the unit tests breaking for non-Composer installs. #198

Credits

Thanks go out to Juliette Reinders Folmer and Yoshiaki Yoshida for their contributions to this version. :clap:

See all related issues and PRs in the 7.0.4 milestone.

Added

• :star2: New EmptyNonVariable sniff: detection of empty being used on non-variables for PHP < 5.5. #187
• :star2: New NewMagicMethods sniff: detection of declaration of magic methods before the method became "magic". Includes a check for the changed behaviour for the __toString() magic method in PHP 5.2. #176. Fixes #64.
• :star2: New RemovedAlternativePHPTags sniff: detection of ASP and script open tags for which support was removed in PHP 7.0. #184, #193. Fixes #127.
• :star: NonStaticMagicMethods sniff: detection of the __callStatic(), __sleep(), __toString() and __set_state() magic methods.
• :green_heart: Lint all non-test case files for syntax errors during the build testing by Travis. #192

Changed

• :pushpin: NonStaticMagicMethods sniff: will now also sniff traits for magic methods. #174
• :pushpin: NonStaticMagicMethods sniff: will now also check for magic methods which should be declared as static. #174
• :recycle: Various (minor) refactoring for improved performance and sniff accuracy. #178, #179, #174, #171
• :recycle: The unit test suite now internally caches PHPCS run results in combination with a set testVersion to speed up the running of the unit tests. These are now ~3 x faster. #148
• :books: Readme: Minor clarification of the minimum requirements.
• :books: Readme: Advise to use the latest stable version of this repository.
• :wrench: The unit tests can now be run with PHPCS installed in an arbitrary location by passing the location through an environment option. #191.
• :wrench: Improved coveralls configuration and compatibility. #194
• :green_heart: The sniffs are now also tested against PHP 5.2 for consistent results. Except for namespace, trait and group use related errors, most sniffs work as intended on PHP 5.2. #196

Fixed

• :bug: The ForbiddenBreakContinueVariableArguments sniff would not report on break/continue with a closure as an argument. #171
• :bug: The ForbiddenNamesAsInvokedFunctions sniff would not report on reserved keywords which were not lowercase. #186
• :bug: The ForbiddenNamesAsInvokedFunctions sniff would not report on the goto and namespace keywords when run on PHP 5.2. #193
• :bug: NewAnonymousClasses sniff: the version check logic was reversed causing the error not to be reported in certain circumstances. #195.
• :bug: NewGroupUseDeclarations sniff: the version check logic was reversed causing the error not to be reported in certain circumstances. #190.
• :bug: The NonStaticMagicMethods sniff would not report on magic methods when the function name as declared was not in the same case as used in the PHP manual. #174
• :wrench: The unit tests would exit with 0 if PHPCS could not be found. #191
• :green_heart: The PHPCompatibility library itself was not fully compatible with PHP 5.2. #193

Credits

Thanks go out to Juliette Reinders Folmer for her contributions to this version. :clap:

Fixes + improvements on 7.0.2

See all related issues and PRs in the 7.0.3 milestone.

