prettier / prettier/plugin-php

PHP 8.5 not supported?

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Description

With PHP 8.5 the new pipe operator has been introduced.
Unfortunately it seems that prettier/plugin-php isn't able to format correctly and throws an error.

I have PHP 8.5 installed and I don't use composer, just plain old PHP.

2026-01-29T12:14:37+01:00 ERROR [project::lsp_store] Formatting failed: default prettier instance failed to format buffer: SyntaxError: Parse Error : syntax error, unexpected '>' on line 137
  135 |   {
  136 |     return array_map(fn($part) => trim($part, DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR), $parts)
> 137 |       |> fn(array $paths) => implode(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $paths)
      |       ^
  138 |       |> fn(string $path) => preg_replace("#" . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . "+#", DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $path);
  139 |   }
  140 | }
While handling prettier request: {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":3,"method":"prettier/format","params":{"text":"..snip..","options":{"plugins":[".../Zed/prettier/node_modules/@prettier/plugin-php/standalone.js"],"parser":"php","filepath":"some filepath","prettierOptions":{"tabWidth":2,"printWidth":100,"useTabs":false,"phpVersion":"auto"},"ignorePath":null}}}

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Reproduce the failure with prettier/plugin-php's standalone parser using the PHP 8.5 pipe-operator example and the shown parser options. Trace the PHP parser entry point for the unexpected token; done means the example formats successfully without a parse error.

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Issue type
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