Coding Standards

Issues

• 📌

  Convert Coding Standards to GitLab pages

  Active

  Documentation

  Created 15 days ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  4 days ago
• ✨

  Require using a colon after case instruction in switch statements

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created over 6 years ago

  v
  🇵🇱Poland Krzysztof Domański

  7 days ago
• 📌

  Allow omitting doxygen when type and variable name is enough

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created almost 2 years ago

  v
  🇨🇦Canada Charlie ChX Negyesi

  7 days ago
• 📌

  Add conditions to deciding if a blog post is needed

  Active

  Documentation

  Created 7 days ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  7 days ago
• ✨

  Adopt phpstan phpdoc types as canonical reference of allowed types

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created 9 months ago

  v
  🇦🇺Australia mstrelan

  7 days ago
• 🌱

  Coding Standards Meeting TBD UTC

  Active

  Meeting

  Created about 2 months ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  8 days ago
• 📌

  Allow usage of stdclass instead of object where it makes sense

  Needs work

  Coding Standards

  Created over 2 years ago

  v
  🇭🇺Hungary mxr576

  9 days ago
• ✨

  Allow omitting @var for strictly typed class properties

  RTBC

  Coding Standards

  Created over 3 years ago

  v
  🇳🇱Netherlands kingdutch

  10 days ago
• 📌

  Traits should always have the suffix "Trait"

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created 17 days ago

  v
  godotislate

  10 days ago
• 🌱

  Coding Standards Meeting TBD UTC

  Active

  Meeting

  Created about 2 months ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  15 days ago
• 📌

  Standardize on indent and comment line length within code samples in a docblock (@code … @endcode)

  Active

  Documentation

  Created almost 13 years ago

  v
  🇨🇦Canada star-szr

  16 days ago
• 📌

  Fix inconsistent indentation between @code - @endcode block in core

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created almost 7 years ago

  v
  🇮🇳India msankhala

  16 days ago
• 📌

  [policy, no patch] Secondary/additional test @group names

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created almost 11 years ago

  v
  🇩🇪Germany sun

  16 days ago
• 📌

  [policy] Remove the requirement for doxygen for test methods

  Needs work

  Documentation

  Created over 11 years ago

  v
  🇨🇦Canada chx

  16 days ago
• 📌

  Discuss t() in tests

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created 3 months ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  16 days ago
• 📌

  Define a standard for naming data providers in PHPUnit-based tests

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created 11 months ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  16 days ago
• 📌

  [policy, no patch] Fix coding standards for PHPUnit tests

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created about 11 years ago

  v
  🇩🇪Germany sun

  16 days ago
• 🌱

  Coding Standards Meeting Wednesday 2025-05-28 0900 UTC

  Active

  Meeting

  Created 16 days ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  16 days ago
• ✨

  Stop using uppercase TRUE, FALSE, NULL literals

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created about 1 year ago

  v
  🇮🇹Italy mondrake

  19 days ago
• 📌

  Remove larowlan from coding standards committee

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created 4 months ago

  v
  🇦🇺Australia larowlan

  21 days ago
• 🌱

  Coding Standards Meeting Wednesay 2024-10-23 0900 UTC

  Active

  Meeting

  Created 7 months ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  21 days ago
• 🌱

  Coding Standards Meeting Tuesday 2024-11-04 2100 UTC

  Active

  Meeting

  Created 6 months ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  21 days ago
• 🌱

  Coding Standards Meeting Wednesday 2024-12-04 0900 UTC

  Active

  Meeting

  Created 6 months ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  21 days ago
• 🌱

  Coding Standards Meeting Tuesday 2025-02-26 0900 UTC

  Active

  Meeting

  Created 3 months ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  21 days ago
• ✨

  Disallow PHPDoc comments within a functions parameter declaration

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created about 1 month ago

  v
  🇳🇱Netherlands kingdutch

  29 days ago
• 📌

  Add Accessibility Coding Standards

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created over 2 years ago

  v
  🇨🇦Canada mgifford

  about 1 month ago
• 🐛

  Conflict between coding standards and module documentation guidelines on file naming

