Paste minified or messy PHP code and get a properly indented, readable version in one click. Lightweight in-browser formatter — no install, no upload.
PHP code that's been minified, copied from a one-line eval, or written sloppily becomes hard to read and harder to maintain. A formatter applies consistent indentation, line breaks after semicolons and inside braces, and proper alignment. Professional PHP projects use tools like PHP-CS-Fixer or Prettier; for quick one-off cleanups in the browser, this lightweight formatter does the basics.
Paste your PHP into the textarea and click Format. The tool walks the code character by character, adds line breaks after every semicolon and around every brace, and indents using 2 spaces per nesting level. The cleaned output is shown in a code block ready to copy.
Use it when reviewing PHP from a Stack Overflow answer, cleaning up a one-line eval, formatting code pasted from a chat or email, or quickly making sense of an obfuscated snippet. For full-fledged PHP projects, install PHP-CS-Fixer locally — it follows PSR-12 standards exactly.
For production work, set up Prettier or PHP-CS-Fixer with a pre-commit hook so all code is formatted automatically. Use this tool as a quick cleanup, not a coding-standards enforcer. The PSR-12 official PHP coding standard uses 4-space indentation and is what most modern PHP frameworks expect.
It does basic indentation only. For PSR-12 compliance use PHP-CS-Fixer locally.
No — it only reformats. Syntactically broken PHP will format with the broken structure preserved.
It's a defensible default for browser display. PSR-12 requires 4 spaces; adjust manually if needed.
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