PHP Better Snippets 🇧🇷

Hi PHP Developers 👋!

This extension provides code snippets and boilerplates for PHP and Symfony framework, enabling you to code faster and be more productive.

Features

The snippets follow the fluent interfaces and Type declarations standard.

Extension Settings

• php-better-snippets.enable-symfony-snippets (boolean, default true): controls whether the Symfony-related snippets (controllers, Doctrine, Messenger, Scheduler, Symfony attributes) are suggested. Set it to false if you only work with plain PHP projects and want a shorter suggestion list.

PHP Snippets:

• php: PHP open tag
• #: PHP Attribute
• ex: New 'execute' function
• __ / pubc: PHP constructor
• inv / pubinv: PHP __invoke function
• set: Setter
• get: Getter
• sg: Getter and Setter
• wget: Getter without 'get' prefix
• wsg: Getter and Setter without 'get' prefix
• fnc: Function
• fnc: Function without visibility
• fn: Anonymous function
• st: Static function
• prf: Private function
• json / pubjson: jsonSerialize function
• fname: Current filename
• is: Boolean method
• pv: Private property (old)
• pp: Public property (old)
• pvr: Private readonly property (old)
• pbr: Public readonly property (old)
• ?: PHP ternary conditional
• c: PHP constant
• c: PHP typed constant
• throw: PHP throw new Exception
• $t: Access variable in $this ($this-><name>)
• $t=: Assign to variable in $this ($this-><name> = <value>;)
• *: Start multiline Comment (/** <your-code> **/)
• pubf: Public function
• privf: Private function
• prof: Protected function
• pubsf: Public static function
• privsf: Private static function
• prosf: Protected static function
• apubf: Public abstract function
• aprof: Protected abstract function
• pubp: Public property
• pubp: [PHP 8.4] Public private(set) property (asymmetric visibility)
• pubp: [PHP 8.4] Public protected(set) property (asymmetric visibility)
• pubp: [PHP 8.4] Public property (with get) (property hooks)
• pubp: [PHP 8.4] Public property (with set) (property hooks)
• pubp: [PHP 8.4] Public property (with get/set) (property hooks)
• privp: Private property
• privp: [PHP 8.4] Private property (with get) (property hooks)
• privp: [PHP 8.4] Private property (with set) (property hooks)
• privp: [PHP 8.4] Private property (with get/set) (property hooks)
• prop: Protected property
• prop: [PHP 8.4] Protected private(set) property (asymmetric visibility)
• prop: [PHP 8.4] Protected property (with get) (property hooks)
• prop: [PHP 8.4] Protected property (with set) (property hooks)
• prop: [PHP 8.4] Protected property (with get/set) (property hooks)
• pubrp: Public readonly property
• privrp: Private readonly property
• prorp: Protected readonly property
• pubsp: Public static property
• privsp: Private static property
• prosp: Protected static property
• class: PHP class
• rclass: Readonly PHP Class
• fclass: Final PHP Class
• abclass: Abstract PHP Class
• pubtest: PHP public function test (for unit tests)
• match: PHP match expression
• matchvar: PHP match assignment
• returnmatch: PHP match return
• pubtostring / tostring: Public __toString
• phpc: PHP Class with namespace
• phprc: Readonly PHP Class with namespace
• phpfc: Final PHP Class with namespace
• phpac: Abstract PHP Class with namespace
• trait: New PHP Trait with namespace
• service: New PHP Service with execute method, with namespace
• name: PHP Namespace
• interface: New PHP interface, with namespace
• enum: PHP Enum, with namespace
• benum: PHP Backed Enum, with namespace
• phpex: New PHP exception class, with namespace

Symfony Snippets:

