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Reputation: 35410

Compile-time PHP errors in VSCode

Has anyone configured VS Code to show syntax/semantic errors in PHP development? Coming from full Visual Studio/C# world, I really miss this thing a lot. Currently I actually have to call my PHP function using a client, only to get a HTTP 500 error and then check server logs to see what went wrong. This is a huge pain. Going through all of this only to find for example that I didn't import a require namespace, is so frustrating.

I understand that PHP by design cannot detect all kinds of errors like C# at compile time (so to speak), but detecting functions that do not exist or not passing required parameters should be easy to catch.

Is there a plug-in or setting in VS Code that could handle syntax/semantic error in PHP code? I'm using Laravel on the server-side, if that matters.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7121

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 35410

Looks like I found something. I uninstalled PHP Intellisense extension this morning and installed PHP Intelephense and all seems to be far better. Not only that the syntax and semantic errors are highlighted, it automatically injects required namespaces too. And if that were not enough, Go To Definition (F12) command has started working correctly all of a suden. :)

Must-have extension for any PHP work in VSCode I'd say.

Upvotes: 2

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