phpactor: Undefined variable "$this" on a fresh Laravel project

[Rusydy]

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I just create a new Laravel project using Laravel 11, then I go to console.php. I found that the $this is labelled as undefined.

• why is that?
• I would like to solve it, but I am not sure where to start in this case. May I ask for guidance?

Environment

Darwin Users-MacBook-Pro.local 24.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.0.0: Tue Sep 24 23:37:13 PDT 2024; root:xnu-11215.1.12~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8112 arm64

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[RemcoSmitsDev]

Hey @Rusydy, this is not something we could fix inside Zed. This is a shortcoming of the phpactor language server, it does not understand that Laravel bound the closure under the hood. So it's correct that it shows that $this is not defined, because you are not inside a class scope where $this is always bound to that class instance.

Even if you make it clear that the closure is bound to a class, phpactor does not get it.
See the following example:

<?php

final class SomeClass {
    public function returnSomeThing() {
        echo "Some string";
    }
}

$someClass = new SomeClass();

$closure = function() {
    return $this->returnSomeThing(); // `$this` is still not defined accordingto phpactor.
};

$boundClosure = Closure::bind($closure, $someClass);

echo $boundClosure(); // will echo "Some string"

[Rusydy]

@RemcoSmitsDev what can I do to help?
is it need an improvement in Zed or phpactor side?

[RemcoSmitsDev]

No it has nothing to do with Zed, see this issue on the phpactor repo. It's the same issue that you have, it's only with Pest the testing framework.