🚀 PHP Autocomplete and Snippets

Supercharge your PHP development in VS Code with intelligent autocomplete and comprehensive snippets

Overview

A powerful VS Code extension that enhances your PHP development experience with intelligent autocomplete, code snippets, and productivity features. Designed to boost your coding efficiency and reduce development time.

✨ Features

🚀 Intelligent Autocomplete

• Context-aware code completion for PHP functions, classes, and methods
• Support for popular PHP frameworks (Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter)
• Automatic import suggestions for namespaced classes
• Type inference for better code suggestions

📋 Comprehensive Snippet Collection

• Class snippets: Create classes, interfaces, traits with proper namespace structure
• Function snippets: Quickly generate functions, methods, and closures
• Control structures: if/else, foreach, while, switch statements
• Framework-specific snippets: Dedicated snippets for Laravel, Symfony, and more
• Database snippets: PDO and MySQLi query helpers
• Testing snippets: PHPUnit and testing framework support

🔧 Productivity Tools

• PHPDoc generator with type inference
• Quick namespace imports
• Code formatting helpers
• Common code pattern shortcuts

📦 Installation

Method 1: VS Code Marketplace

1. Open VS Code
2. Go to Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+X / Cmd+Shift+X)
3. Search for "PHP Autocomplete and Snippets"
4. Click Install

Method 2: Command Palette

1. Press Ctrl+P (or Cmd+P on macOS)
2. Type ext install php-autocomplete-snippets
3. Press Enter
4. Reload VS Code when prompted

Method 3: Manual Installation

1. Download the extension package
2. In VS Code, go to Extensions
3. Click the "..." menu and select "Install from VSIX"
4. Select the downloaded package

🛠️ Configuration

The extension works out of the box but can be customized through VS Code settings:

{
  "phpAutocomplete.enableFrameworkSupport": true,
  "phpAutocomplete.snippetSuggestions": "inline",
  "phpAutocomplete.autoImport": true
}