Magento 2 – Fix bin/magento No Commands Working – Class ‘Cli’ Not Found Error

If you get the error "Decoding failed: Syntax error" I would check the module's composer.json file. For me this has happened a couple of times due to a comma that is not needed inside the require parameters.

If your composer file has this:

"require": {
    "php": "~5.6.0|7.0.2|~7.0.6",
    "magento/module-catalog": "101.0.*",
    "magento/module-checkout": "100.1.*",
},

You will see this error every time. Instead, remove the comma on your last required value. It should now look like this.

"require": {
    "php": "~5.6.0|7.0.2|~7.0.6",
    "magento/module-catalog": "101.0.*",
    "magento/module-checkout": "100.1.*"
},

I haven't tested but this error would probably happen for each parameter if the last value has a comma at the end.

This error has nothing to do with Plesk it's from the Magento script itself. Whoever wrote it clearly has no idea of PHP OOP. Sorry but it's true.

There's nowhere to be found an "use" keyword in the script but you can clearly see that he's trying to use

  Cli

class without specifying the namespace. That's the whole error if you change it to

  Magento\Framework\Console\Cli

it will work.

Change the bin/magento shell file from:

#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php
/**
 * Copyright © 2013-2017 Magento, Inc. All rights reserved.
 * See COPYING.txt for license details.
 */

if (PHP_SAPI !== 'cli') {
    echo 'bin/magento must be run as a CLI application';
    exit(1);
}

try {
    require __DIR__ . '/../app/bootstrap.php';
} catch (\Exception $e) {
    echo 'Autoload error: ' . $e->getMessage();
    exit(1);
}
try {
    $handler = new \Magento\Framework\App\ErrorHandler();
    set_error_handler([$handler, 'handler']);
    $application = new Magento\Framework\Console\Cli('Magento CLI');
    $application->run();
} catch (\Exception $e) {
    while ($e) {
        echo $e->getMessage();
        echo $e->getTraceAsString();
        echo "\n\n";
        $e = $e->getPrevious();
    }
    exit(Cli::RETURN_FAILURE);
}

to

#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php
/**
 * Copyright © 2013-2017 Magento, Inc. All rights reserved.
 * See COPYING.txt for license details.
 */

if (PHP_SAPI !== 'cli') {
    echo 'bin/magento must be run as a CLI application';
    exit(1);
}

try {
    require __DIR__ . '/../app/bootstrap.php';
} catch (\Exception $e) {
    echo 'Autoload error: ' . $e->getMessage();
    exit(1);
}
try {
    $handler = new \Magento\Framework\App\ErrorHandler();
    set_error_handler([$handler, 'handler']);
    $application = new Magento\Framework\Console\Cli('Magento CLI');
    $application->run();
} catch (\Exception $e) {
    while ($e) {
        echo $e->getMessage();
        echo $e->getTraceAsString();
        echo "\n\n";
        $e = $e->getPrevious();
    }
    exit(\Magento\Framework\Console\Cli::RETURN_FAILURE);
}

Take a look at the exit at the end...

Sorry if I offended somebody ;]