  RTBC

  Coding Standards

  Created over 6 years ago

  v
  🇺🇸United States bkline

  about 2 months ago
• 📌

  Be clear about "use strict" in JavaScript files

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created about 2 months ago

  v
  🇨🇦Canada Liam Morland

  about 2 months ago
• 📌

  Make camelCase variable naming preferred over snake_case

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created about 9 years ago

  v
  🇦🇹Austria klausi

  about 2 months ago
• ✨

  add a standard for referring to HTML tags in code documentation

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created about 9 years ago

  v
  🇬🇧United Kingdom joachim

  about 2 months ago
• 📌

  Need doxygen standards for overriding a theme hook/template

  Closed: duplicate

  Documentation

  Created about 15 years ago

  v
  🇺🇸United States jhodgdon

  about 2 months ago
• 🐛

  Follow DOXYGEN syntax for how @addtogroup is supposed to work

  Active

  Documentation

  Created over 9 years ago

  v
  🇺🇸United States markhalliwell

  about 2 months ago
• 📌

  @file doc blocks for test classes with an additional class in the file

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created almost 9 years ago

  v
  🇺🇸United States jhodgdon

  2 months ago
• 📌

  Forbid using more than one space around operators

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created over 8 years ago

  v
  🇦🇹Austria drunken monkey

  3 months ago
• 📌

  [policy] OO: Documentation standards "overkill" (not agile enough) for getters and setters

  Closed: duplicate

  Coding Standards

  Created almost 11 years ago

  v
  🇦🇺Australia webel

  3 months ago
• 📌

  Require backslash prefix for global functions and constants

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created over 3 years ago

  v
  🇩🇪Germany donquixote

  3 months ago
• 🌱

  Adopt CommonMark spec for Markdown files

  Needs work

  Coding Standards

  Created about 7 years ago

  v
  🇺🇸United States markhalliwell

  3 months ago
• 📌

  Require short ternary (Elvis operator) syntax

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created about 1 year ago

  v
  🇦🇺Australia mstrelan

  3 months ago
• 📌

  Define order of object method modifiers as in PSR-12

  Needs review

  Coding Standards

  Created about 8 years ago

  v
  🇦🇹Austria klausi

  3 months ago
• 📌

  Use C::class instead of 'C' for strings holding class names, to facilitate "find usages" in IDEs.

  Needs work

  Coding Standards

  Created over 8 years ago

  v
  🇩🇪Germany donquixote

  3 months ago
• 📌

  Add @see comments on function name strings, to facilitate "find usages" in IDEs

  Postponed: needs info

  Coding Standards

  Created over 8 years ago

  v
  🇩🇪Germany donquixote

  3 months ago
• ✨

  Coding standard to enforce backslash on function calls outside of a namespace

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created 4 months ago

  v
  🇧🇪Belgium BramDriesen

  3 months ago
• 📌

  Update about @return $this

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created over 2 years ago

  v
  🇫🇷France andypost

  3 months ago
• 📌

  Add a mention of how to link to a change record in a @deprecated tag

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created over 4 years ago

  v
  🇬🇧United Kingdom joachim

  3 months ago
• ✨

  [Policy, no patch] Reflect secure coding policy in coding standard of only using Crypt::hashBase64() for hashes

  Needs work

  Coding Standards

  Created over 8 years ago

  v
  🇺🇸United States pwolanin

  3 months ago
• 📌

  Add a standard for importing traits

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created over 4 years ago

  v
  🇬🇧United Kingdom joachim

  3 months ago
• 🌱

  Convention or recommendation for line breaks in constructor parameter signature with promoted properties

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created 11 months ago

  v
  🇩🇪Germany donquixote

  3 months ago
• 📌

  Space in `match (..)`.

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created over 1 year ago

  v
  🇩🇪Germany donquixote

  3 months ago
• 📌

  No documentation about @group @coversDefaultClass @covers

  Needs work

  Coding Standards

  Created over 10 years ago

  v
  🇳🇱Netherlands clemens.tolboom

  3 months ago
• ✨

  OO: Documentation standards: documenting every constant "overkill" when context is clear.

