Command line formatter for PHP and Javascript

Question

Are there any command line (not interactive, not web-based) tools that will reformat (pretty-print) PHP and Javascript code?

Overhaul

Answer 1

PHP_ Beautifier is very outdated! For a more modern approach try php-cs-fixer

Example command: php-cs-fixer fix --rules=@PSR2 path/to/php/src

A second alternative is PHP_CodeSniffer

Example command: phpcbf --standard=PSR2 path/to/php/src

Maritzamariupol

As of 2024, php-cs-fixer only handles basic things like indentation. If you have truly horrible code with things like inconsistent spacing around brackets, it won't fix that. – Prepared

For PHP, there's also pretty-php -- quite modern and actively maintained. – Subsume

Answer 2

For a PHP beautifier, you can also use this pear package PHP_Beautyfier, which can either be called from the command line or instantiated within your own PHP code. For the Javascript one instead, find an open discussion here

Nosing

This is still beta, and hasn't been updated since 2010, with a number of unresolved bugs. – Prepared

Answer 3

I wrote an article explaining how to build a command-line JavaScript beautifier implemented in JavaScript. The best part - it takes under 5 minutes to do it, YMMV.

Cheers!
Shonzilla

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