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.
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:
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.
We are adding a new extension to the Visual Studio Code Marketplace - Composer All-in-One. Composer "All-in-One" provides complete integration of composer and packagist into Visual Studio Code. The extension provides quick composer commands, IntelliSense for composer.json, code lenses, code actions, schema validation, browsing and searching packages, checking abandoned packages, running user scripts, and it extends VS Code with composer tasks.
When you work with code that is deeply nested, it might get hard to know in what context the code is. You should follow good practices and not to create such a code, but sometimes the code is not yours or you are refactoring an old one. In such cases bracket, pair colorization comes in handy. Each bracket pair gets a different color, so you will have an easier job to orient yourself.
PHP Tools for VS Code extension keeps growing, and we're happy we can show off a lot of useful new improvements. Recently, we have added support for the new Laravel framework and annotations that Laravel uses, support for generics through DocComment @template tag, redesigned the PHPUnit integration, and more.
VS Code allows you to work remotely with the full-featured development environment. Even though you work remotely, you don't need to sacrifice all the great features available when you work locally - full Intellisense, navigation, refactoring, debugging and testing.
When I started to learn PHP years ago, I came across comments. What a controversial subject! Some programmers tend to comment their code, some don’t. Looking for answers, I went to the Internet to find a never-ending discussion on the topic:
The June 2022 relese of PHP Tools, the version 1.66, has been released. It brings the great Code Lens adornments into the PHP editor, the support for Eloquent local scopes to the PHP IntelliSense, improved inferring of generic types using class-string<T> annotation, and more!
Welcome to the May 2022 update of PHP Tools for Visual Studio. The release v1.65 introduces IntelliSense improvements, enhanced generics support, and mostly the new Debug Inlines and other editor neat improvements.
