Magento 2 coding standards phpcs giving , ERROR: Referenced sniff "PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.RemovedFunctions" does not exist

Question

when I am running the command to check phpcs issues,

 vendor/bin/phpcs --standard=Magento2 /filepath/


    ERROR: Referenced sniff "PHPCompatibility.FunctionUse.RemovedFunctions" does not exist
    Run "phpcs --help" for usage information

how to fix this?

Answer 1

To fix this issue add below code to composer.json file

 "scripts": {
    "post-install-cmd": [
      "([ $COMPOSER_DEV_MODE -eq 0 ] || vendor/bin/phpcs --config-set installed_paths ../../magento/magento-coding-standard/,../../magento/php-compatibility-fork)"
    ],
    "post-update-cmd": [
      "([ $COMPOSER_DEV_MODE -eq 0 ] || vendor/bin/phpcs --config-set installed_paths ../../magento/magento-coding-standard/,../../magento/php-compatibility-fork)"
    ]
}

and run

composer update 

This will fix your issue

Thank you!

Answer 2

You can run below command to fix the issue,

composer require "phpcompatibility/php-compatibility:dev-develop" --with-all-dependencies

It will add all required dependencies and fix the error you are facing.

Let me know it this solution works!