Drupal Coding Standards Sniffer for PTI

More infos about this "Project": http://drupal.org/node/897116

Requirements: Eclipse : http://www.eclipse.org Eclipse PTI (Php Tools Integration) : http://www.phpsrc.org

Installation:

• Install Eclipse http://drupal.org/node/75242
• Install PTI Plugin
• Configure PTI:
  • Open Eclipse preferences -> PHP Tools -> PHP Codesniffer:
    • Add a new "CodeSniffer Standard" - choose this library
    • Activate the library by checking the checkbox next to its name.
    • Make sure the Standard Tab Widht configuration is set to 0. Otherwise you won't get notified about evil tabs in the code.

Now you'll have a PHP Tools entry in the right click menu in the navigator. Or you can just hit "Validate" within the right click menu of a file.

Recommendation:

• Disable the autorun of validators to save performance.
• Configure the "CodeSniffer Standard" to use per project.

Attention: This is still a draft!! Please cross check with http://drupal.org/coding-standards and http://drupal.org/project/coder if the validation is correct

Known Issues: Documentation Tags just rarly supported - there are many missing / disabled sniffs