Installation guide - Visual Studio Code - Successful

[adrianvintu]

Visual Studio Code configuration

Go to https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/PHP-CS-Fixer#installation and download the phar file
Link used to be https://cs.symfony.com/download/php-cs-fixer-v2.phar

File->Preferences->Settings
At north-east, there are two icons, one says "Open Settings" and will show you the settings in json mode. . Add your paths.

    "phpformatter.phpPath": "c:\\wamp\\bin\\php\\php7.4.9\\php.exe",
    "phpformatter.pharPath": "c:\\php_formatter\\php-cs-fixer.phar",
    "phpformatter.logging": true,
    "phpformatter.arguments": [
        "--rules=@PSR2"
    ],

The phpformatter.arguments PSR2 is required, seems to be a bug.

Debug info is visible here (phpformatter.logging):
View -> Command Palette ->Developer: Toggle Developer Tools -> Console

and looks like this:

console.ts:137 [Extension Host] PHPFormatter: Tempfile fd: 5
console.ts:137 [Extension Host] PHPFormatter: Tempfile name: c:\temp\phpfmt-21316hI7z3XLclzvd.tmp
console.ts:137 [Extension Host] PHPFormatter: Writing current document content to temp file. Until VSCode will have a way of querying encoding, utf8 will be used for reading and writing.
console.ts:137 [Extension Host] PHPFormatter: Full command being executed: "c:\wamp\bin\php\php7.4.9\php.exe" "c:\php_formatter\php-cs-fixer.phar" fix "c:\temp\phpfmt-21316hI7z3XLclzvd.tmp" --rules=@PSR2

Test that php-cs-fixer is installed:

php C:\php_formatter\php-cs-fixer.phar fix sample.php

I gathered this info from all the tickets. I hope it helps you.

[wardds]

Thank you, the fact that the log output goes to vscode's javascript console (NOT the dedicated "output" console where other language servers' output goes) was the key for me to fix my installation. (Personally I had picked up some outdated arguments which caused the command to fail)

The logging output is actually fairly good, printing the full attempted command and its error output.