PHP Package Boilerplate

A template repository for PHP package.

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Start new project

$ composer create-project tomkyle/boilerplate-php new-project  
$ cd new-project
$ composer install
$ npm install

Initial setup

On first install, the composer install command will create two things:

1. Pre-commit hook

The pre-commit hook runs the following checks before allowing any git commit:

• PHPUnit tests
• PHPStan static analysis
• Rector to fix code style issues
• PHP CS Fixer to format the code

2. Local PHP-CS-Fixer configuration

While the .php-cs-fixer.dist.php in the repo basically sets @PER-CS as coding standard, the local .php-cs-fixer.php override sets the sophisticated @PhpCsFixer coding standard. Its opinionated rules are compatible with PER-CS. This setup matches my taste but leaves room for customization.

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Requirements and suggestions

PSR standard	require	suggest
PSR-3 Logger implementation	psr/log	Monolog Logger
PSR-6 Cache Implementation	psr/cache	Symfony Cache component
PSR-17 HTTP factory* implementation	psr/http-factory	nyholm/psr7
PSR-18 HTTP client	psr/http-client	Guzzle 7

$ composer require monolog/monolog
$ composer require symfony/cache
$ composer require nyholm/psr7
$ composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle

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Development

Watch PHP source code

Watch the file system for PHP code changes. Unit and code quality tests are automatically triggered. To manually trigger a test run, see package.json for a list of all test tasks:

$ npm run watch

Whenever a PHP file is changed, the following tasks are run:

• PHPUnit test — only for that very file
• PHPStan static analysis
• Rector to fix code style issues

PHP CS Fixer is not automatically applied, but you can invoke it manually with npm run phpcs or npm run phpcs:apply to apply the changes. It will, however, automatically be executed on git commit.

Available npm scripts:

$ npm run

Overview:

• watch watches src/ and tests/ directory
• phpstan runs PHPStan static analysis
• phpcs runs PHP CS Fixer as a dry run, use phpcs:apply to actually apply changes.
• rector runs Rector as a dry run, use rector:apply to actually apply changes.
• phpunit runs PHPUnit tests with textdox and coverage report if available.