Not working although following the guide

[ginomessmer]

I'm probably missing something out but I just basically installed the extension by following the guide and it's not working at all, I don't see any of the features just like in #170 . I'd appreciate if someone could take a look over it:

• PHP IntelliSense is currently installed
• PHP is up to date:

> php -v
PHP 7.1.10 (cli) (built: Sep 26 2017 20:07:27) ( ZTS MSVC14 (Visual C++ 2015) x86 )
Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies

• I installed this extension directly within VS Code
• I set php.executablePath correctly
• php.suggest.basic set to false
• I restarted VS Code but I can't seem to make use of any features. The dev console doesn't show any errors

That's basically everything the readme is telling me. What else could I have missed? Is there anything missing in the guide by any chance or is it just me?

[felixfbecker]

Weird. You don't see anything in the output channel "PHP Language Server"?

[ginomessmer]

Nope, not at all.

[ginomessmer]

@felixfbecker Since you added the needs more info label last week, is there anything I can provide you for further investigation?

[felixfbecker]

Just to be clear, you installed the IntelliSense extension? Your description only mentions PHP Debug

[ginomessmer]

I did yeah. I just noticed I mentioned the wrong extension although I was referring to your IntelliSense extension. It's been corrected now, sorry for any troubles.

[gustavosg]

In my case, it is installed the PHP Intellisense extension and PHP Extension Pack. But when i try to format, this shows to me in vs code:
"Sorry, but there is no formatter for 'php'-files installed."
Tried to reinstall your packages and this continues to appear. Your formatting suddenly stopped to work. No new packages installed.
My php version:
PHP 7.1.7 (cli) (built: Jul 6 2017 17:04:27) ( ZTS MSVC14 (Visual C++ 2015) x86 )
Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies
with Xdebug v2.5.5, Copyright (c) 2002-2017, by Derick Rethans

Edit: Fixed after deleting folder felixfbecker.php-intellisense-2.0.1 in %user_profile%.vscode\extensions and reinstalled

[viper9180]

Hi. i have the same problem as gustavosg but deleting the felixfbecker.php-intellisense-2.0.1 folder and reinstalling did not help. In version 1.5.4 the code formatting works great but after updating to 2.0.1 i get the message "Sorry, but there is no formatter for 'php'-files installed.".
Any suggestions please?

[sunverwerth]

The formatting library (phpcs) was removed from this extension because it had too many bugs.
We are planning on adding formatting features using Microsoft tolerant PHP parser's pretty print functionality once that becomes available.

In the meantime please install https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ikappas.phpcs

[JayBizzle]

I've to a similar issue.

Installed fine, i can see the context menus when right clicking method names, but i get no auto-completion suggestions

[ginomessmer]

@felixfbecker and others, I was able to resolve the issue 🎉

I installed the extension on my work device earlier today and it was working there. I had some thoughts and I just downloaded a fresh version of PHP 7 on my home device (that device which wasn't able to run the extension) and placed it in the same partition where VS Code is currently installed on. I went to the user settings and inserted

"php.validate.executablePath": "C:\\Program Files\\PHP\\7.0\\php.exe",
"php.executablePath": "C:\\Program Files\\PHP\\7.0\\php.exe",

as described in the guide. Don't forget to include the executable file name, too. Luckily, it's finally working and developing in PHP is actually fun again.

[mattwelke]

The solution @ginomessmer tried did not work for me. I'm on Linux, so I used the two settings with the value as "usr/bin/php" (since that's what's returned by running which php). I still get the message:

Sorry, but there is no formatter for 'php'-files installed.

[felixfbecker]

@Welkie formatting is not done by this extension anymore:
https://github.com/felixfbecker/vscode-php-intellisense#format-code

[mattwelke]

@felixfbecker My bad for not reading the readme first. Thanks!

Just wanted to add, for anyone looking for it, that when I installed the program and extension recommended in the readme (PHP CodeSniffer), it did not give me the "Format Document" feature. It gave me warning messages displayed under "PROBLEMS" and red underlines of the problems in my code. I found another program and extension for it, called PHP CS Fixer, which provided the Format Document feature (formats it according to PSR standards, customizable for others).

I find that the two tools actually work well together. PHP CodeSniffer gives you the inline linting and PHP CS Fixer gives you the formatting shortcut to quickly solve the linting problems.