When IIS Express isn’t sufficient for your development needs and you need to get an full-fledged IIS web server for your PHP project, you can now configure it in matter of few clicks.
PHP 8 represents a big milestone for developers, frameworks, and content management systems like WordPress. It introduces several new language constructs, that are not backward compatible with previous versions of PHP, it deprecates some functions, and there are some new eventual issues you should be aware of.
PHP 8 represents a big milestone for developers, frameworks, and content management systems like WordPress. It introduces several new language constructs, that are not backward compatible with previous versions of PHP, it deprecates some functions, and there are some new eventual issues you should be aware of.
PHP 8 introduces a new syntax, more functions, and new standards. Let's have a look at how the editor in Visual Studio helps with those features. It will provide a detailed completion for named arguments, validates their use, checks the new syntax, warns about deprecations, and more.
Even tho PHP 8 was officially released on November 26, 2020, you could already use its new syntax with PHP Tools before that date, and install PHP from sources. Now the release is available for the Windows platform and it can be installed on your development machine in an easy way.
The latest update of PHP Tools brings a lot of improvements and fixes for PHP in Visual Studio since 2010 up to the latest Visual Studio 2019. We're keen to show you a few of them.
We are keeping updating PHP Tools for VS Code. Scroll down and check out new features and improvements, we have added for the VS Code development platform.
There have been a lot of updates and improvements to PHP Tools on VS Code. Check what's new and how it can help you with your PHP projects.
We are happy to announce the public availability of updated PHP Tools for Visual Studio. The release brings features and enhancements for developing in PHP using Microsoft Visual Studio.
In this tutorial I'm going to demonstrate how to setup remote debugging in PHP Tools for Visual Studio. The remote system in this example is running on Ubuntu, but it can be any Linux or Windows system.
