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Do you have PHP 7 installed and in your PATH?

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Oh... I have PHP 5.3.8.
Does it depend on PHP 7?

Also, I don't have it in the PATH env. variable.
Can I instead have it in a workspace setting (I had some bad experiences with the PATH variable reaching max length in the past and it would be nice to avoid adding it there)?

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New info:

By adding the PHP 5.3.8 path in my user's PATH env. variable caused this error:

The PHP Language Client server crashed 5 times in the last 3 minutes. The server will not be restarted.

And this 5 times in the output:

Connection to server got closed. Server will restart.

I guess my PHP version is not supported. :(

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The language server (basically a process that runs in the background and provides completion etc) uses latest PHP features of PHP 7. You can still develop your app in whatever version you need, but the language server currently needs PHP 7 installed in your PATH.

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OK.
Thanks! :)

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I have a suggestion on this:

I think it would be very good if you provided a VSCode setting for the path of PHP 7.
The PATH environment variable tends to clutter with paths and reach its max length very often. :(
I would like to use a portable version of PHP 7, if that was possible, and only define the path from inside the VSCode. :)
I see other extensions do this:

"php.validate.executablePath": "C:\Program Files\php-7.0.11\php.exe",

That's just a suggestion. :)

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See #11, should be easy to implement, PR welcome

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OK.
This is my first time trying to do anything serious with Node but I will give it a shot.
Any idea why I get this error when I run the build task? :

Error: Cannot find module 'c:\Users\user\Desktop\php-intel\node_modules\vscode\bin\compile'

I guess, that without solving this I cannot do anything... :(

I did a :

npm install vscode

...but the generated folder only contains install and test, no compile. :(

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I now see the main page of the project :

composer install
npm install
npm run compile
code .

Let me try with this one...

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OK.
I have followed the steps but I used a small variation because I have a tendency of not installing things but have them portable:

php composer.phar install <- Here I did it differently - hopefully it's the same...
npm install
npm run compile

It seems that it compiled the extension and it works, but I got this error :

12 error Windows_NT 10.0.14393
13 error argv "C:\\Program Files\\node-v4.6.0\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\node-v4.6.0\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "run" "compile"
14 error node v4.6.0
15 error npm  v2.15.9
16 error code ELIFECYCLE
17 error [email protected] compile: `node ./node_modules/vscode/bin/compile -p ./`
17 error Exit status 2
18 error Failed at the [email protected] compile script 'node ./node_modules/vscode/bin/compile -p ./'.
18 error This is most likely a problem with the php-intellisense package,
18 error not with npm itself.
18 error Tell the author that this fails on your system:
18 error     node ./node_modules/vscode/bin/compile -p ./
18 error You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
18 error     npm bugs php-intellisense
18 error Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
18 error
18 error     npm owner ls php-intellisense
18 error There is likely additional logging output above.

Donno if you have seen this before...

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Is there no other error output? It apparently did not compile the extension. Do you have an out dir created? Do you have node in your path? Also, try a newer Node / NPM version.

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These are the only lines that start with error, :(
But it does generate the out folder and the extension files and the test folder with its contents.
The extension seems to work as well when debugging.
So, not sure what this is... :^)
Anyway.
Maybe it's something small.
Maybe something I did previously is not be very correct.
But the extension seems to work so far when debugging, so I can probably try adding that setting (if I discover how to access its value). :)

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if I discover how to access its value

Found it! :)

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OK.
I have created a Pull Request! :)
That was a very interesting experience for me!

First time writing NodeJS code, first time writing TypeScript, first time working on a VSCode extension (debugging is cool!), first time working with Composer, second time touching NPM and node.exe.

You may find the changes bigger than expected.
If you don't like them, I have no problem if you turn them down. ;)

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Some possible improvements:
The variables php7Found and errorList might not be needed.
I have imported fs thinking I should check if the file (php.exe) exists on the given paths, but I haven't used it.
And also the linter doesn't seem to like my coding style... :(

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I have tried to make the linter happy by fixing many issues, but it still nags for some reason.
Not sure what it wants anymore... :(
#18
Other than that the fix seem working and the code seems clean to me.

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