Are there objective reasons for using spaces instead of tabs for indenting files as per PSR-2 standard, can someone provide: facts, references, specific expertise on which PSR-2 standard is based...

PSR suggests, method names MUST be declared in camelCase and class names MUST be declared in StudlyCaps.

Question: are parentheses required in PSR-2 PHP ternary syntax? Looking for which (if either) of the following ternary statement's syntax is compliant with PSR-2 - I also need to be pointed to doc...

I want to run phpcs tool, but this error is coming, ERROR: Referenced sniff "PHPCompatibility" does not exist I ran phpcs -i. That gave me , The installed coding standards are PEAR, PSR1, Zend, S...

I currently follow PSR-2 and PSR-4. I'm running into a small dilemma when trying to name a few classes. Here's an example. I have a base REST client, \Vendor\RestClient\AbstractClient. I have two ...

For example Symfony uses \Controller. Yii2 uses \controllers and \models. Is there a standard about ...s|es like PSR?

What is the correct way according to PSR2 for having spaces between keys and values of multiline array. $result = [ 'key1' => 'value1', 'another_key' => 'value2', 'some_other_key' => '...

I work on a proprietary project that uses quite a lot of factories of one form or another. Most of them don't instantiate the class by name, fortunately, but whether new self() or new static() is u...

In my opinion, sample #2 seems to be the more readable way of commenting. But if I apply PSR-2 to both samples, sample #1 won't change but the result of sample #2 changes as below and it's not a ...

I use PSR-2 for code styling my code. When I inspect a file using Codesniffer most of the times I get the following error. 332 | ERROR | [x] Expected 1 newline at end of file; 0 found It's obvi...

I am trying to figure out which code style to enforce with the phpcs code sniffer. Since the popularity of Symfony2, it seems to be a good practice to use its code standard. On the other hand, its...

I want my IDE (PhpStorm) to enforce PSR-2 compatible formatting on all of own files. Occasionally however, I have to submit patches on legacy code where I only want to commit functional changes, no...

Okay, I know php-cs-fixer allows following levels of fixes for coding standards: php php-cs-fixer.phar fix /path/to/project --level=psr0 php php-cs-fixer.phar fix /path/to/project --level=psr1 php ...

I am using Laravel 5.1 now. The migrations class file generated by php artisan make:migration create_users_table --create=users command, would be like this: <?php use Illuminate\Database\Sch...

What is allowed between these two: $value = 'value'; $user = 'John'; $timestamp = 1480927909; $day = date('Y-m-d', $timestamp); or $value = 'value'; $user = 'John'; $timestamp = 1480927909; $da...

Can I use if-statement like: if(true) return $value; Or must use always with braces: if(true) { return $value; }

Is it a valid way(PSR-2) to write code with 2 blank lines in a row? For example: $a = 1; $b = 2; Or there always has to be only one blank line beetween $a and $b?