[error] No files matching the pattern were found: "path/to/file.php".

[Shamo84]

so I installed this plugin globally with:

npm install --global prettier @prettier/plugin-php

but when I run prettier path/to/file.php --write

i get this error:
[error] No files matching the pattern were found: "path/to/file.php".

[czosel]

Hi @Shamo84, I wasn't able to reproduce the issue:

$ npm install --global prettier @prettier/plugin-php


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$ prettier foo.php
<?php

if (true) {
    echo "foo";
}
$ prettier foo.php --write
foo.php 7ms
$ cat foo.php 
<?php

if (true) {
    echo "foo";
}

Can the file path be resolved when you replace prettier with any other command, e.g. ls?

[dantemogrim]

I'm getting a similar message using the package as a devDependency with Yarn:

$ yarn run prettier path/to/file.php --write

# Output:
# [error] No parser could be inferred for file: path/to/file.php

[andrei-dascalu]

Same issue for me.

Tried with node 20.4.0 with either yarn 1.22.19 or npm 9.7.2 under macos
Also tried with node 18.16.1 with either yarn 1.22.19 or nom 9.6.6 under alpine linux

fresh global install in all cases, the next call to prettier <file in current folder> results in No parser could be inferred for file

[Nyholm]

Try use prettier 2.8.8 instead of 3.0

[jdeniau]

Hi @Shamo84 , I ran into a similar issue, and if you use prettier 3, you need to explicitly enable the plugin by passing --plugin @prettier/plugin-php in the cli, or "plugins": ["@prettier/plugin-php"] in your prettier file.

See #2215 (comment)