Deprecations

Generic.Formatting.NoSpaceAfterCast Sniff

The Generic.Formatting.NoSpaceAfterCast sniff has been deprecated and will be removed in version 4.

The functionality of this sniff is now available in the Generic.Formatting.SpaceAfterCast sniff. Include the Generic.Formatting.SpaceAfterCast sniff and set the spacing property to 0 to retain the existing functionality. As soon as possible, replace all instances of the old sniff code with the new sniff code and property setting in your ruleset.xml files. The existing sniff will continue to work until version 4 has been released.

Other Changes

• Rule include patterns in a ruleset.xml file are now evaluated as OR instead of AND
  • Previously, a file had to match every include pattern and no exclude patterns to be included
  • Now, a file must match at least one include pattern and no exclude patterns to be included
  • This is a bug fix as include patterns are already documented to work this way
• New token T_BITWISE_NOT added for the bitwise not operator
  • This token was previously tokenized as T_NONE
  • Any sniffs specifically looking for T_NONE tokens with a tilde as the contents must now also look for T_BITWISE_NOT
  • Sniffs can continue looking for T_NONE as well as T_BITWISE_NOT to support older PHP_CodeSniffer versions
• All types of binary casting are now tokenized as T_BINARY_CAST
  • Previously, the b in b"some string with $var" would be a T_BINARY_CAST, but only when the string contained a var
  • This change ensures the b is always tokenized as T_BINARY_CAST
  • This change also converts (binary) from T_STRING_CAST to T_BINARY_CAST
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the help with this patch
• Array properties set inside a ruleset.xml file can now extend a previous value instead of always overwriting it
  • e.g., if you include a ruleset that defines forbidden functions, can you now add to that list instead of having to redefine it
  • To use this feature, add extend="true" to the property tag
    • e.g., <property name="forbiddenFunctionNames" type="array" extend="true">
  • Thanks to Michael Moravec for the patch
• If $XDG_CACHE_HOME is set and points to a valid directory, it will be used for caching instead of the system temp directory
• PHPCBF now disables parallel running if you are passing content on STDIN
  • Stops an error from being shown after the fixed output is printed
• The progress report now shows files with tokenizer errors as skipped (S) instead of a warning (W)
  • The tokenizer error is still displayed in reports as normal
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• The Squiz standard now ensures there is no space between an increment/decrement operator and its variable
• The File:: getMethodProperties() method now includes a has_body array index in the return value
  • FALSE if the method has no body (as with abstract and interface methods) or TRUE otherwise
  • Thanks to Chris Wilkinson for the patch
• The File::getTokensAsString() method now throws an exception if the $start param is invalid
  • If the $length param is invalid, an empty string will be returned
  • Stops an infinite loop when the function is passed invalid data
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Added new Generic.CodeAnalysis.EmptyPHPStatement sniff
  • Warns when it finds empty PHP open/close tag combinations or superfluous semicolons
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the contribution
• Added new Generic.Formatting.SpaceBeforeCast sniff
  • Ensures there is exactly 1 space before a type cast, unless the cast statement is indented or multi-line
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the contribution
• Added new Generic.VersionControl.GitMergeConflict sniff
  • Detects merge conflict artifacts left in files
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the contribution
• Added Generic.WhiteSpace.IncrementDecrementSpacing sniff
  • Ensures there is no space between the operator and the variable it applies to
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the contribution
• Added PSR12.Functions.NullableTypeDeclaration sniff
  • Ensures there is no space after the question mark in a nullable type declaration
  • Thanks to Timo Schinkel for the contribution
• A number of sniffs have improved support for methods in anonymous classes
  • These sniffs would often throw the same error twice for functions in nested classes
  • Error messages have also been changed to be less confusing
  • The full list of affected sniffs is:
    • Generic.NamingConventions.CamelCapsFunctionName
    • PEAR.NamingConventions.ValidFunctionName
    • PSR1.Methods.CamelCapsMethodName
    • PSR2.Methods.MethodDeclaration
    • Squiz.Scope.MethodScope
    • Squiz.Scope.StaticThisUsage
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Generic.CodeAnalysis.UnusedFunctionParameter now only skips functions with empty bodies when the class implements an interface
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Generic.CodeAnalysis.UnusedFunctionParameter now has additional error codes to indicate where unused params were found
  • The new error code prefixes are:
    • FoundInExtendedClass: when the class extends another
    • FoundInImplementedInterface: when the class implements an interface
    • Found: used in all other cases, including closures
  • The new error code suffixes are:
    • BeforeLastUsed: the unused param was positioned before the last used param in the function signature
    • AfterLastUsed: the unused param was positioned after the last used param in the function signature
  • This makes the new error code list for this sniff:
    • Found
    • FoundBeforeLastUsed
    • FoundAfterLastUsed
    • FoundInExtendedClass
    • FoundInExtendedClassBeforeLastUsed
    • FoundInExtendedClassAfterLastUsed
    • FoundInImplementedInterface
    • FoundInImplementedInterfaceBeforeLastUsed
    • FoundInImplementedInterfaceAfterLastUsed
