The last piece in my attempt to set up an “as easy as it can get” Vagrant virtual machine has been resolving one of my most pressing needs: PHP linting.
PHPStorm and Sublime Text will do that using either the system version of PHP (5.4 for me being on a Mac) or what PHPStorm calls “language level”. Lowest version is, though, 5.3 and 5.2 is not covered.
While simply running the code in a virtual server should do the trick for themes and plugins that task will be a little harder when it comes to Composer packages as those are more components of a plugin or theme then finite and self-contained parts.
For that task I’ve baked the php-lint script into my one liner php LAMP stack version (original by Jeffrey Way) to allow me to symbolic link packages folders in the VM shared folder and run
php-lint ./src
in each of those. The output will filter all passing files and keep the error raising ones alone.
If a folder path is not passed the script will assume the current folder as the root on and will recursively proceed from there.