Question

Do you know any good tools for nicely formatting messy php code? Preferably a script for Aptana/Eclipse, but a standalone tool will do too.

Answer 1

PHP Code Beautifier is a useful free tool that should do what you’re after, although their download page does require an account to be created.

The tool has been declined into 3 versions:

• A GUI version which allow to process file visually.
• A command line version which allow to be batched or integrated with other tools (CVS, SubVersion, IDE …).
• As an integrated tool of PHPEdit.

Basically, it’ll turn:

if($code == BAD){$action = REWRITE;}else{$action = KEEP;} for($i=0; $i<10;$i++){while($j>0){$j++;doCall($i+$j);if($k){$k/=10;}}} 

into

if ($code == BAD) {     $action = REWRITE; } else {     $action = KEEP; } for($i = 0; $i < 10;$i++) {     while ($j > 0) {         $j++;         doCall($i + $j);         if ($k) {             $k /= 10;         }     } }