Sublime Text 3 Error: Warning. PHP 5.6 or newer is required. Please, upgrade your local PHP installation

Question

I started getting this error in Sublime Text 3 when saving files:

Warning. PHP 5.6 or newer is required. Please, upgrade your local PHP installation.

I am using Sublime SFTP as well. I am not using local XAMP environment but did install php 5.6 on my local machine (MacOSX) to try and fix the problem. I also reinstalled all packages related to PHP, but the error persists.

Answer 1

So I ran into this same issue on my computer, but the thing is I most definitely have PHP 5.6 installed:

After looking at the phpfmt package's default settings I notices a commented out line:

// "php_bin":"/usr/local/bin/php",

It looked like a way of hardcoding the path to your php binary.

I installed php 5.6 via homebrew so I knew the binary was stored in an atypical location, so I:

• Copied the commented out line
• Opened my User specific settings for the phpfmt bundle
• Pasted it in
• Uncommented the line
• Got the path to my 5.6 binary via the command which php
• Pasted that path in to my user settings
• Saved

No more error and the package still formats per psr standards.

So, just for clarity, my User specific settings for the phpfmt bundle:

Look like this:

{
    "psr2": true,
    "version": 1,
    "php_bin":"/usr/local/opt/php56/bin/php", // change this path to whatever the path to your local php 5.6 binary 
}

Answer 2

Thanks for pointing me to the right direction @hungtd. I tried

"php55warning": false
"php56warning": false
"php55compat": true

but none worked.

The solution I found was this: manually edit phpfmt.py file (Sublime Menu > Browse Packages > phpfmt) and comment out line 230:

# sublime.message_dialog('Warning.\nPHP 5.6 or newer is required.\nPlease, upgrade your local PHP installation.')

No more dialogs on saving :)

Answer 3

Click on Menu > Preferences > Browse Packages

Then you will find "phpfmt" Folder. You will find "phpfmt.py" file in that.

Comment following lines ( Probably Line no: 745,746,747)

if err.decode('utf-8'):
    ret += ("phpfmt (php version) err:\n"+err.decode('utf-8'))
    ret += "\n"

And it Works!