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• January 19, 2025
• in annoucement
• 7 min read

Blade Language Support in VS Code (part 2)

In a previous blog post, we introduced the initial Blade editor support for Visual Studio Code. This support brought a seamless integration of PHP editor language features into Blade files. Users could enjoy enhanced productivity with features such as mouse tooltips, PHP code completion, inlay hints, refactorings, code actions, and intuitive navigation within their Blade templates. These features significantly improved the development experience for Laravel applications.

• December 15, 2024
• in tutorial
• 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).

• November 18, 2024
• 12 min read

Leveraging .editorconfig for Consistent Code Style Across Different IDEs

Maintaining a consistent code style is essential for any development team—not just for aesthetics but for readability and maintainability. Developers often use various IDEs, making it challenging to ensure that code adheres to the same standards. Thankfully, .editorconfig provides a unified way to enforce coding conventions across different development environments, including Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code and PhpStorm. In this post, we’ll explore how teams can utilize .editorconfig to keep their PHP code consistent and how to bridge the gap between different IDEs with ease.

• October 20, 2024
• in tutorial
• 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.

• May 23, 2024
• in general
• 10 min read

Blade Language Support in VS Code (Part 1)

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.

• February 27, 2024
• in annoucement
• 4 min read

IntelliPHP for IntelliJ - EAP

UPDATE (March 2024): IntelliPhp for IntelliJ is publicly available at plugins.jetbrains.com.

• December 28, 2023
• 9 min read

Improving debugging workflow with xdebug_notify

There are two camps when it comes to debugging PHP applications. One one side, we have the "echo tribe" relying on echo and var_dump for debugging output, while on the other side, the "IDE-wizards" leverage IDE's with Xdebug.

• December 7, 2023
• in tutorial
• 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
• in tutorial
• 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
• in tutorial
• 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.