Ignore folder but not sniff/ruleset

[MaartenStaa]

Hi,

I have a custom standard under folder foo. It contains the ruleset.xml file and modified versions of certain sniffs, as well as custom ones.

I would like to run phpcs with --ignore=foo,vendor to not sniff files under those two folders, but it results in 0 warnings and errors every time, since foo is also the name of the ruleset. Is there a way around this?

Thanks.

[photodude]

try the following in your ruleset

<!-- Exclude folders not containing production code -->
    <exclude-pattern>*/foo/*</exclude-pattern>
    <exclude-pattern>*/vendor/*</exclude-pattern>

from the command line I think you would do --ignore=*/foo/*,*/vendor/*

[gsherwood]

On the command line, you can also run with --ignore=*/foo/*,*/vendor/*.

Note that the folder name you are ignoring and the name of the standard you are using are not related in any way inside PHP_CodeSniffer, so you aren't telling PHPCS to ignore your standard while checking files.

If you want to see what PHPCS is checking, run it with the -v command line argument and it will show how many files it found to check, how many sniffs it is using for checking, and the results of each file it checked.

[MaartenStaa]

Thanks, that seemed to work after some tinkering. The project is actually also under a directory called foo, and just --ignore=*/foo/*,*/vendor* was also producing a shell error (zsh).

In the end the solution was to use --ignore="pwd/foo/*,pwd/vendor/*".