How can I get php-cs-fixer to work for a Symfony project?

Question

I installed php-cs-fixer globally by running

$ wget http://cs.sensiolabs.org/download/php-cs-fixer-v2.phar -O php-cs-fixer

followed by running

$ sudo chmod a+x php-cs-fixer
$ sudo mv php-cs-fixer /usr/local/bin/php-cs-fixer

When I try to run php-cs-fixer with

$ php-cs-fixer -vv fix /home/xxx/host/master/src/AppBundle/Command/GenerateERPContractInvoicesCommand.php --config=sf2

this results in the following error message:

[PhpCsFixer\ConfigurationException\InvalidConfigurationException (16)]
Cannot read config file "sf2"

An attempt to run with --config=sf23 results in the same error message.

Trying to run like this

$ php-cs-fixer fix src/AppBundle/Command/GenerateERPContractInvoicesCommand.php --level=symfony 

results in the error message

The "--level" option does not exist.

Then I create a configuration file.php_cs with the content

<?php

$finder = Symfony\CS\Finder::create()
    ->exclude([
        'app', 
        'spec', 
        'build', 
        'bin', 
        'web', 
        'vendor',
    ])
    ->in(__DIR__);

return Symfony\CS\Config::create()
    ->fixers([
        'short_array_syntax', 
        '-phpdoc_align',
        'ordered_use',
    ])
    ->finder($finder);

and receive the following error message:

[PhpCsFixer\ConfigurationException\InvalidConfigurationException]
The config file: "/home/ivan/host/master/.php_cs" does not return a "PhpCsFixer\ConfigInterface" instance. Got: "integer".

How do I use php-cs-fixer for Symfony, can you help?

Where can I get the configuration for Symfony, and how do I correctly use php-cs-fixer for a Symfony project ?

Answer 1

According to the documentation, you may want to run with rules argument :

php php-cs-fixer.phar fix /path/to/project --rules=@Symfony