PHP Code Sniffer not working: Interface 'PHP_CodeSniffer_Sniff' not found Follow

Hello,

Does it work fine when running Code Sniffer from command line?

Good question, Vladimir.
No, it does not.
Something with running

php composer.phar update

or anything similar I forgot for CodeSniffer to work?

I would suggest to follow installation steps from https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer again, just to be sure.

I've just installed PHP_CodeSniffer and the moodle-local_codechecker, following the given instructions, and I'm having the same issue. PhpStorm outputs the following error:

phpcs: PHP Fatal error:  Interface 'PHP_CodeSniffer_Sniff' not found in /vagrant/public/local/codechecker/moodle/Sniffs/Commenting/InlineCommentSniff.php on line 27

I'm running Moodle on a LEMP vagrant box with PHP 7.0.22 and PHP_CodeSniffer version 3.1.0 (stable).

Did you find any solution to this problem?

Hi,

Do you also have issues with running it via command line?

No I couldn't get the moodle-local_codechecker plugin to work with PHP_CodeSniffer via the CLI either.

I eventually got it all working by installing the php-codesniffer package via Ubuntu. I had previously been installing it via composer and that didn't seem to work when used in conjunction with the moodle-local_codechecker plugin.

Thanks for sharing that!

Note to myself, the steps to circumvent the error and getting phpcs to work

brew uninstall --force php-code-sniffer
brew install php-code-sniffer@2.9
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php-code-sniffer@2.9/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
ln -s /usr/local/opt/php-code-sniffer@2.9/bin/phpcs /usr/local/bin/phpcs

Luca - you saved me a lot of time here. Remind me to buy you a beer at Moodle Dach 2018!