Bug 257496

This is my first post of this kind, so please excuse me if I've missed anything I should have included or have posted this in the wrong place.

I format code for WordPress plugins and the like according to WordPress Coding Standards (wpcs), and for the most part NetBeans allows me to set up formatting rules so I can pass PHP CodeSniffer's tests with those standards.

One thing I'm unable to configure NetBeans to format correctly is spaces around array brackets. I currently have it set up to add a space between array brackets by ticking the Within Parentheses > Array Brackets option in Formatting options.

The problem with this is wpcs doesn't expect spaces in all cases. The current wording for the reported errors is:

> Array keys must NOT be surrounded by spaces if they only contain a string or an integer

So while the following is valid:

$array[ $value ];

These are reported as errors:

$array[ 1 ];
$array[ 'value' ];
$array[ "value" ];

It'd be great if there was a way we could add regex patterns to dictate whether or not a space should appear.


I'm aware that'd be a bit more complex than the way the space formatting currently works, but it'd be nice for code to be able to pass all wpcs sniffs without having to run a bash script after every time I format it.