Error loading syntax files PHP.sublime-syntax about sublime-php-grammar

[gregrobson]

In case anyone else comes across this: the solution by @hamncheez (close all open files and relaunch ST) worked for me 👍

[akrabat]

Yes:

$ cd "Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages"
$ git clone [email protected]:gerardroche/sublime-php-grammar.git php-grammar

Start ST3: http://i.19ft.com/dea2332b.png

[absalan]

I had same issue for while and after little search, someone suggested ro remove CSS3 package. It's seems unrelated but after I removed that package, I got no more error.
Just simply remove CSS3 package from command palette.

[gerardroche]

Did you clone it into a folder named "php-grammar"? Though I don't think that should be an issue. I haven't been able to reproduce this error.

[akrabat]

Full output of console:

startup, version: 3092 osx x64 channel: dev
executable: /Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/MacOS/Sublime Text
working dir: /
packages path: /Users/rob/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages
state path: /Users/rob/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Local
zip path: /Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/MacOS/Packages
zip path: /Users/rob/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages
ignored_packages: ["PHP", "Vintage"]
ignoring deprecated syntax definition: Packages/SublimeLinter/fixed-syntaxes/HTML/HTML.tmLanguage
ignoring deprecated syntax definition: Packages/SublimeLinter/fixed-syntaxes/Rails/HTML (Rails).tmLanguage
pre session restore time: 0.188089
using gpu buffer for window
first paint time: 0.251901
startup time: 0.27714
error: Error loading syntax file "Packages/PHP/PHP.sublime-syntax": Unable to read Packages/PHP/PHP.sublime-syntax
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plugins loaded
SublimeLinter: debug mode: off 
SublimeLinter: phpcs activated: /Users/rob/bin/phpcs 
SublimeLinter: php activated: /usr/local/bin/php 
Package Control: Skipping automatic upgrade, last run at 2015-06-04 12:45:21, next run at 2015-06-04 13:45:21 or after

[gerardroche]

Thanks.

I reproduced a dialog error about the syntax loading when I cloned php-grammar while ST was open. When I restart ST the error goes away, but I'm testing on a clean install of ST without all those plugins. There must be plugin conflict somewhere.

[gerardroche]

The latest ST3 dev releases are causing major issues with syntaxes:

http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18613

[akrabat]

I get the error on a completely clean install of ST3 build 3092 with just php-grammar cloned into the Packages folder.

Further testing shows that it happens when I have an open PHP file in my session on start up.

[gerardroche]

Yep. I get that too. ST doesn't seem to apply the new syntax properly. Once you close the open files and restart is everything ok?

[akrabat]

Seems so, yes. Thanks.

[gerardroche]

Yep. Everytime I open a project that has an existing workspace I get errors and all opened files don't have any syntax highlighting. This is not good.

[gerardroche]

I've added a PHP.sublime-syntax version of the language definition for newer versions.

It seems to fix the loading syntax errors. And also fixes some issues with phtml files not being highlighted properly in the newer ST releases.

[wbond]

I believe this is a general session serialization "issue" in Sublime Text. The session stores the syntax used, however if you had opened a PHP file, then disable PHP, the syntax will no longer be available when the session is re-loaded.

For instance, Package Control works around this during package upgrades by switching views to Plain Text before upgrading a package containing a syntax def in use. Then after the upgrade, it switches them back. Similar things happen for color schemes and themes.

[akrabat]

Thanks @gerardroche - no more error message!

[wbond]

Ok, so the issue was that it wouldn't load the custom PHP.tmLanguage in place of the stock PHP.sublime-syntax?

[gerardroche]

No, it did load PHP.tmLanguage, ST is just throwing dialog errors with the message:

error loading syntax file "Packages/PHP/PHP.sublime-syntax": Unable to read Packages/PHP/PHP.sublime-syntax

It does this whenever there is previous session with open files that had a different syntax definition file applied to it.

For example, if you install a new syntax, open a project and open some files for that syntax, close the project, remove the syntax and now open the project again you get errors about not being able to load the syntax. It's the same error message if you install a syntax that overrides another and do the above steps.

--- edit ---

All the open files with have no syntax highlighting when the error occurs. Once the files are closed and opened the new syntax is applied and everything is ok.

[ainstushar]

Can we re-open this? I think my issue is similar. Sublime 3083. Installed the plugin, and it complained that php syntax file wasn't available. Restarted Sublime, no syntax highlighting for .php files (status bar indicated that this file was using php syntax). So I am not sure what's going on.

