Visual Studio Code and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL): those represent a great couple for developing a PHP application such as Laravel inside a virtual Linux environment. This tutorial describes installation of WSL (version 2) on Windows 10, setting up PHP with debugging capabilities in there, creating a Laravel project, and getting your VS Code ready to debug the PHP project in WSL.
The recent updates to PHP Tools for VS Code introduces new features and improvements. Read more about the new test explorer, debugging improvements, code actions, and more.
Read the news about new features in PHP 8.1 and PHP Tools for Visual Studio - RegEx, PHP 8.1 enumerations, PHP 8.1 installation, etc.
Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) are integral part of most PHP applications. Therefore it's important to make developing with them easy and transparent. PHP Tools for Visual Studio 2019 introduces several neat features making the editing and testing such expressions a fluent experience. The features are the following:
There are several reasons why to have multiple PHP installations locally. You might have one old project that requires PHP 5.6 (already end of line since January 1st 2019), the other project in PHP 7.1 and one more project in PHP 7.4 which you are upgrading to PHP 8.0.
There are several reasons why to have multiple PHP installations locally. You might have one old project that requires PHP 5.6 (already end of line since January 1st 2019), the other project in PHP 7.1 and one more project in PHP 7.4 which you are upgrading to PHP 8.0.
Let's take a look on the April's news and updates for PHP Tools in Microsoft Visual Studio.
Read the latest updates for PHP Tools in Visual Studio Code. We have been working on improving the performance, fixing debugging support, and providing more editor features as well.
In this blog post I would like to demonstrate how to install Laravel in Visual Studio. I will use new project wizard which we have in PHP Tools for Visual Studio.