Added

• :star2: New InternalInterfaces sniff: detection of internal PHP interfaces being which should not be implemented by user land classes. #144
• :star2: New LateStaticBinding sniff: detection of PHP 5.3 late static binding. #177
• :star2: New NewExecutionDirectives sniff: verify execution directives set with declare(). #169
• :star2: New NewInterfaces sniff: detection of the use of newly introduced PHP native interfaces. This sniff will also detect unsupported methods when a class implements the Serializable interface. #144
• :star2: New RequiredOptionalFunctionParameters sniff: detection of missing function parameters which were required in earlier PHP versions only to become optional in later versions. #165
• :star2: New ValidIntegers sniff: detection of binary integers for PHP < 5.4, detection of hexademical numeric strings for which recognition as hex integers was removed in PHP 7.0, detection of invalid binary and octal integers. #160. Fixes #55.
• :star: DeprecatedExtensions sniff: detect removal of the ereg extension in PHP 7. #149
• :star: DeprecatedFunctions sniff: detection of the PHP 5.0.5 deprecated php_check_syntax() and PHP 5.4 deprecated mysqli_get_cache_stats() functions. #155.
• :star: DeprecatedFunctions sniff: detect deprecation of a number of the mysqli functions in PHP 5.3. #149
• :star: DeprecatedFunctions sniff: detect removal of the call_user_method(), ldap_sort(), ereg_*() and mysql_*() functions in PHP 7.0. #149
• :star: DeprecatedIniDirectives sniff: detection of a lot more deprecated/removed ini directives. #146
• :star: NewFunctionParameters sniff: detection of a lot more new function parameters. #164
• :star: NewFunctions sniff: detection of numerous extra new functions. #161
• :star: NewIniDirectives sniff: detection of a lot more new ini directives. #146
• :star: NewLanguageConstructs sniff: detection of the PHP 5.6 ellipsis ... construct. #175
• :star: NewScalarTypeDeclarations sniff: detection of PHP 5.1 array and PHP 5.4 callable type hints. #168
• :star: RemovedFunctionParameters sniff: detection of a few extra removed function parameters. #163
• :star: Detection of functions and methods with a double underscore prefix as these are reserved by PHP for future use. The existing upstream Generic.NamingConventions.CamelCapsFunctionName sniff is re-used for this with some customization. #173
• :star: New getFQClassNameFromNewToken(), getFQExtendedClassName(), getFQClassNameFromDoubleColonToken(), getFQName(), isNamespaced(), determineNamespace() and getDeclaredNamespaceName() utility methods in the PHPCompatibility_Sniff base class for namespace determination. #162
• :recycle: New inClassScope() utility method in the PHPCompatibility_Sniff base class. #168
• :recycle: New doesFunctionCallHaveParameters() and getFunctionCallParameterCount() utility methods in the PHPCompatibility_Sniff base class. #153
• :umbrella: Unit test for __halt_compiler() detection by the NewKeywords sniff.
• :umbrella: Unit tests for the NewFunctions sniff. #161
• :umbrella: Unit tests for the ParameterShadowSuperGlobals sniff. #180
• :wrench: Minimal config for Scrutinizer CI. #145.

Changed

• :pushpin: The DeprecatedIniDirectives and the NewIniDirectives sniffs will now indicate an alternative ini directive in case the directive has been renamed. #146
• :pushpin: The NewClasses sniff will now also report on new classes being extended by child classes. #140.
• :pushpin: The NewClasses sniff will now also report on static use of new classes. #162.
• :pushpin: The NewScalarTypeDeclarations sniff will now throw an error on use of type hints pre-PHP 5.0. #168
• :pushpin: The NewScalarTypeDeclarations sniff will now verify type hints used against typical mistakes. #168
• :pushpin: The ParameterShadowSuperGlobals sniff will now do a case-insensitive variable name compare. #180
• :pushpin: The RemovedFunctionParameters sniff will now also report warnings on deprecation of function parameters. #163
• :twisted_rightwards_arrows: The check for JsonSerializable has been moved from the NewClasses sniff to the NewInterfaces sniff. #162
• :rewind: The NewLanguageConstructs sniff will now also recognize new language constructs when used in combination with PHPCS 1.5.x. #175
• :pencil2: NewFunctionParameters sniff: use correct name for the new parameter for the dirname() function. #164
• :pencil2: NewScalarTypeDeclarations sniff: minor change in the sniff error message text. #168
• :pencil2: RemovedFunctionParameters sniff: minor change in the sniff error message text. #163
• :pencil2: The ParameterShadowSuperGlobals sniff now extends the PHPCompatibility_Sniff class. #180
• :recycle: Various (minor) refactoring for improved performance and sniff accuracy. #181, #182, #166, #167, #172, #180, #146, #138
• :recycle: Various refactoring to remove code duplication in the unit tests and add proper test skip notifications where relevant. #139, #149

