README

About

SmartyLint is a PHP program that finds problems in Smarty files. It is tool that can be used for helping yourself for writing clean Smarty template files.

Requirements

SmartyLint requires PHP version 5.2.4 or greater.

How to use?

Download SmartyLint from github and start using.

git clone git://github.com/umakantp/SmartyLint.git
cd SmartyLint
git checkout v0.2.0
php smartyl -h

See our documentation at https://github.com/umakantp/SmartyLint/wiki for more information.

Smarty conventions

If you start using SmartyLint, it would force you to follow certain standards. Conventions for Smarty files are:-

• Should have one empty line at the bottom.
• Should not have more than 1 empty line at the bottom
• You should write file doc comment at the top in Java Doc format which contains short file description and all the variables used.
• There should be no TODO's and FixMe's in the code.
• Never use HTML comments. You should use Smarty comments {**} instead.
• No whitespace / empty spaces at the end of each line.
• Can have max only 2 empty lines in the content (i.e. 3 new lines in a row).

More conventions would be added as an when code is added for it.

Contributing and Issues

• If you want to report a bug reports open new issue on github.
• Have improvements? or Fixes? You can send in pull request for additional features or rules.