Sammy Powers has a new post to his site today showing you how to find and patch a bug in php-src, the source of the PHP language itself.

While he does provide all of the details in the post he also has created a screencast that walks you through the whole process as well. He breaks up the process into the different steps of the process:

• Find the bug (his was with the JSON handling)
• Submit a bug report (on bugs.php.net)
• Make a patch
• Run GDB
• Make a test
• Submit a PR and update the bug

He includes code and descriptions along the way and finishes out with further suggestions about feedback on the PR and how his own situation finished out.

On the PHP on Windows section of DZone.com, Eric Hogue looks at the PHPsrc extension for Eclipse - a handy tool that lets you run some of the common PHP QA tools right from the IDE.

PHPsrc is a plugin that allow you to run PHP_CodeSniffer, PHPUnit, PHP Depend and PHP Copy/Paste Detector directly in Eclipse. The site also says that more tools should come. As you work, you will see any transgression you make. That will save you from breaking the build, but it also makes it easier to fix the problem. After all, you just wrote the faulty lines of code.

He walks you through the install of the plugin and shows you how to set things up to point to the executables on your development environment (complete with some screenshots). There's even an example of the output for a particularly offensive (standards-wise, of course) piece of code.