Prettier-vscode: Not working for PHP

[jmperro]

Hello to all!
I've the latest version of the extension in vscode.
I've installed the prettier/plugin-php on the project folder.
I've restarted vscode several times.

The extension still not working, when I try to format a php file vscode ask me to install a formatter

Steps To Reproduce:

1. Install globally prettier and pretier-php (npm install --global prettier @prettier/plugin-php)
2. Install extension Prettier on VSCode
3. Install prettier and prettier-php on project folder (npm install prettier @prettier/plugin-php)
4. Restart VSCode
5. Open project, open a php file and run Format Document

Expected result

Prettier should format the document

Actual result

VSCode notification: "There is no installed formatter for php files"

VS Code Version: 1.40.1

Prettier & Prettier Plugin Version: Prettier: 1.19.1, Pretier/plugin-php: 0.11.2, prettier/prettier-vscode: 3.6.0

OS and version: Windows 10

[kachkaev]

Guess we're running in cycles here 😁 See https://github.com/prettier/prettier-vscode/issues/1055

[jmperro]

Evilebot Tnawi @evilebottnawi ask me to report an issue here.

[alexander-akait]

Before plugin works fine, after latest update is it not work, I didn’t investigate why, but I think the problem is here

[mean-cj]

I confirm normal install not work with vscode on windows version

Manual install prettier plugin on vscode

cd C:\Users\%username%\.vscode\extensions\esbenp.prettier*
yarn add --dev  @prettier/plugin-php

[David-Else]

I can recommend PHP Intelephense bmewburn.vscode-intelephense-client which has built in formatting, and is by far the best PHP extension. It had a huge amount of updates lately after the author took a years break, he removed the nag screen that stopped people using it, now it should do everything you might need it to.

[ntotten]

@mean-cj You definitely need to install both prettier and the plugins:

yarn add --dev  prettier @prettier/plugin-php

[ntotten]

I will try to repro this tonight when i can get on my windows machine.

[mean-cj]

Hello @ntotten

try prettier/prettier-vscode not format code if add prettier @prettier/plugin-php on global
yarn global add prettier @prettier/plugin-php

[jmperro]

Adding prettier plugin-php with yarn on the prettier extension folder works fine!

[ntotten]

@mean-cj Have you tried installing prettier in your project? Installing modules globally is not supported. Also installing modules in the extension folder is really not a good idea. That is going to get overwritten every time the extension gets updated.

[PranavBhattarai]

@mean-cj You definitely need to install both prettier and the plugins:

yarn add --dev  prettier @prettier/plugin-php

where exactly do I type this? (noob)

[theliveseven]

OS: macOS Catalina
VSCode: 1.40.2

I had the same problem. I had installed both prettier and @prettier/plugin-php globally.
I had to install both locally. It's working now.

Also make sure you set the default formatter for php as prettier

"[php]": { "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode" },

[theliveseven]

@mean-cj You definitely need to install both prettier and the plugins:

yarn add --dev  prettier @prettier/plugin-php

where exactly do I type this? (noob)

Open a command prompt in your project directory (press Ctrl + ` in vscode)
copy the command and press enter!

[ntotten]

I’ll try to work on global module support soon. This seems to be a fairly common request.

[ntotten]

I added global module resolution in version 3.13.0. Please try it out and let me know if you see any issues.

[kinosang]

@ntotten still not work with yarn global add prettier @prettier/plugin-php on Windows 10

[alexander-akait]

Please do not install prettier globally, different versions of prettier can do different format (same for plugins)

[benknight]

Not working for me, I have the packages installed locally, in package.json:

  "devDependencies": {
    "@prettier/plugin-php": "^0.14.0",
    "prettier": "^2.0.5"
  },

VSCode About:

Version: 1.44.2
Commit: ff915844119ce9485abfe8aa9076ec76b5300ddd
Date: 2020-04-16T17:07:18.473Z (2 wks ago)
Electron: 7.1.11
Chrome: 78.0.3904.130
Node.js: 12.8.1
V8: 7.8.279.23-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 19.4.0

[benknight]

I figured out what was going on. In .prettierrc I had my parser set to Babel, so it was attempting to parse PHP as Babel, which failed obviously.

Solution: delete the following line from .prettierrc

{
  // ...
  "parser": "babel",
  // ...
}

[henser]

Was having trouble with this exact issue. The culprit in my case was a misconfigured setting in the settings.json file (on mac, the settings config file is located in ~/Library/Application Support/Code/User)

The settings.json config file required the correct property "php.validate.executablePath". The value to be set to this property may vary depending on the PHP version you're using.

To get the correct path of your PHP executable on a mac, open a new terminal window (Cmd + Spacebar and write terminal) and type which php. The returned value should match the config property value.

settings.json example:

{
    // your other settings
    "php.validate.executablePath": "/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.3.8/bin/php"
}

[dev-roman-matviy]

Also make sure you set the default formatter for php as prettier

"[php]": { "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode" },

for me work this "php": { "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode" },

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