#linting

Today someone was discussing the goal of linting HTML, specifically of detecting unclosed attributes. Consider the following snippet: <p class="important><img src="alert.png">This is important!</p> It’s clear that a mistake led to a missing double-quote on the class attribute of the opening <p> tag. While WordPress’ HTML API doesn’t directly report this (because “unclosed attribute” isn’t…

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As you get more into DevOps and running CI/CD pipelines with PowerShell code, you will find that you want to have a way to check your code as the pipeline runs. PSScriptanalyzer is a free PowerShell module that provides the ability to check your PowerShell code in your pipelines for code quality and other issues. Let’s look at PSScriptAnalyzer and see how it is the ultimate linter for PowerShell…

I love it when you find an error, stress out over it and Stack Overflow it to pieces, only to find out you failed in cutting and pasting a line of PHP.

Here was my error `Fatal error: Call to undefined function cache_get()` which led me to this Drupal.org page here.

The upshot was that: 1. I wasn’t the only person with this issue. (Not mentioning any names, but it made me feel better seeing there were a fair few...!) 2. It was caused by human error. 3. There was a simple PHP linting line that showed the error more clearly than a UV light in a motel room in movies. That line, which I’ll place here because, well, I’ll be back (I just know it) is: find . -name "*.php" -exec php -l {} \;