Issue running code sniffer on Mac

Question

I am trying to install php code sniffer. I have manage to get to a point where after running php /Users/ryanfernandes/pear/bin/phpcs --version it display the info. but when I try to run code sniffer by

php /Users/username/pear/bin/phpcs /Users/username/development/htdocs/test.php 
PHP Warning:  fwrite() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /Users/username/pear/share/pear/PHP/CodeSniffer/Reporting.php on line 155

Warning: fwrite() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /Users/username/pear/share/pear/PHP/CodeSniffer/Reporting.php on line 155
PHP Warning:  stream_get_meta_data() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /Users/username/pear/share/pear/PHP/CodeSniffer/Reporting.php on line 206

Warning: stream_get_meta_data() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /Users/username/pear/share/pear/PHP/CodeSniffer/Reporting.php on line 206
PHP Warning:  file_get_contents(): Filename cannot be empty in /Users/username/pear/share/pear/PHP/CodeSniffer/Reporting.php on line 208

Warning: file_get_contents(): Filename cannot be empty in /Users/username/pear/share/pear/PHP/CodeSniffer/Reporting.php on line 208
PHP Warning:  fclose() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /Users/username/pear/share/pear/PHP/CodeSniffer/Reporting.php on line 209

Warning: fclose() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /Users/username/pear/share/pear/PHP/CodeSniffer/Reporting.php on line 209

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

From the error messages, it looks like you are using PHP_CodeSniffer version 1.5.4. PHP_CodeSniffer uses the tmpfile() function to create a temporary file. The directory that it is created in can be found by running:

php -r 'echo sys_get_temp_dir().PHP_EOL;'

Make sure you are allowed to write to that directory because the tmpfile() method is obviously returning FALSE, which most commonly happens if the directory is not writable.