Standards can be installed with Composer dependency manager:
composer require code-atlantic/coding-standards --dev
When the package is installed via Composer you can check your files with the coding standards via:
vendor/bin/phpcs --standard="CodeAtlantic" <path>
Where <path> is at least one file or directory to check, ex ..
To not have to pass all the arguments to the command line, and also make your
own project customizations create a phpcs.xml.dist file that contains
something like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <ruleset name="MyProjectCodingStandard"> <description>My Project coding standard.</description> <file>.</file> <!-- Only check .php files --> <arg name="extensions" value="php" /> <!-- Set required text domain --> <config name="text_domain" value="my-project" /> <!-- PHP 7.0 and higher. --> <config name="testVersion" value="7.0-" /> <!-- Rules --> <rule ref="CodeAtlantic" /> </ruleset>