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Is there anyway to get PHP intellisense in VS2013? I love me some Visual Studio, but since we do our web apps in laravel... I have had to abandon it for the tim

by janson0 13y ago

Is there anyway to get PHP intellisense in VS2013? I love me some Visual Studio, but since we do our web apps in laravel... I have had to abandon it for the time being.

rubberband 13y ago
I've had decent results with the PHP Tools extension: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/8292e47d-8ed2-48cb-9ebd-064e0b7891cf?SRC=VSIDE http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/8292e47d-8ed2-.... There is also the VS.Php extension, but it's not free, and seems a little less polished.
- janson0 13y ago
  Thanks so much for the reply. I will take a look!
profquail 13y ago
DevSense makes a nice PHP extension for Visual Studio (http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/8292e47d-8ed2-48cb-9ebd-064e0b7891cf http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/8292e47d-8ed2-...). It's not free, but it's inexpensive. On a related note, DevSense has also taken over development the Phalanger project (a PHP compiler/runtime for .NET). It's Apache 2.0-licensed and on GitHub if you're interested: https://github.com/DEVSENSE/Phalanger https://github.com/DEVSENSE/Phalanger DevSense does provide some free tools for VS if you're using Phalanger, maybe they'd be good enough for what you want: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/419916fb-ec89-4f18-ba97-75cf66037797 http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/419916fb-ec89-...
- janson0 13y ago
  Thanks so much for the reply. I will take a look!
shanselman 13y ago
Try Webmatrix also, it has PHP intellisense and is a really nice little PHP IDE.
bullseye 13y ago
I know you weren't asking for other IDE recommendations, but I thought I'd give you perspective from someone who is almost exclusively a VS user and loves the IDE (well, up to VS2010, or VS2012 with 2010 colors and icons). When it comes to the occasional PHP project, I just use an IDE geared toward PHP development. Admittedly, it has been a while, but when I tried using PHP extensions for VS in the past, debugging, unit tests, etc... all seemed to require a ton of effort or didn't quite work the way I wanted them to. I would have loved to use VS for all development, but in this case, I felt like the tool was too weighty and not quite compatible. In my particular case, I use Netbeans because it is free, lightweight, and it just works. My projects are more portable to other non-VS developers and adding PHPDocs and PHPUnit support was really easy. I'm sure there are other good IDEs as well.

by janson0 13y ago

Is there anyway to get PHP intellisense in VS2013? I love me some Visual Studio, but since we do our web apps in laravel... I have had to abandon it for the time being.

rubberband 13y ago

I've had decent results with the PHP Tools extension: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/8292e47d-8ed2-48cb-9ebd-064e0b7891cf?SRC=VSIDE http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/8292e47d-8ed2-.... There is also the VS.Php extension, but it's not free, and seems a little less polished.

janson0 13y ago
Thanks so much for the reply. I will take a look!

profquail 13y ago

DevSense makes a nice PHP extension for Visual Studio (http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/8292e47d-8ed2-48cb-9ebd-064e0b7891cf http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/8292e47d-8ed2-...). It's not free, but it's inexpensive. On a related note, DevSense has also taken over development the Phalanger project (a PHP compiler/runtime for .NET). It's Apache 2.0-licensed and on GitHub if you're interested: https://github.com/DEVSENSE/Phalanger https://github.com/DEVSENSE/Phalanger DevSense does provide some free tools for VS if you're using Phalanger, maybe they'd be good enough for what you want: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/419916fb-ec89-4f18-ba97-75cf66037797 http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/419916fb-ec89-...

janson0 13y ago
Thanks so much for the reply. I will take a look!

shanselman 13y ago

Try Webmatrix also, it has PHP intellisense and is a really nice little PHP IDE.

bullseye 13y ago

I know you weren't asking for other IDE recommendations, but I thought I'd give you perspective from someone who is almost exclusively a VS user and loves the IDE (well, up to VS2010, or VS2012 with 2010 colors and icons). When it comes to the occasional PHP project, I just use an IDE geared toward PHP development. Admittedly, it has been a while, but when I tried using PHP extensions for VS in the past, debugging, unit tests, etc... all seemed to require a ton of effort or didn't quite work the way I wanted them to. I would have loved to use VS for all development, but in this case, I felt like the tool was too weighty and not quite compatible. In my particular case, I use Netbeans because it is free, lightweight, and it just works. My projects are more portable to other non-VS developers and adding PHPDocs and PHPUnit support was really easy. I'm sure there are other good IDEs as well.