We have each of our custom modules in separate GitHub repositories that are managed via composer and would like to use PHP_CodeSniffer on the files within. We have also created a separate GitHub repository for reusable workflows that the module workflows will call.

The phpcs-ruleset.xml file that we want to use is located in the root of our workflows repository. At this point, PHP_CodeSniffer is running through the files of the module correctly and shows the errors that it finds but is not respecting the rules I’ve changed in the phpcs-ruleset.xml file, specifically the Generic.WhiteSpace.ScopeIndent properties I changed.

This is the reusable workflow currently:

name: Test versions of Drupal core and PHP on:   workflow_call:     inputs:       module-name:         required: true         type: string       dependencies:         required: false         type: string jobs:   testing:     name: Drupal ${{ matrix.drupal-core }} - PHP ${{ matrix.php-versions }}     runs-on: ubuntu-latest     strategy:       fail-fast: false       matrix:         drupal-core: ['9.2.x', '9.3.x']         php-versions: ['7.4', '8.0']     steps:       - name: Checkout Drupal core         uses: actions/checkout@v2         with:           repository: drupal/drupal           ref: ${{ matrix.drupal-core }}        - name: Checkout module         uses: actions/checkout@v2         with:           path: modules/${{ inputs.module-name }}        - name: Setup PHP, with composer and extensions         uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2         with:           php-version: ${{ matrix.php-versions }}           coverage: none        - name: Get composer cache directory         id: composercache         run: echo "::set-output name=dir::$(composer config cache-files-dir)"        - name: Cache composer dependencies         uses: actions/cache@v2         with:           path: ${{ steps.composercache.outputs.dir }}           key: ${{ runner.os }}-composer-${{ hashFiles('**/composer.lock') }}           restore-keys: ${{ runner.os }}-composer-        - name: Install Drupal core dependencies         run: |           composer --no-interaction --no-progress --prefer-dist --optimize-autoloader install        - name: Install module dependencies         if: ${{ inputs.dependencies != '' }}         run: |           composer --no-interaction --no-progress require              ${{ inputs.dependencies }}        - name: Install Coder module         run: |           composer --dev --no-interaction --no-progress require              drupal/coder:8.3.15        - name: Check coding standards         run: |           ./vendor/bin/phpcs -p modules/${{ inputs.module-name }} 

This is the workflow in one of our custom module repositories that calls the reusable workflow:

name: Test versions of Drupal core and PHP on:   push:     branches: [ main ]   pull_request:     branches: [ main ] jobs:   test-drupal-and-php-versions-workflow:     uses: MyOrg/workflows/.github/workflows/drupal-php-test.yml@main     with:       module-name: ${{ github.event.repository.name }} 

and this is the custom PHP_CodeSniffer ruleset that I’m wanting to use, it doesn’t have many rules as of yet because I’m just trying to get it to work currently:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ruleset name="phpcs-standard">   <description>Codestyle ruleset for Drupal</description>    <!-- Specify standards. -->   <rule ref="Drupal"/>   <rule ref="DrupalPractice"/>    <rule ref="Generic.WhiteSpace.ScopeIndent">     <properties>         <property name="indent" value="2" />         <property name="exact" value="true" />     </properties>   </rule>    <!-- Include path with the Drupal and DrupalPractice rules. -->   <config name="installed_paths" value="vendor/drupal/coder/coder_sniffer"/>    <!-- Set ignore extensions. -->   <arg name="ignore" value="*.css,*.md,*.txt"/>    <!-- Check all files in the current directory and below. -->   <file>.</file> </ruleset>