Thomas Vortuba has a new tutorial posted to his site showing how to easily switch from PHP_CdeSniffer to EasyCodingStandard for enforcing the structure and syntax of your PHP application's code.

Last year, I helped Shopsys Coding Standards and LMC PHP Coding Standard to migrate from PHP_CodeSniffer to EasyCodingStandard.

There are a few simple A ? B changes, but one has to know about them or will get stuck.

Do you also use PHP_CodeSniffer and give it EasyCodingStandard a try? Today we look at how to migrate step by step.

The post then walks you through the five-step process and lists out the major changes:

1. From String Codes to Autocompleted Classes
2. From @codingStandardsIgnoreStart to skip Parameter
3. From 0 and to skip Parameter
4. From XML to YML Config Paths
5. Configuring Sniff Values
6. From Severity and Warning to Just Errors
7. From Beautifier to --fix option

Each step includes either the command required, the configuration changes to make or code examples of the refactor to help illustrate the changes.