Visual Studio Code: Unable to locate phpcs

Question

I am facing this issue in Visual Studio Code. I have already tried reinstalling the phpcs extension but still facing this issue.

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Answer 1

I had the same issue on my Mac in Visual Studio Code (I used PEAR to install PHPCS). I do not know why but PHPCS couldn't find autoload.php of CodeSniffer. You can try to type on terminal command line:

$ phpcs

I got an error:

Warning: include_once(PHP/CodeSniffer/autoload.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/david/pear/bin/phpcs on line 14

Warning: include_once(): Failed opening 'PHP/CodeSniffer/autoload.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:') in /Users/david/pear/bin/phpcs on line 14

Solution:

Open Pear Bin folder in your user folder, e.g. in my case: /Users/david/pear/bin/ in Finder,

Find phpcs file inside and edit it (e.g. in Visual Studio Code :),

You will find these lines there:

if (is_file(__DIR__.'/../autoload.php') === true) {
    include_once __DIR__.'/../autoload.php';
} else {
    include_once 'PHP/CodeSniffer/autoload.php';
}

Add two new lines there with the proper location of CodeSniffer/autoload.php file (place it before } else { line and modify the path according to your needs - replace "david" with your user name...):

} else if (is_file('/users/david/pear/share/pear/PHP/CodeSniffer/autoload.php')) {
    include_once '/users/david/pear/share/pear/PHP/CodeSniffer/autoload.php';

So the final code of the condition is:

if (is_file(__DIR__.'/../autoload.php') === true) {
    include_once __DIR__.'/../autoload.php';
} else if (is_file('/users/david/pear/share/pear/PHP/CodeSniffer/autoload.php')) {
    include_once '/users/david/pear/share/pear/PHP/CodeSniffer/autoload.php';
} else {
    include_once 'PHP/CodeSniffer/autoload.php';
}

Then save it and restart Visual Studio Code. That's it.