[drupal-devel] Checking coding style of contributed modules

[Tim Altman]

Nedjo Rogers said:
> Nice work.  Likely  we could adapt some approaches from, e.g., the PEAR
> PHP_Beautifier package, http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Beautifier.  For
> actually fixing up non-compliant code, contributors could use
> PHP_Beautifier
> directly, if a noble volunteer would write a new "filter" for Drupal
> coding
> styles, modelled on, e.g., the existing PEAR filter (see the file
> Beatutifier/Filter/PEAR.filter.php in the distribution).

It would probably save a bit of work if all patches were run through the
same kind of filter as Dries wrote.  It could check for the same code
style problems and also check if the patch was made using the correct diff
parameters.

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Tim Altman