PHP Tools for Visual Studio transparently integrate into Microsoft Visual Studio, and extend it with the support for PHP language. The extension is focused on developer productivity respecting conventions. It understands the code, provides smart code completion, quick navigation, error checking, code validation, code formatting, integrated PHP manual, built-in web server, debugging support, test explorer integration, composer package manager, and more.
• Respecting Visual Studio guidelines
• Automatic updates & Easy installation
• Version control support (TFS, Git, SVN, …)
• Seamless integration respecting conventions
• High-performance environment
Smart PHP editor
• Full PHP 5.4 - 8.2 support
• PHP IntelliSense
• HTML/CSS/JS support
• Smarty, Twig, Blade templating
• Real-Time Code Validation
• Shows embedded documentation
• Code Lens, semantic highlighting, and more!
Visual Debugging
• Breakpoints in PHP and JavaScript
• Inspect variables, watches
• Immediate Window
• Multiple session debugging
• Debug Inlines, and more!
HTML/JS/CSS support
• Visual Studio HTML Editor
• Syntax Highlighting, Schema validation
• Formatting, Outlining, Commenting
• Full IntelliSense
• Web Essentials support
Code Navigation
• Browse declarations within your solution
• Quickly search through available symbols
• Navigate directly to symbol definitions
• Navigate To, Class View, Object Browser, …
Integrated PHP manual
• PHP functions & constants & classes
• Integrated documentation
• Search available symbols while typing
• PHPDoc support