  • These errors code make it easier for specific cases to be ignored or promoted using a ruleset.xml file
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the contribution
• Generic.Classes.DuplicateClassName now inspects traits for duplicate names as well as classes and interfaces
  • Thanks to Chris Wilkinson for the patch
• Generic.Files.InlineHTML now ignores a BOM at the start of the file
  • Thanks to Chris Wilkinson for the patch
• Generic.PHP.CharacterBeforePHPOpeningTag now ignores a BOM at the start of the file
  • Thanks to Chris Wilkinson for the patch
• Generic.Formatting.SpaceAfterCast now has a setting to specify how many spaces are required after a type cast
  • Default remains 1
  • Override the spacing setting in a ruleset.xml file to change
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Generic.Formatting.SpaceAfterCast now has a setting to ignore newline characters after a type cast
  • Default remains FALSE, so newlines are not allowed
  • Override the ignoreNewlines setting in a ruleset.xml file to change
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Generic.Formatting.SpaceAfterNot now has a setting to specify how many spaces are required after a NOT operator
  • Default remains 1
  • Override the spacing setting in a ruleset.xml file to change
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Generic.Formatting.SpaceAfterNot now has a setting to ignore newline characters after the NOT operator
  • Default remains FALSE, so newlines are not allowed
  • Override the ignoreNewlines setting in a ruleset.xml file to change
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• PEAR.Functions.FunctionDeclaration now checks spacing before the opening parenthesis of functions with no body
  • Thanks to Chris Wilkinson for the patch
• PEAR.Functions.FunctionDeclaration now enforces no space before the semicolon in functions with no body
  • Thanks to Chris Wilkinson for the patch
• PSR2.Classes.PropertyDeclaration now checks the order of property modifier keywords
  • This is a rule that is documented in PSR-2 but was not enforced by the included PSR2 standard until now
  • This sniff is also able to fix the order of the modifier keywords if they are incorrect
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• PSR2.Methods.MethodDeclaration now checks method declarations inside traits
  • Thanks to Chris Wilkinson for the patch
• Squiz.Commenting.InlineComment now has better detection of comment block boundaries
• Squiz.Classes.ClassFileName now checks that a trait name matches the filename
  • Thanks to Chris Wilkinson for the patch
• Squiz.Classes.SelfMemberReference now supports scoped declarations and anonymous classes
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Squiz.Classes.SelfMemberReference now fixes multiple errors at once, increasing fixer performance
  • Thanks to Gabriel Ostrolucký for the patch
• Squiz.Functions.LowercaseFunctionKeywords now checks abstract and final prefixes, and auto-fixes errors
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Squiz.Objects.ObjectMemberComma.Missing has been renamed to Squiz.Objects.ObjectMemberComma.Found
  • The error is thrown when the comma is found but not required, so the error code was incorrect
  • If you are referencing the old error code in a ruleset XML file, please use the new code instead
  • If you wish to maintain backwards compatibility, you can provide rules for both the old and new codes
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Squiz.WhiteSpace.ObjectOperatorSpacing is now more tolerant of parse errors
• Squiz.WhiteSpace.ObjectOperatorSpacing now fixes errors more efficiently
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #2109 : Generic.Functions.CallTimePassByReference false positive for bitwise and used in function argument
• Fixed bug #2165 : Conflict between Squiz.Arrays.ArrayDeclaration and ScopeIndent sniffs when heredoc used in array
• Fixed bug #2167 : Generic.WhiteSpace.ScopeIndent shows invalid error when scope opener indented inside inline HTML
• Fixed bug #2178 : Generic.NamingConventions.ConstructorName matches methods in anon classes with same name as containing class
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #2190 : PEAR.Functions.FunctionCallSignature incorrect error when encountering trailing PHPCS annotation
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #2194 : Generic.Whitespace.LanguageConstructSpacing should not be checking namespace operators
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #2202 : Squiz.WhiteSpace.OperatorSpacing throws error for negative index when using curly braces for string access
  • Same issue fixed in Squiz.Formatting.OperatorBracket
  • Thanks to Andreas Buchenrieder for the patch
• Fixed bug #2210 : Generic.NamingConventions.CamelCapsFunctionName not ignoring SoapClient __getCookies() method
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #2211 : PSR2.Methods.MethodDeclaration gets confused over comments between modifier keywords
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #2212 : FUNCTION and CONST in use groups being tokenised as T_FUNCTION and T_CONST
  • Thanks to Chris Wilkinson for the patch
• Fixed bug #2214 : File::getMemberProperties() is recognizing method params as properties
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #2236 : Memory info measurement unit is Mb but probably should be MB
• Fixed bug #2246 : CSS tokenizer does not tokenize class names correctly when they contain the string NEW
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug #2278 : Squiz.Operators.ComparisonOperatorUsage false positive when inline IF contained in parentheses
  • Thanks to Arnout Boks for the patch
• Fixed bug #2284 : Squiz.Functions.FunctionDeclarationArgumentSpacing removing type hint during fixing
  • Thanks to Michał Bundyra for the patch
• Fixed bug #2297 : Anonymous class not tokenized correctly when used as argument to another anon class
  • Thanks to Michał Bundyra for the patch