This ruleset for PHPCS and PHPCBF adheres to PSR 12 with three changes:

1. Stroustrup brackets (a K&R variant).

   • The opening bracket is always on the same line
   • No else-cuddling or other compression of control structures, i.e. else and catch keywords are on their own line (followed by the opening bracket).

2. Spaces in Parentheses

   • One space before and after statement inside parentheses in control structures
   • One space after ! in control structures

3. Space around functions

   • One blank line before and after functions

Inspired by this question on Stackoverflow.

<?php

namespace Bar;

class Foo {

  public function baz() {
    if ( ! false ) {
      echo('Hello World!');
    }
    else {
      die();
    }
  }

}

1. Install Composer.

2. Add the following section to your composer.json (perhaps preferrably in the global context). This makes this repository visible for composer (replace the github address with your own if you fork the project). You can locate your composer.json with composer config home or composer global config home.

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "[email protected]:nicolajknudsen/psr12-stroustrup-and-space"
        }
    ]
}

3. Run the following to install the project and dependencies, including dev dependencies. Add a global if you are installing globally. Allow the plugin from "dealerdirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer" when prompted.

composer require nicolajknudsen/psr12-stroustrup-and-space:dev-master

That's it. Check that the coding standard is available by running phpcs -i.

To make use of the linting and fixing ability af PHPCS and PHPCBF in VS Code, complete the following steps:

1. Install the PHPSAB extension in VS Code.
2. Point the config to /path/to/composer/vendor/bin. Follow the guide in the extension documentation, or just open settings.json in VS Code with ctrl+shift+P and add the following config:

{
  "phpsab.executablePathCS": "/path/to/composer/vendor/bin/phpcs",
  "phpsab.executablePathCBF": "/path/to/composer/vendor/bin/phpcbf",
  "phpsab.standard": "psr12-stroustrup-and-space",
  "phpsab.debug": true,
  "phpsab.fixerEnable": true,
  "phpsab.snifferEnable": true,
  "phpsab.snifferShowSources": true
}