ruleset.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ruleset name="Joomla">
 <description>The Joomla coding standard.</description>

 <!-- Include all sniffs in an external standard directory -->

 <!-- Include some additional sniffs from the Generic standard -->

 <rule ref="PEAR.Classes.ClassDeclaration"/>
 <rule ref="Squiz.Classes.SelfMemberReference"/>

 <rule ref="PEAR.Commenting.InlineComment"/>

 <rule ref="Squiz.CSS.ColonSpacing"/>
 <rule ref="Squiz.CSS.DuplicateClassDefinition"/>
 <rule ref="Squiz.CSS.EmptyClassDefinition"/>
 <rule ref="Squiz.CSS.EmptyStyleDefinition"/>
 <rule ref="Squiz.CSS.MissingColon"/>
 <rule ref="Squiz.CSS.SemicolonSpacing"/>

 <rule ref="Generic.Files.LineEndings"/>
 <rule ref="Generic.Files.LineLength"/>
 <rule ref="Zend.Files.ClosingTag"/>

 <rule ref="Generic.Formatting.DisallowMultipleStatements"/>
 <rule ref="PEAR.Formatting.MultiLineAssignment"/>

 <rule ref="Generic.Functions.FunctionCallArgumentSpacing"/>
 <rule ref="PEAR.Functions.ValidDefaultValue"/>

 <rule ref="PEAR.NamingConventions.ValidClassName"/>
 <rule ref="Generic.NamingConventions.UpperCaseConstantName"/>

 <rule ref="Generic.PHP.DisallowShortOpenTag"/>
 <rule ref="Generic.PHP.DeprecatedFunctions"/>
 <rule ref="Generic.PHP.ForbiddenFunctions"/>

 <rule ref="Squiz.Operators.IncrementDecrementUsage">
  <exclude name="Squiz.Operators.IncrementDecrementUsage.processAssignment"/>
 </rule>
 <rule ref="Squiz.WhiteSpace.ScopeClosingBrace"/>

 <rule ref="Squiz.Scope.StaticThisUsage"/>

 <!-- Lines can be 85 chars long, but never show errors -->
 <rule ref="Generic.Files.LineLength">
  <properties>
   <property name="lineLimit" value="150"/>
   <property name="absoluteLineLimit" value="0"/>
  </properties>
 </rule>

 <!-- Use Unix newlines -->
 <rule ref="Generic.Files.LineEndings">
  <properties>
   <property name="eolChar" value="\n"/>
  </properties>
 </rule>

 <!-- This message is not required as spaces are allowed for alignment -->
 <rule ref="Generic.Functions.FunctionCallArgumentSpacing.TooMuchSpaceAfterComma">
  <severity>0</severity>
 </rule>

</ruleset>