  Postponed: needs info

  Coding Standards

  Created almost 11 years ago

  v
  🇦🇺Australia webel

  3 months ago
• ✨

  Relax the "Conditions should not be wrapped into multiple lines" rule for more code readability

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created over 1 year ago

  v
  🇦🇲Armenia murz

  3 months ago
• 📌

  Document that Drupal aims to be PSR-1 compliant in the coding standards

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created about 9 years ago

  v
  🇦🇹Austria klausi

  3 months ago
• 📌

  Add a standard for "All identifiers should be quoted in database queries"

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created over 4 years ago

  v
  🇳🇱Netherlands daffie

  3 months ago
• 📌

  Adjust deprecated coding standard in tests

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created over 3 years ago

  v
  🇧🇪Belgium mallezie

  3 months ago
• ✨

  Allow multi-line @var inline variable type declarations

  Closed: works as designed

  Coding Standards

  Created over 3 years ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  3 months ago
• 📌

  Use @implements Doxygen directive for hook implementations

  Needs work

  Documentation

  Created over 14 years ago

  v
  🇬🇧United Kingdom jbrown

  3 months ago
• 📌

  Allow {@inheritdoc} and additional documentation

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created about 12 years ago

  v
  🇨🇭Switzerland ParisLiakos

  3 months ago
• 📌

  Comment style for Enum

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created 6 months ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  3 months ago
• 📌

  Discuss/clarify the use of @throws tag in interfaces, and contract enforcement

  Postponed: needs info

  Coding Standards

  Created about 9 years ago

  v
  🇩🇪Germany donquixote

  3 months ago
• 📌

  Merge 'Object-oriented code' page into 'PHP coding standards' page

  Active

  Documentation

  Created 5 months ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  3 months ago
• ✨

  Adopt the PSR-12 standard for PHP7 return types

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created over 7 years ago

  v
  🇧🇬Bulgaria pfrenssen

  3 months ago
• 🐛

  Remove section on Persistent Variables

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created over 1 year ago

  v
  🇬🇧United Kingdom joachim

  3 months ago
• ✨

  Make @file optional for *.module and *.install files

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created over 9 years ago

  v
  🇷🇺Russia Chi

  3 months ago
• 📌

  Disallow `or` or `and` in Logical Operators (use `||` or `&&`)

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created almost 8 years ago

  v
  🇨🇦Canada joelpittet

  3 months ago
• ✨

  Allow Implements hook_foo_BAR_ID_bar() for 'xyz_bar'.

  Postponed: needs info

  Coding Standards

  Created over 7 years ago

  v
  🇳🇱Netherlands megachriz

  3 months ago
• ✨

  Add recommendations for YAML files coding standards to minimize usage of inline JSON constructions

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created almost 2 years ago

  v
  🇦🇲Armenia murz

  4 months ago
• 🌱

  Expand hook documentation to explain caller responsibilities

  Closed: works as designed

  Coding Standards

  Created about 14 years ago

  v
  🇺🇸United States agentrickard

  4 months ago
• ✨

  Allow @param and @return docs on hook implementations

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created almost 6 years ago

  v
  🇩🇪Germany donquixote

  4 months ago
• 📌

  Document cases where it's appropriate to use global \Drupal calls as opposed to DI

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created over 4 years ago

  v
  🇺🇸United States mrweiner

  4 months ago
• ✨

  Explicitly require no space before colon for return types

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created 8 months ago

  v
  🇦🇺Australia mstrelan

  4 months ago
• 📌

  Change sniff rule for @todo to be capitalized and sniff non-php files

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created about 1 year ago

  v
  🇺🇸United States smustgrave

  4 months ago
• 📌

  [policy] Coding standards for "use" statements

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created almost 13 years ago

  v
  🇧🇪Belgium aspilicious

  4 months ago
• ✨

  Decide on a coding style for PHP Enumerations

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created over 2 years ago

  v
  🇬🇧United Kingdom Eli-T

  4 months ago
• 📌

  Update CSS coding standards to include PostCSS and Drupal 10

  Needs review

  Coding Standards

  Created over 2 years ago

  v
  🇺🇸United States mherchel

  5 months ago
• 🌱

  Simplify first line in constructor doc comments to "Constructor."

