PHP Codesniffer phpcs: ERROR: the squizlabs/php_codesniffer/CodeSniffer.conf.dist coding standard is not installed in PhpStorm [closed]

Question

I have a Drupal 8 installation where I want to use the squizlabs/php_codesniffer with PhpStorm.

I installed phpcs with Composer by following this documentation from Drupal itself https://www.drupal.org/docs/contributed-modules/code-review-module/installing-coder-sniffer#s-composer-installer-plugin. I installed it with this command composer global require drupal/coder dealerdirect/phpcodesniffer-composer-installer which also installs squizlabs/php_codesniffer. At this point everything is working and phpcs is installed in my users .composer folder.

When I execute phpcs --config-show I get this output: (version 3.6.1)

Using config file: /Users/myusername/.composer/vendor/squizlabs/php_codesniffer/CodeSniffer.conf

installed_paths: /Users/myusername/.composer/vendor/drupal/coder/coder_sniffer,/Users/myusername/.composer/vendor/sirbrillig/phpcs-variable-analysis

Looks fine in my opinion.

PhpStorm version 2021.2.2

Next step was setting up CodeSniffer in PhpStorm which I did like this:

CodeSniffer was validated and seems to be OK. PhpStorm as well recognized the Drupal coding standard as you see here:

When I save all the settings and open a File I get this error message in the PhpStorm Event Log:

11:51   PHP_CodeSniffer
        phpcs: ERROR: the "/Users/myusername/Sites/projects/features/vendor/squizlabs/php_codesniffer/CodeSniffer.conf.dist" coding standard is not installed. The installed coding standards are PEAR, Zend, PSR2, MySource, Squiz, PSR1, PSR12, Drupal, DrupalPractice and VariableAnalysis
        Open PHPCodeSniffer Inspection Settings 

I have absolutely no idea why it needs to check the projects php_codesniffer and why this coding standard needs to be installed. Does somebody have an idea why this could be happening? I tried clearing PhpStorm Cache but that didn't help.

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

I managed to fix it myself. For those who still need a solution I need to disappoint you. I just deleted my project and installed it again. After that the error doesn't appear anymore. This proves that phpcs or Drupal isn't the issue. It was my project setup.