Added support for setting PHP ini values in ruleset.xml files (request #560)

Author: gsherwood

CodeSniffer.php

@@ -789,6 +789,34 @@ public function processRuleset($rulesetPath, $depth=0)
             }
         }//end foreach
 
+        // Set custom php ini values as CLI args.
+        foreach ($ruleset->{'ini'} as $arg) {
+            if ($this->_shouldProcessElement($arg) === false) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            if (isset($arg['name']) === false) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            $name      = (string) $arg['name'];
+            $argString = $name;
+            if (isset($arg['value']) === true) {
+                $value      = (string) $arg['value'];
+                $argString .= "=$value";
+            } else {
+                $value = 'true';
+            }
+
+            $cliArgs[] = '-d';
+            $cliArgs[] = $argString;
+
+            if (PHP_CODESNIFFER_VERBOSITY > 1) {
+                echo str_repeat("\t", $depth);
+                echo "\t=> set PHP ini value $name to $value".PHP_EOL;
+            }
+        }//end foreach
+
         if (empty($cliValues['files']) === true
             && $rulesetDir === getcwd()
         ) {

package.xml

@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ http://pear.php.net/dtd/package-2.0.xsd">
     -- This file is still only used if no standard is specified on the command line
   - Added support for a phpcs.xml.dist file (request #583)
     -- If both a phpcs.xml and phpcs.xml.dist file are present, the phpcs.xml file will be used
+  - Added support for setting PHP ini values in ruleset.xml files (request #560)
+    -- Setting the value of the new ini tags to name="memory_limit" value="32M" is the same as -d memory_limit=32M
   - Added support for one or more bootstrap files to be run before processing begins
     -- Use the --bootstrap=file,file,file command line argument to include bootstrap files
     -- Ueeful if you want to override some of the high-level settings of PHPCS or PHPCBF

phpcs.xml

@@ -11,5 +11,7 @@
  <arg name="report" value="summary"/>
  <arg value="np"/>
 
+ <ini name="memory_limit" value="64M"/>
+
  <rule ref="PHPCS"/>
-</ruleset>
+</ruleset>