Documentation recommends proprietary PHP LSP (Intelephense) without disclosure

[gajdusek]

Hello,

How to install the default language servers suggests a proprietary and closed LSP for PHP: Intelephense, without even disclosing its proprietarity.

If users follow the recommended npm install -g inelephense they unknowingly end with a proprietary software installed with a restrictive license they have never agreed upon and never got a chance to see, with a software hosted in private github repository.

It should suggest a FLOSS LSP or at least mention that this one is proprietary with the source code not available and a restrictive license to agree which is not displayed during installation.

Thank you, Petr

[the-mikedavis]

The Wiki is community editable - feel free to add a note about intelephense being proprietary and suggest a FLOSS language server there

[gajdusek]

Thanks for fast reply, didn't realize the wiki is community editable. I am in the process of finding a more free alternative and I will update the wiki with my findings.

[kirawi]

There is https://github.com/phpactor/phpactor

[mabasic]

I've added phpactor to the wiki here: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/How-to-install-the-default-language-servers#phpactor

[webdev23]

Beside that, did you manage to make phpactor works with Helix at all?

When starting phpactor alone, it looks alright:
[OK] Your system is ready to run the application.

By checking hx --health after the configuration in the languages.toml, it looks alright too:

                          DAP              Highlight       TextObject     Indent
php         ✓ phpactor    None             ✓               ✓               ✓     

However, within Helix, editing a PHP file, if i do gd for example, i got:

No configured language server supports goto definition

Etc. LSP doesn't work, get called properly, and it's not a path issue. Any ideas?

[lens0021]

If you open helix with verbose mode(hx -v) and type :log-open, you can see the error log.