Cursor Skills PHP

CURSOR-SKILLS - PHP

Source: cursor-skills/php

CURSOR setup

• PHP Intelephense, PHP Debug (Xdebug), PHP DocBlocker, Composer.
• Laravel Blade / Symfony / WordPress snippets per project.

Typical structure

project/
├── app/     ├── config/     ├── public/     ├── resources/
├── tests/   ├── vendor/     ├── composer.json   ├── composer.lock   └── .env

Required standards

• PSR: PSR-1, PSR-2/PSR-12, PSR-4 (autoload).
• Composer: always for deps; composer.lock; autoload; separate dev deps.
• Tools: PHP CS Fixer, PHPStan, PHPUnit, Xdebug.

By framework

• Laravel: Artisan, Eloquent, MVC, middleware, validation, PHPUnit, Laravel security.
• Symfony: Bundles, services, DI, PHPUnit, Symfony security.
• WordPress: Coding standards, hooks/filters, plugin/theme architecture, WP tests.

Code and documentation

• PHPDoc on classes and methods; comments on complex logic; README and API docs.

Security

• Validate and sanitize inputs; prepared statements; CSRF; secure auth; OWASP; password hashing; HTTPS.

DB

• Normalization, indexes, FKs, naming conventions; prepared statements; avoid N+1; transactions.

REST APIs (in PHP)

• REST, correct HTTP codes, versioning, JSON; auth, rate limit, CORS, HTTPS.