[Feature] Switch to phpl

[joeldbirch]

Hello,

I've never used PHPlint before and I'm trying to get started with grunt-phplint. I have it checking my files correctly and the command line outputs ">> 43 files php linted. Done, without errors.". However, when I put one of those PHP files through the online PHPlint GUI it shows me plenty of errors (as I expected).

Where should I expect to see the errors generated by grunt-phplint? I assume I'm not setting up the config for grunt-phplint correctly. Do I need to state which lint options to test against? Is there anywhere I can see how to do this? My Google-fu is failing me and I can't find any straight forward directions to get me up and running. Here is my (coffeescript) config block for grunt-phplint:

        phplint:
            options:
                phpCmd: '/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.26/bin/php'
            good: [
                '**/*.php'
                '!node_modules/**/*.php'
            ]

I'm just running grunt phplint:good for the moment.

Any info you could provide me to get me on track would be most appreciated. Thanks.

[jgable]

That online site is probably using a different program to check the php files. If you can find out what they are using maybe we can use it here.

For right now all we use is php -l <filepath> on each file that is matched in the glob. I believe it's just a really basic syntax checker, nothing related to style.

[joeldbirch]

I see, thanks for the explanation. I assumed you were using this PHPLint project which provides both a command line tool phpl and a GUI, which is what I linked to earlier. The project looks well maintained and they just released PHPLint v2. The feedback their GUI tool provides is really interesting and useful - it would be amazing if you could have a look at maybe folding the phpl command line stuff into grunt-phplint. Cheers!