Fixed

• :bug: The DeprecatedFunctions sniff was reporting an incorrect deprecation/removal version number for a few functions. #149
• :bug: The DeprecatedIniDirectives sniff was in select cases reporting deprecation of an ini directive prior to removal, while the ini directive was never deprecated prior to its removal. #146
• :bug: The DeprecatedPHP4StyleConstructors sniff would cause false positives for methods with the same name as the class in namespaced classes. #167
• :bug: The ForbiddenEmptyListAssignment sniff did not report errors when there were only comments or parentheses between the list parentheses. #166
• :bug: The ForbiddenEmptyListAssignment sniff will no longer cause false positives during live coding. #166
• :bug: The NewClasses sniff would potentially misidentify namespaced classes as PHP native classes. #161
• :bug: The NewFunctions sniff would fail to identify called functions when the function call was not lowercase. #161
• :bug: The NewFunctions sniff would potentially misidentify namespaced userland functions as new functions. #161
• :bug: The NewIniDirectives sniff was reporting an incorrect introduction version number for a few ini directives. #146
• :bug: NewKeywords sniff: the use of the const keyword should only be reported when used outside of a class for PHP < 5.3. #147. Fixes #129.
• :bug: The RemovedExtensions sniff was incorrectly reporting a number of extensions as being removed in PHP 5.3 while they were actually removed in PHP 5.1. #156
• :bug: :recycle: The NewFunctionParameters and RemovedFunctionParameters now use the new doesFunctionCallHaveParameters() and getFunctionCallParameterCount() utility methods for improved accuracy in identifying function parameters. This fixes several false positives. #153 Fixes #120, #151, #152.
• :bug: A number of sniffs would return false if the examined construct was not found. This could potentially cause race conditions/infinite sniff loops. #138
• :wrench: The unit tests would fail to run when used in combination with a PEAR install of PHPCS. #157.
• :green_heart: Unit tests failing against PHPCS 2.6.1. #158 The unit tests will still fail against PHPCS 2.6.2 due to a bug in PHPCS itself. This bug does not affect the running of the sniffs outside of a unit test context.

Credits

Thanks go out to Juliette Reinders Folmer for her contributions to this version. :clap:

Fixes + improvements on 7.0.1

See all related issues and PRs in the 7.0.2 milestone.

Added

• :star: RemovedExtensions sniff: ability to whitelist userland functions for which the function prefix overlaps with a prefix of a deprecated/removed extension. #130. Fixes #123. To use this feature, add the functionWhitelist property in your custom ruleset. For more information, see the README.

Changed

• :pencil2: A number of sniffs contained public class properties. Within PHPCS, public properties can be overruled via a custom ruleset. This was not the intention, so the visibility of these properties has been changed to protected. #135
• :wrench: Composer config: Stable packages are preferred over unstable/dev.
• :pencil2: Ruleset name. #134

Credits

Thanks go out to Juliette Reinders Folmer for her contributions to this version. :clap:

All PHP 7.0 sniffs + fixes for sniffs for previous versions

See all related issues and PRs in the 7.0.1 milestone.

Changed

• :pushpin: The DeprecatedIniDirectives sniff used to throw an error when a deprecated ini directive was used in combination with ini_get(). It will now throw a warning instead. #122 Fixes #119. Usage of deprecated ini directives in combination with ini_set() will still throw an error.
• :pushpin: The PregReplaceEModifier sniff now also detects the e modifier when used with the preg_filter() function. While this is undocumented, the e modifier was supported by the preg_filter() function as well. #128
• :pencil2: The RemovedExtensions sniff contained superfluous deprecation information in the error message. #131

Removed

• :wrench: Duplicate builds from the Travis CI build matrix. #132

Fixed

• :bug: The ForbiddenNames sniff did not allow for the PHP 5.6 use function ... and use const ... syntax. #126 Fixes #124.
• :bug: The NewClasses sniff failed to detect new classes when the class was instantiated without parenthesis, i.e. new NewClass;. #121
• :bug: The PregReplaceEModifier sniff failed to detect the e modifier when using bracket delimiters for the regex other than the {} brackets. #128
• :green_heart: Unit tests failing against PHPCS 2.6.1.

Credits

Thanks go out to Jason Stallings, Juliette Reinders Folmer and Ryan Neufeld for their contributions to this version. :clap: