PHP Beautifier
Use our PHP beautifier to format messy code neatly. Drop in your code, beautify it, and copy the cleaned output in one click. No installs needed.
PHP Beautifier
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What this does
So you have inherited some PHP where the indentation is all over the place, or you have pasted in code that needs tightening before it goes near a commit. This beautifies it. Paste your PHP, click Format, and it comes back cleanly indented and consistently spaced.
How to use it
- Paste your PHP code into the box.
- Click Format.
- Copy the formatted code.
How it works
This uses Prettier together with its PHP plugin, set to PHP 7.4. Prettier on its own does not speak PHP, the plugin is what teaches it the language, so it can parse your functions, classes, and control structures and reprint them with consistent formatting. It runs entirely in the browser, so your PHP is never sent to a server.
A consistent PHP style
The PHP world has a widely followed style standard called PSR-12, which sets out conventions for indentation, braces, spacing, and the like, so that code looks consistent across projects and teams. A formatter takes the effort out of following it: instead of adjusting spacing by hand, you let the tool apply a consistent style for you. The result is code that reads the same way wherever you find it, and clean diffs when you commit, since the formatting is no longer part of the change.
As a parser based formatter, it expects valid PHP. If there is a syntax error, Prettier will stop and report it rather than return something half done.
Questions people ask
Does formatting change what my PHP does?
No. It only adjusts layout and spacing. The behaviour of your code is untouched.
What style does it follow?
A consistent, conventional PHP style in the spirit of PSR-12, the community coding standard, applied automatically.
Why did it refuse to format my code?
Prettier parses the PHP, so a genuine syntax error will stop it. Fix the error and it will format cleanly.
Is my code uploaded?
No. It runs in your browser, so the PHP you paste stays on your machine.
References
- PHP-FIG. PSR-12: Extended Coding Style. https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-12/
- Prettier. An opinionated code formatter. https://prettier.io/
Sugam Baskota is a senior software engineer and Computer Science graduate from UT Arlington, with interests in user scripts, browser extensions, developer tooling, and productivity systems. He spends time building practical utilities and extensions in the kinds of workflows Eon is designed to simplify. At Eon Tools, he reviews useful, password, and developer tools.