Flitch - PHP coding standard validator

About

Flitch is a coding standard validator for PHP, meant as a replacement for PHPCS. It is partly based on PHPca https://github.com/spriebsch/phpca by Stefan Priebsch, but should not be confused with a fork of it.

Flitch will scan through your source files and detect coding standard violations. Currently it ships with PSR-1 and PSR-2 as core standards, but can be extended by custom standards.

Why replace PHPCS?

Since this question came up a few times already, here is a list of reasons:

• PHPCS is known to be a memory hog.
• It is not trivial to write complex rules for PHPCS.
• It is complicated to write unit tests for rules.
• Flitch is written completly modular, so it can be reused in other applications.
• Last but not least, competition is a good thing.

Adding custom standards

Custom standards should be located in the directory .flitch/standards in your home directory.

Installation

To install Flitch, simply clone it with git. Additionally you can symlink the "flitch" executable to a directory in your PATH.

Using Flitch

For command line options, run flitch --help