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ERROR: Referenced sniff "XXXX" does not exist. After upgrading to 5.3.0 #422

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ERROR: Referenced sniff "XXXX" does not exist. After upgrading to 5.3.0#422
cakephp/app
#1060

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@kolorafa
kolorafa
opened on Sep 19, 2025

After removing dereuromark/cakephp-ide-helper from app project, we got those upgrades:

  • Upgrading cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer (5.2.2 => 5.3.0)
  • Upgrading slevomat/coding-standard (8.22.1 => 8.23.0)
  • Upgrading squizlabs/php_codesniffer (3.13.4 => 4.0.0)

It results in:

 ./vendor/bin/phpcs
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Arrays.TrailingArrayComma" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Functions.RequireTrailingCommaInDeclaration" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Functions.RequireTrailingCommaInClosureUse" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Functions.RequireTrailingCommaInCall" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Functions.DisallowTrailingCommaInDeclaration" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Functions.DisallowTrailingCommaInClosureUse" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Functions.DisallowTrailingCommaInCall" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Classes.ClassConstantVisibility" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Classes.EmptyLinesAroundClassBraces" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Classes.ModernClassNameReference" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Commenting.DisallowOneLinePropertyDocComment" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Commenting.DocCommentSpacing" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Commenting.EmptyComment" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Commenting.InlineDocCommentDeclaration" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.ControlStructures.AssignmentInCondition" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.ControlStructures.DisallowContinueWithoutIntegerOperandInSwitch" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.ControlStructures.DisallowYodaComparison" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.ControlStructures.LanguageConstructWithParentheses" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.ControlStructures.NewWithParentheses" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.ControlStructures.RequireNullCoalesceOperator" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Exceptions.DeadCatch" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Namespaces.AlphabeticallySortedUses" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Namespaces.FullyQualifiedClassNameInAnnotation" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Namespaces.NamespaceDeclaration" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Namespaces.ReferenceUsedNamesOnly" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Namespaces.DisallowGroupUse" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Namespaces.UnusedUses" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Namespaces.UseDoesNotStartWithBackslash" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Namespaces.UseFromSameNamespace" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Namespaces.UseSpacing" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.PHP.ShortList" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.PHP.TypeCast" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.PHP.UselessParentheses" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.PHP.UselessSemicolon" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.TypeHints.DeclareStrictTypes" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.TypeHints.LongTypeHints" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.TypeHints.NullableTypeForNullDefaultValue" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.TypeHints.ParameterTypeHint" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.TypeHints.ParameterTypeHintSpacing" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.TypeHints.ReturnTypeHint" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.TypeHints.PropertyTypeHint" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.TypeHints.DNFTypeHintFormat" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Classes.PropertyDeclaration" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.TypeHints.ReturnTypeHintSpacing" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Variables.DuplicateAssignmentToVariable" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Variables.UnusedVariable" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Functions.NamedArgumentSpacing" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Functions.ArrowFunctionDeclaration" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Attributes.AttributeAndTargetSpacing" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Attributes.RequireAttributeAfterDocComment" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Classes.BackedEnumTypeSpacing" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.ControlStructures.RequireShortTernaryOperator" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.TypeHints.ReturnTypeHint.MissingNativeTypeHint" does not exist.

the same with phpcbf

$ ./vendor/bin/phpcbf 
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Arrays.TrailingArrayComma" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Functions.RequireTrailingCommaInDeclaration" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Functions.RequireTrailingCommaInClosureUse" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Functions.RequireTrailingCommaInCall" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Functions.DisallowTrailingCommaInDeclaration" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Functions.DisallowTrailingCommaInClosureUse" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Functions.DisallowTrailingCommaInCall" does not exist.
ERROR: Referenced sniff "SlevomatCodingStandard.Classes.ClassConstantVisibility" does not exist.

Changing composer.json for cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer from ^5.0 to 5.2.*

  • Downgrading cakephp/cakephp-codesniffer (5.3.0 => 5.2.2)
  • Downgrading slevomat/coding-standard (8.23.0 => 8.22.1)
  • Downgrading squizlabs/php_codesniffer (4.0.0 => 3.13.4)

And problem ofc disappears.

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