New Features in Visual Studio (April 2023)
There are exciting new updates, new features, and fixes in PHP Tools extension for Visual Studio! See what's new:
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What's New - PHP Tools for Visual Studio (March 2023)
We're happy to introduce updates to our PHP extension for Visual Studio! Version 1.72 introduces Inlay Hints, new Code Actions, improved code analysis, improved support for Doc Comments with extended syntax for Psalm and PHPStan type names and keywords, and more!
What's New - PHP in Visual Studio Code (February 2023)
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!
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.
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.
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.
Create PHP Project using Composer in VS Code
You know composer is a framework for maintaining PHP packages - installing them as a dependency to your project, ensuring their requirements, auto-loading classes, and much more. But you can also create a new PHP project directly from a composer package, easily. In Visual Studio Code it's even simpler.
Generics in PHP using PHP DocComments
Most of the type-safe languages, like TypeScript, C++, C#, Java, ... or Hack, .. allow you to specify not just types but also so-called generic type arguments - a way of substituting a type name with an actual type when you use it. PHP lets you to specify types for extra type-safety (and improved code completion), but generic types need to be specified inside Doc Comments. That's because the PHP language syntax itself does not know them yet.
Fix PHP Warning: vcruntime140.dll 14.0 is not compatible with this PHP build
I got an email from a user asking for help. He couldn't debug PHP application he was working on. After a little digging, we found out that he couldn't even run PHP. When executed it stopped immediately with a warning:
Performance Profiling PHP with VS Code
Your PHP application or a website might be running fluently, or you might see it takes some time to load. In both cases, it is a good practice to do performance profiling. This technique lets you know how much time all the functions in the code take, and how many times they've been called. You might see interesting results and improve the live of your users, and the live of your Web Server.