Question

During the test in sonar i just wanna some rules to be changed so i took a sample from

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/SONAR/Extend+PHP+coding+rules

and make a rule change in

scopeIndentIncorrect and it works . because they have given parameters which I have changed .

but now I want to change the

FunctionCallSignatureIndent
and want to pass a parameters for that

every result I made resulted in creating a new plugin so is there any other way to do it ?

<rule key="PEAR.Functions.FunctionCallSignature.Indent" priority="MAJOR">
<category name="Maintainability"/>
<name>CustomFunctionCallSignatureIndent</name>
<configKey>FUNCTION_CALL_SIGNATURE_INDENT</configKey>
<description><![CDATA[Multi-line function call not indented correctly; expected %s spaces but found %s]]></description>
<param>
  <key>indent</key>
  <description>The number of spaces code should be indented.</description>
  <defaultValue>4</defaultValue>
</param>

This is the entry I made in rules.xml

Answer 1

No, you do not need to write a Sonar plugin for that. You just have to:

1. Make your changes in FunctionCallSignatureIndent
2. Add a new rule like explained in http://docs.codehaus.org/display/SONAR/Extend+PHP+coding+rules
3. For this new rule, add a “” tag like you can see in the PHPMD example of http://docs.codehaus.org/display/SONAR/Extend+PHP+coding+rules

And then, after restarting Sonar, you should be able to customize this rule in Sonar Web UI.