Description: ------------ I tried to get CodeSniffer working on Windows XP and hit the following problem: In file CodeSniffer.php around the line 224 is the following code: $className = substr($file, strpos($file, 'PHP/CodeSniffer/')); $className = substr($className, 26); $className = substr($className, 0, -4); $className = str_replace('/', '_', $className); But on Windows sometimes "\" (backslash) is used as directory separator, in which case the last str_replace doesn't do anything and when later an instance of the Sniffer class is created, then it fails, because the className still contains "/" Quick and easy fix is to change to code to deal with Windows directory separators as well: $className = str_replace('/', '_', $className); $className = str_replace("\\", '_', $className); After this change CodeSniffer started running on Windows as well

I think this report may be the same issue as bug #10751 (phpcs fails with fatal error). Can you confirm? I'll be looking into these Windows issues soon, but I have to find a Windows box to test on first.

Yes, bug 10751 describes the same issue

Or, rather, #10751 describes 2 separate issues - one is with Windows directory separators (which is the same as here) and another is about the linefeeds.

I'll be working on both issues in the other bug, so I'll mark this as a duplicate for clarity. Thank you for spending the time to report the bug and provide a patch.