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• March 24, 2025
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• 5 min read

Vibe Coding getting smarter with PHP diagnostics

PHP Extension works seamlessly with Cursor—the popular AI-powered code editor. With the PHP extension, you get a full suite of features, including code completion, intelligent code actions, an integrated debugger, advanced syntax highlighting, and effortless navigation. But that’s not all! It also offers workspace-wide code analysis and detailed diagnostics. Plus, these features are fully compatible with the AI chat agent, creating a powerful coding experience.

• January 22, 2025
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• 9 min read

Profile Laravel in Visual Studio Code

Performance always matters. Your Laravel application might be beautifully designed and written, but there's always the possibility of hidden bottlenecks. Is it unnecessarily slow? Can it be optimized further? Sometimes, a single function can consume most of your CPU time. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to profile your Laravel application in Visual Studio Code to uncover and address these issues.

• December 15, 2024
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• 5 min read

Automate Code Fixes through Visual Studio Code Auto-Fix Feature

The PHP editor with PHP Tools extension provides vast array of useful code actions - either code fixes or inline code refactorings. What if you always prefer the fix or the specific refactor (like simplifying ?: operator or removing unnecessary ?> tag whenever possible).

• October 20, 2024
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• 5 min read

Format Multiple PHP Files with Preview

The PHP extension for Visual Studio Code comes with an exhaustive code formatting built-in (see docs). There is a vast array of parameters to configure your custom code style, predefined code styles for common standards, and all of this with ability to only format selection, format-on-type, format-on-save, and newly - format multiple PHP files at once, with preview.

• December 7, 2023
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• 6 min read

WordPress IntelliSense and Linting

Version 1.42 of the PHP extension for VS Code includes WordPress Stub. What does it mean? The editor will recognize all the standard WordPress functions, constants, and classes. It provides code analysis, IntelliSense, AI inline code suggestions, and type analysis.

• November 15, 2023
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• 3 min read

Sort Uses and Remove Unused Uses on PHP File Save (Organize Uses on Save)

PHP extension for Visual Studio Code comes with tons of code actions and code diagnostics! One of them sorts and removes unused uses:

• September 21, 2023
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• 6 min read

PHP Language Level in VS Code

PHP is an old language, powering majority of the Internet. It's evolving, it's getting new features, better performance, and old features are being depreciated and sometimes even removed.

• December 5, 2022
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• 17 min read

Find and Replace with regular expressions in VS or VS Code is a superpower

When you want to edit a bulk of the text in markdown, text files, JSON or other file types, Find and Replace feature of VS or VS Code can help a lot.

• November 16, 2022
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• 9 min read

How to install and configure Xdebug for XAMPP on Mac

XAMPP is a very popular cross-platform Apache distribution containing MariaDB (fork of MySQL), PHP, and Perl. But unfortunately, XAMPP doesn't come bundled with the Xdebug, which is an extension that enables PHP debugging. This tutorial shows one way how to get it on Mac - we will be compiling Xdebug from sources.

• November 3, 2022
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• 26 min read

Start with Laravel in VS Code on Docker

Imagine you are part of the team and you want each member to develop in one standardized environment. They can have different operating systems and use different development tools or IDEs, but you want to have one unified environment with all the required dependencies.