This is a plugin for Sublime Text which provides checkstyle reports using the following tools (all optional):

• PHP_CodeSniffer (phpcs)
• Linter (php -l)
• PHP Mess Detector (phpmd)
• Scheck (scheck, part of Facebook’s pfff toolchain)

You can also configure the plugin to fix the issues using either

• PHP Coding Standards Fixer (php-cs-fixer)
• PHP Code Beautifier (phpcbf) application

Requirements

Requirements for this plugin, should you want all the options to work:

• PHP_CodeSniffer 3.5+
• PHPMD 2.8+
• PHP CS Fixer version 2.6+

Installation

Use Sublime Text’s Package Control (Preferences -> Package Control -> Install Package -> Phpcs) to install this plugin.

Configuration

In both cases, you may need to then configure the following with the actual path to the application:

• phpcs_php_path
• phpcs_executable_path
• phpmd_executable_path
• php_cs_fixer_executable_path

In order to get the path of the application (On a Mac/Linux based environment), you can use:

which phpcs
which phpmd
which php-cs-fixer
which phpcbf

Open the PHP Code Sniffer User Settings(Preferences -> Package Settings -> PHP Code Sniffer -> Settings - User):

{

    "phpcs_executable_path": "/usr/bin/phpcs",

    "phpcs_additional_args": {
        "--standard": "PSR1,PSR2,PSR12",
        "-n": ""
    },

    "phpcs_execute_on_save": true,

    "phpcbf_executable_path": "/usr/bin/phpcbf",

    "phpcbf_on_save": true,

}