Where in the PSR standards does it say to not have the variable name after the type declaration?

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Can anyone advise where in the PSR standards docs it documents that there should be nothing after the variable type in class member variables?

I used PHP CodeStyle Fixer by doing the following: php-cs-fixer fix MyConsoleCommand.php

...and it removed the variable from the docblock. I have been doing this for some time now and I believed this was correct and standards-compliant.

Can anyone confirm?

     /**
-     * @var SiteManager $siteManager
+     * @var SiteManager
      */
     private $siteManager;

     /**
-     * @var Registry $doctrine
+     * @var Registry
      */
     private $doctrine;

AFAIK PSR doesn't say anything about this... But it *is* redundant, so why keep it? — deceze, Jul 25 '16 at 08:29
Most (if not all) rules for phpdoc are tagged *symfony* so I guess they come from that Framework style guide and not PSR. That's particularly true here: **phpdoc_var_without_name [symfony]** — Álvaro González, Jul 25 '16 at 08:34

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 18 '16 at 03:31

By default all the levels are on and this particulair behaviour comes from the sympfony standard

phpdoc_var_without_name [symfony] @var and @type annotations should not contain the variable name.

see https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/PHP-CS-Fixer and search for "phpdoc_var_without_name"

if you don't want to use the Symfony standard do

php php-cs-fixer.phar fix MyConsoleCommand.php --level=psr2

hope it helps

Where in the PSR standards does it say to not have the variable name after the type declaration?

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