PHPCompatibilityPasswordCompat

Using PHPCompatibilityPasswordCompat, you can analyse the codebase of a project using using @ircmaxell's password_compat polyfill library, for PHP cross-version compatibility.

What's in this repo ?

A rulesets for PHP_CodeSniffer to check for PHP cross-version compatibility issues in projects, while accounting for polyfills provided by the @ircmaxell's password_compat polyfill library.

This ruleset prevents false positives from the PHPCompatibility standard by excluding back-fills and poly-fills which are provided by the random_compat library.

Requirements

• PHP_CodeSniffer.

  • PHP 5.3+ for use with PHP_CodeSniffer 2.3.0+.
  • PHP 5.4+ for use with PHP_CodeSniffer 3.0.2+.

  Use the latest stable release of PHP_CodeSniffer for the best results. The minimum recommended version of PHP_CodeSniffer is version 2.6.0.

• PHPCompatibility 9.0.0+.

Installation instructions

The only supported installation method is via Composer.

If you don't have a Composer plugin installed to manage the installed_paths setting for PHP_CodeSniffer, run the following from the command-line:

composer config allow-plugins.dealerdirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer true
composer require --dev dealerdirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer:"^0.7" phpcompatibility/phpcompatibility-passwordcompat:"*"

If you already have a Composer PHP_CodeSniffer plugin installed, run:

composer require --dev phpcompatibility/phpcompatibility-passwordcompat:"*"

Next, run:

vendor/bin/phpcs -i

If all went well, you will now see that the PHPCompatibility and PHPCompatibilityPasswordCompat standards are installed for PHP_CodeSniffer.

How to use

Now you can use the following command to inspect the code in your project for PHP cross-version compatibility:

./vendor/bin/phpcs -p . --standard=PHPCompatibilityPasswordCompat

By default, you will only receive notifications about deprecated and/or removed PHP features.

To get the most out of the PHPCompatibilityPasswordCompat standard, you should specify a testVersion to check against. That will enable the checks for both deprecated/removed PHP features as well as the detection of code using new PHP features.

For example:

# For a project which should be compatible with PHP 5.3 up to and including PHP 7.0:
./vendor/bin/phpcs -p . --standard=PHPCompatibilityPasswordCompat --runtime-set testVersion 5.3-7.0

# For a project which should be compatible with PHP 5.4 and higher:
./vendor/bin/phpcs -p . --standard=PHPCompatibilityPasswordCompat --runtime-set testVersion 5.4-

For more detailed information about setting the testVersion, see the README of the generic PHPCompatibility standard.

Testing PHP files only

By default PHP_CodeSniffer will analyse PHP, JavaScript and CSS files. As the PHPCompatibility sniffs only target PHP code, you can make the run slightly faster by telling PHP_CodeSniffer to only check PHP files, like so:

./vendor/bin/phpcs -p . --standard=PHPCompatibilityPasswordCompat --extensions=php --runtime-set testVersion 5.3-

License

All code within the PHPCompatibility organisation is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). For more information, visit https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html

Changelog

1.0.5 - 2025-01-16

This is a maintenance release.

• The recommended version of the Composer PHPCS plugin is now ^1.0.0.
• README: Fixed some broken badges.
• General housekeeping and maintenance. Including a contribution by @fredden.

1.0.4 - 2022-10-23

• README: Updated the installation instructions for compatibility with Composer >= 2.2.
• Composer: The package will now identify itself as a static analysis tool. Thanks @GaryJones!
• Other housekeeping and minor documentation updates.

1.0.3 - 2021-02-15

• The recommended version of the Composer PHPCS plugin is now ^0.7.0, which offers compatibility with Composer 2.0.
• The rulesets are now also tested against PHP 7.4 and 8.0. Note: full PHP 7.4 support is only available in combination with PHP_CodeSniffer 3.5.6. Note: runtime PHP 8.0 support is only available in combination with PHP_CodeSniffer 3.5.7, full support is expected in PHP_CodeSniffer 3.6.0.

1.0.2 - 2019-08-29

• Composer: The recommended version of the Composer PHPCS plugin has been upped to ^0.5.0.
• CI: Added early warning system for false positives due to changes in the polyfill library itself.

1.0.1 - 2018-12-16

• Prevent false positives when the ruleset is run over the code of the polyfill itself.
• The ruleset is now also tested against PHP 7.3. Note: full PHP 7.3 support is only available in combination with PHP_CodeSniffer 2.9.2 or 3.3.1+ due to an incompatibility within PHP_CodeSniffer itself.

1.0.0 - 2018-10-07

Initial release of the PHPCompatibilityPasswordCompat ruleset.