Any way that I can help? Let me know how to provide you with logs.

[gerardroche]

@ainstushar open the console Menu > View > Show Console the log is in the console output. Are you on windows, osx, linux? What version of php-grammer do you have? Check by listing the package control packages: Command Palette: Package Control: List Packages.

Also, try closing all open files, then close sublimetext, then open it and open some php files and see if the syntax highlighting is fixed.

[ainstushar]

Win 7, latest php-grammar (installed it yesterday).

I think I have narrowed down the problem. When php-snippets is enabled, it loses syntax highlighting. When I disable it, and re-open the file, syntax highlighting is back on with php-grammar. I installed all packages (grammar, completions, snippets) yesterday.
Log with php-snippets enabled and I opened a file. I don't see any missing packages. sublimelinter (php) tells me that there are no errors.

DPI scale: 1
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working dir: /C/Program Files/Sublime Text 3
packages path: /C/Users/ainstushar/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Packages
state path: /C/Users/ainstushar/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Local
zip path: /C/Program Files/Sublime Text 3/Packages
zip path: /C/Users/ainstushar/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages
ignored_packages: ["CSS", "JSCS-Formatter", "PHP", "SublimeLinter-jscs", "SublimeLinter-jshint", "Vintage"]
pre session restore time: 0.211135
startup time: 0.236135
first paint time: 0.245135
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SublimeLinter: debug mode: on 
SublimeLinter: temp directory: c:\users\ainstushar\appdata\local\temp\SublimeLinter3-ainstushar 
Package Control: Skipping automatic upgrade, last run at 2015-11-03 08:11:34, next run at 2015-11-03 09:11:34 or after
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SublimeLinter: csslint version query: C:\Users\ainstushar\AppData\Roaming\npm\csslint.cmd --version 
SublimeLinter: csslint version: 0.10.0 
SublimeLinter: csslint: (>= 0.10) satisfied by 0.10.0 
SublimeLinter: csslint activated: C:\Users\ainstushar\AppData\Roaming\npm\csslint.cmd 
SublimeLinter: php activated: C:\Users\ainstushar\AppData\Local\php-5.6\php.exe 
SublimeLinter: chdir not set or invalid, using C:\Users\ainstushar\Documents\GitHub\DoctorD\wp-content\themes\drd 
SublimeLinter: php: header.php ['C:\\Users\\ainstushar\\AppData\\Local\\php-5.6\\php.exe', '-l', '-n', '-d', 'display_errors=On', '-d', 'log_errors=Off'] 
SublimeLinter: php output:
No syntax errors detected in - 

Hopefully this helps.

[ainstushar]

Actually ignore above part. It seems that some files have syntax highlighting and some don't. php-snippets doesn't seem to be the issue. I think the issue is related to HTML syntax highlighting in .php files.

Example: I got 2 files. functions.php and header.php. Sublime's php is disabled, your grammar, snippets, and completions are enabled. There is syntax highlighting in functions.php but not in header.php. header.php mostly contains HTML vs functions.php has no HTML. Shouldn't php-grammar have HTML syntax highlighting? I have to manually select HTML syntax highlighting when I open .php files. Is the solution to open all php files with HTML syntax on? Because sublime will do syntax highlighting just fine for php components with HTML syntax styling enabled.

Sorry for the confusion. Please let me know if there are any questions.

[gerardroche]

@ainstushar This is fixed in the latest ST build: 3095. The way language syntaxes are handled in ST has been rewritten. In ST versions prior to 3084 the HTML syntax was the default syntax for php files. In >= 3084 this has been fixed. It's not possible for php-grammar to fix it. If you can, use the latest build 3095, it has so many more fixes. Also, many php-grammar fixes and improvements will only work in >=3095. See #39 and https://github.com/gerardroche/sublime-php-grammar/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

[ainstushar]

Yep, it works on 3095. Thanks for the thorough and detailed response. :)

[hamncheez]

Build 3103 not working. All php autocompletes not working, no syntax highlighting in .php files, but works fine in .html , .phtml , and .ctp files. Uninstalled/reinstalled sublime, php-grammar, still no luck. Any ideas?

[gerardroche]

@hamncheez the native php completions and snippets are disabled when you install php-grammar. They are provided as individual packages: PHP Completions and PHP Snippets. See the PHP Grammar installation guide.

@hamncheez the no syntax highlighting issue in .php files. Does the issue persist after you close all open views and then restart Sublime Text?