Tidy assignments in Coda and TextWrangler

I have written a simple tool to tidy assignments. It basically takes a group of assignments and uses spaces to make the code more readable.

This tool will help code meet the indentation rules in the WordPress coding standards.

If you have a group of basic assignments like…

[source language=“php“]
$variable1 = 0;
$long_variable2 = 123213123;
$short = ‚test‘;
$s = ‚test2‘;
[/source]

This tool will space them so…

[source language=“php“]
$variable1 = 0;
$long_variable2 = 123213123;
$short = ‚test‘;
$s = ‚test2‘;
[/source]

It will also work associative arrays…

[source language=“php“]
array(
‚magpie‘ => 0,
‚blog‘ => 1,
‚random‘ => 2,
‚too_long_string‘ => 3
);
[/source]

… with spacing …

[source language=“php“]
array(
‚magpie‘ => 0,
‚blog‘ => 1,
‚random‘ => 2,
‚too_long_string‘ => 3
);
[/source]

The tool is available as a Coda plugin and a TextWrangler UNIX filter.

For Coda

• Download the Coda plugin
• Extract the zip file and double-click the tidy-assignment.codaplugin file
• Select code, right-click, goto Plug-ins->Tidy Assignment

To remove/uninstall the plugin;

• Close Coda
• Goto [your_home_folder]/Library/Application Support/Coda/Plug-ins/
• Delete the file tidy-assignment.codaplugin

For TextWrangler

• Open TextWrangler and open a new text file.
• Copy and paste the code below into this file.

[source language=“php“]
#!/usr/bin/php
<?php

if ( !isset( $_SERVER[‚argv‘] ) && !isset( $_SERVER[‚argv‘][1] ) )
die();

$fc = file_get_contents( $_SERVER[‚argv‘][1] );
$lines = explode( "\n", $fc );
$clean = array();
$assoc = false;

$longest_line_index = 0;
$longest_line_length = 0;

foreach ( $lines as $key => $line ) {
//remove whitspace
$line = preg_replace( ‚/\s\s+/‘, ‚ ‚, trim( $line ) );
$parts = array();

if ( mb_stripos( $line, ‚=>‘ ) !== FALSE ) {
$parts = explode( "=>", $line );
$assoc = true;
}
elseif ( mb_stripos( $line, ‚=‘ ) !== FALSE ) {
$parts = explode( "=", $line );
}

if ( !empty( $parts ) && mb_strlen( $parts[0] ) > $longest_line_length ) {
$longest_line_index = $key;
$longest_line_length = mb_strlen( $parts[0] );
}

if ( mb_strlen( $line ) > 0 )
$clean[$key] = $line;
}

$longest_line = $clean[$longest_line_index];
$operator = $assoc ? ‚=>‘ : ‚=‘ ;

//add spaces to line
if ( mb_stripos( $longest_line, $operator ) !== FALSE ) {
$parts = explode( $operator, $longest_line );
$longest_line = sprintf( "%s %s %s", trim( $parts[0] ), $operator, trim( $parts[1] ) );
}
else {
$longest_line = sprintf( "%s", trim( $longest_line ) );
}

//now get the position of equals
$pos = mb_stripos( $longest_line, $operator );
if ( $pos === FALSE )
$pos = mb_strlen( $longest_line );

foreach ( $clean as $key => &$line ) {
if ( $key == $longest_line_index )
$line = $longest_line;
elseif ( mb_stripos( $line, $operator ) !== FALSE ) {
$spaces = ‚ ‚;
$parts = explode( $operator, $line );
if ( !empty( $parts ) )
while ( mb_stripos( $line, $operator ) < $pos ) {
$line = sprintf( "%s%s%s %s", trim( $parts[0] ), $spaces, $operator, trim( $parts[1] ) );
$spaces .= " ";
}
}
else {
$line = sprintf( "%s", trim( $line ) );
}
}

echo implode( "\n", $clean );
[/source]

• Save the file, something like Tidy Assignment.php, in the Filters folder.
• You can find the filters folder by going to the #! menu and go to the Unix Filters sub-menu, and select the Open Filters Folder, like below.
  

• Now anytime you want to tidy assignments, just go to this menu and select the Tidy Assignment script.

First time I created a coda plugin and I am surprised how simple it is. I may experiment with this in the future if I can think of anything useful.