Blade template language is an important part of Laravel development. It combines XML/HTML, Blade Statements, and PHP language! This blog post is not about Blade development itself, but rather what we (as the authors of PHP extension for VS Code) can provide you to make the development easier.
We're continuously adding new and new features to both the Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio IDEs. Today we're going to summarize recently added features for PHP developers in Visual Studio Code!
For custom software development, the Laravel framework is quite popular. It is the most popular PHP framework on Github, with over 56,000 developers worldwide appreciating its powerful features. Why is Laravel so well-liked? It provides the necessary tools to develop websites and web apps faster, more stable, and simple to maintain.
Tool-tips are a common feature of modern code editors and IDEs. They display available information about a symbol under the mouse cursor, and during the code completion. Check out, what you can do with tool-tips in a PHP language in Visual Studio.
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.
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:
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.
PHP is highly popular- it has become almost impossible for all web developers not to have at least a working knowledge of PHP. This article is aimed to help those who are beginning with PHP, but are willing to make extra efforts to excel in the field.