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created 11 months ago

  v
  🇩🇪Germany donquixote

  6 months ago
• ✨

  Consistent styling for the NULL/TRUE/FALSE symbols

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created over 3 years ago

  v
  🇺🇸United States totten

  6 months ago
• 🌱

  Coding Standards Meeting Tuesday 2024-10-08 2100 UTC

  RTBC

  Meeting

  Created 7 months ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  6 months ago
• 📌

  [2024-0814] Draft blog

  Active

  Meeting

  Created 9 months ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  6 months ago
• ✨

  Reconsider Comment structure for strict types

  Closed: duplicate

  Coding Standards

  Created almost 4 years ago

  v
  🇺🇸United States timodwhit

  7 months ago
• 🌱

  Coding Standards Meeting Wednesday 2024-09-25 0900 UTC

  RTBC

  Meeting

  Created 8 months ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  7 months ago
• ✨

  Stop using {@inheritdoc} in DocBlocks

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created over 2 years ago

  v
  🇮🇹Italy mondrake

  7 months ago
• 🌱

  Coding Standards Meeting Tuesday 2024-07-16 2100 UTC

  Active

  Meeting

  Created 11 months ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  7 months ago
• 🌱

  Coding Standards Meeting Wednesday 2024-09-10 2100 UTC

  RTBC

  Meeting

  Created 8 months ago

  v
  🇦🇺Australia larowlan

  7 months ago
• 🌱

  Coding Standards Meeting Wednesday 2024-07-31 0900 UTC

  Active

  Meeting

  Created 10 months ago

  v
  🇦🇺Australia larowlan

  7 months ago
• 🌱

  Coding Standards Meeting Tuesday 2024-08-13 2100 UTC

  Needs review

  Meeting

  Created 10 months ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  7 months ago
• 🌱

  Coding Standards Meeting Wednesdsy 2024-08-28 0900 UTC

  Fixed

  Meeting

  Created 9 months ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  7 months ago
• ✨

  Support PHPDoc Types in @param @var @return annotations

  Closed: duplicate

  Coding Standards

  Created over 2 years ago

  v
  🇮🇹Italy mondrake

  8 months ago
• ✨

  Stop using FQCN in PHPDoc annotations

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created about 2 years ago

  v
  🇮🇹Italy mondrake

  8 months ago
• ✨

  Import classes used in annotations

  Closed: outdated

  Coding Standards

  Created about 9 years ago

  v
  🇨🇦Canada deviantintegral

  8 months ago
• 📌

  Document use of PHP Attributes for plugins

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created over 1 year ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  9 months ago
• 📌

  Adopt a method of documenting service tags

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created almost 9 years ago

  v
  🇺🇸United States jhodgdon

  9 months ago
• 📌

  Define a standard for Date formats

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created 9 months ago

  v
  🇩🇰Denmark ressa

  9 months ago
• 📌

  Agree on a property naming pattern

  Postponed: needs info

  Coding Standards

  Created almost 14 years ago

  v
  🇦🇹Austria fago

  9 months ago
• 📌

  Change !isset to the null coalescing assignment operator ??=

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created about 1 year ago

  v
  🇺🇸United States smustgrave

  9 months ago
• 🌱

  Coding Standards Meeting Wednesday 2024-07-03 0900 UTC

  Fixed

  Meeting

  Created 11 months ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  10 months ago
• 🌱

  Coding Standards Meeting Wednesday 2024-05-08 0900 UTC

  Fixed

  Meeting

  Created about 1 year ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  10 months ago
• 🌱

  Coding Standards Meeting Tuesday 2024-06-18 2100 UTC

  Fixed

  Meeting

  Created 11 months ago

  v
  🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

  10 months ago
• 📌

  list() syntax

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created about 13 years ago

  v
  🇺🇸United States traviscarden

  10 months ago
• 📌

  Using '&' in doxygen @param documentation

  Closed: won't fix

  Documentation

  Created over 13 years ago

  v
  🇦🇹Austria klausi

  10 months ago
• 📌

  Allow type hinting with classes where appropriate

  Active

  Coding Standards

  Created over 3 years ago

  v
  🇬🇧United Kingdom catch

  10 months ago