PHP Programming in VS CodeVisual Studio Code is a great editor for PHP development. You get features like syntax highlighting and bracket matching, IntelliSense, and snippets out of the box and you can add more functionality through community created VS Code extensions. Show SnippetsVisual Studio Code includes a set of common snippets for PHP. To access these, hit LintingVS Code uses the official PHP linter ( There are three settings to control the PHP linter:
To set the PHP executable path, open your User or Workspace
Settings and add the
ExtensionsThere are many PHP language extensions available on the VS Code Marketplace and more are being created. You can search for PHP extensions from within VS Code by running the Extensions: Install Extension command ( DebuggingPHP debugging with XDebug is supported through a PHP Debug extension. Follow the extension's instructions for configuring XDebug to work with VS Code. Next StepsRead on to find out about:
Welcome to the updates of PHP Tools for Visual Studio Code! Debug AdornmentsThe editor should always help with the daily routines such as the debugging. Newly PHP developers can take advantage of currently debugging statement adornments with inline values. PHP debugger choses variables and expressions you might be interested in during debugging and displays their values right in the editor. This allows to quickly focus on the context of the application and see what's happening! Note, debugger won't evaluate variables on the left side of an assignment = operators, or more complex expressions which might have a side-effect. It shows entries of arrays the code is about to access, control variables of loops, and function parameters. Read more at https://blog.devsense.com/2022/php-vs-code-debugging-adornments. VSCode on the WebHave you heard about the Visual Studio Code for the Web? It's the code editor running in your browser, allowing to work with your local files, files on your GitHub repositories, or files on Azure. Anywhere. Newly, PHP Tools can be installed on this web development environment. See blog.devsense.com/2022/php-intellisense-web for more details! EditorLaravel FacadesLaravel framework is known for it's use features like Service Containers, use of class aliases, and Facades. This allows for seamless dependency injection and basically shorter code you have to write.
Newly, the editor is recognizing built-in and your custom facades, it recognizes the facade accessors service, it recognizes defined services as well. Also, the editor scans the workspace for Laravel class aliases defined in Here, the editor knows that the class
Code Completion & @ignoreNewly, functions annotated with
Settingseditor.linkedEditingNewly the
PHP editor supports linked rename of local variables. By enabling php.debug.portNew setting
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