• route: Symfony Route attribute
• route: Symfony Route annotation
• dd: dd (alternative to Symfony dd function with dump and die)
• controller: Symfony Controller (annotations)
• controllerJson: Symfony Controller and return Json (annotations)
• controller: Symfony Controller (attributes)
• controllerJson: Symfony Controller and return Json (attributes)
• form: Symfony Form Class
• normalizer: Symfony Custom Normalizer Class (old versions)
• normalizer: Symfony Custom Normalizer Class (Symfony ^6.*)
• denormalizer: Symfony Custom Denormalizer Class (Symfony old versions)
• denormalizer: Symfony Custom Denormalizer Class (Symfony ^6.4)
• command: Symfony Console Command (Symfony ^6.4)
• command: Symfony Console Command (Symfony from 5.X to 6.3)
• command: Symfony Console Command (Symfony old versions)
• test: PHPUnit Test class

Symfony Attributes:

• asCommand: Symfony AsCommand attribute
• isGranted: Symfony IsGranted attribute
• isCsrfTokenValid: Symfony IsCsrfTokenValid check
• autowire: Symfony Autowire attribute
• autowireParam: Symfony Autowire attribute (param)
• autowireEnv: Symfony Autowire attribute (env)
• when: Symfony When attribute
• asTaggedItem: Symfony AsTaggedItem attribute

Symfony Doctrine Snippets:

• ormCol: Symfony Doctrine ORM Column (attributes)
• ormCol: Symfony Doctrine ORM Column (annotations)
• ormId: Symfony Doctrine ORM auto generated id column (annotations)
• ormId: Symfony Doctrine ORM auto generated id column (attributes)
• ormManyTo: Symfony Doctrine ORM Many To[One|Many] Relation (attributes)
• ormManyTo: Symfony Doctrine ORM Many To[One|Many] Relation (annotations)
• ormOneTo: Symfony Doctrine ORM One To[One|Many] Relation (attributes)
• ormOneTo: Symfony Doctrine ORM One To[One|Many] Relation (annotations)
• ormJoinCol: Symfony Doctrine ORM Relation Join Column (annotations)
• ormJoinCol: Symfony Doctrine ORM Relation Join Column (attributes)
• orm: Import Doctrine ORM Mapping class
• embeddable: Embeddable (annotations)
• embeddable: Embeddable (attributes)
• embedded: Embedded (annotations)
• embedded: Embedded (attributes)
• ormRepo: Symfony Doctrine ORM repository, with namespace
• ormEntity: Symfony Doctrine ORM Entity class (attributes), with namespace
• ormEntity: Symfony Doctrine ORM Entity class (annotations), with namespace

Symfony Messenger Snippets:

• asMessageHandler: Symfony Messenger AsMessageHandler attribute
• asMessage: Symfony Messenger AsMessage attribute
• message: Symfony Messenger Message class (readonly), with namespace
• messageHandler: Symfony Messenger Message Handler class, with namespace

Symfony Scheduler Snippets:

• cronTask: Symfony Scheduler Cron Task (AsCronTask), with namespace
• periodicTask: Symfony Scheduler Periodic Task (AsPeriodicTask), with namespace
• scheduleProvider: Symfony Scheduler Schedule Provider (AsSchedule), with namespace

About namespace generation:

The namespace is dynamically resolved at runtime based on the project's composer.json PSR-4 autoload configuration. The extension searches for the nearest ancestor composer.json, then locates the autoload.psr-4 or autoload-dev.psr-4 entry whose directory-base is the most specific ancestor of the current file. The namespace is then composed as: PSR4Prefix + relativePathFromEntry.

If no composer.json exists or no PSR-4 entry covers the file, the namespace field in the snippet is left empty for manual editing — there is no fallback to folder-based heuristics.

Since the namespace is filled in automatically, the cursor never stops there when a snippet expands — it's inserted as plain text (or left empty, for manual editing, when it can't be resolved), so tabbing through the snippet only visits the parameters you actually need to fill in (class name, method body, etc.).

Release notes:

See ./CHANGELOG.md

Contribution guide:

See ./CONTRIBUTING.md

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