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Guillaume Bois
Guillaume Bois

Reputation: 1331

Intellij failed to detect file type

I have intellij 13.1.3 Ultimate and have been using it for my PHP projects. All my files.php are nicely hightlighted for php.

This morning I had to create a new file called "report.php". At first I create it with right click > new > file, but this gave me no hightlighting. So I deleted it and tried again with a right click > new > php file with same result. Now what ever the way I create it, it thinks the file is txt (it seems so) and there is no code highlighting. It's pretty frustrating.

I have tested the creation of a new file with a different name "reports.php" but this time with right click> new > PHP file, and it came nicely highlighted. i tried to rename the file to "report.php" but it came back to no highlighting!!

It seems Intellij is stuck with the name report.php being a type text.

I tried to delete the file, restart the IDEA, recreate it the right way, no luck. I tried power save mode on, and off. No luck. I tried File > invalidate cache/restart, ... no luck.

I'm out of options here...

Is there a way to FORCE intellij to interpret a file? Is the name "report" a reserved word?!?!?

How can it be so stupid...

edit: I also tried the suggestion in : IntelliJ: how to force editor to treat a file as javascript? but php is not in the list of the Template data language

Also in settings > file types, I saw two Php file entries. One with no extention, and one properly configured. I deleted the bad one but it reappears after a restart of the IDEA!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 322

Answers (1)

yole
yole

Reputation: 97148

Please go to Settings | Editor | File Types and remove the association of "report.php" with the text file type. (The erroneous association was created because of a bug in IntelliJ IDEA, but unfortunately we don't currently have specific steps to reproduce for it.)

Upvotes: 2

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