---
title: "PrettyPHP is an opinionated code formatter for PHP"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/prettyphp-is-an-opinionated-code-formatter-for-php-ty1p60ant
source_url: https://laravel-news.com/pretty-php
type: article
source: "Laravel News"
published: 2025-09-18T13:14:56.037Z
updated: 2025-12-08T02:16:04.149Z
tags: ["cli", "devtools", "laravel", "php"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 17
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# PrettyPHP is an opinionated code formatter for PHP

**[Laravel News](https://daily.dev/sources/ln)** · 2 min read · 17 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

PrettyPHP is a fast, opinionated code formatter for PHP that runs without configuration and provides sensible defaults. It supports PHP 8.4 and below, formats code for readability and consistency, and includes presets for popular frameworks like Symfony, Drupal, Laravel, and WordPress. The tool is PSR-12 compliant and comes with a VS Code extension for automatic formatting on save.

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