vscode-intelephense VS php-mode

I'm going to use intelephense to show the minimal configuration needed to setup a language server in Neovim.

This is the most important extension to install for PHP support. It provides a fast language server that adds code completion, go to definition, formatting, and more. You can also purchase a license at Intelephense, which I highly recommend. It adds some additional features like renaming symbols and other code actions.

You need to get the code, and use an IDE to help like vs code + PHP Intelephense (https://intelephense.com/)

I bought a license key to Intelephense https://intelephense.com/, and added the key as described in the documentation and several blog posts (at least I think I'm doing it right), however the paid features (e.g. rename symbol) don't work.

I'm quite happy with Emacs, coming from PhpStorm, using intelephense.com premium. I highly recommend.

Follow this guide to configure and add PHP Intelephense.

The error itself is the VSCode extension Intelephense, that is usually very helpful when writing PHP in VSCode, telling you that there is an error with an Undefined type ... after you have followed the steps outlined here in detail to install the permissions package on your Laravel app.

Furthermore, depending on which integrated development environment (IDE) you use, your editor detects the strict_types and warns you inside the editor before running your code. For example, I use the Intelephense extension inside Visual Studio Code, which warns me about wrong parameters before I run the code, like so:

Helix should use Intelephense by default, so if you install that, it should work out of the box. You can find installation instructions here 🙂

Look at either Intelephense or Devsense as plugins and you'll get a close to IDE level experience.

Have you installed https://github.com/emacs-php/php-mode ?

If you configure a VM to use as a web server, emacs can be a nice PHP editor. That way you could install Ubuntu Server on VM software, set up a LAMP stack, and SSH into it from your desktop terminal (I find this to be a nicer interface than working directly on the VM).

php-mode is pretty good combined with lsp-mode. If you are editing PHP files with only PHP script I would go with php-mode. If you are using PHP files with a lot of HTML and PHP I would recommend using web-mode together with the PHP language server.

I opened an issue on the php-mode GitHub repo for this very reason, you can take a look here: https://github.com/emacs-php/php-mode/issues/657. Hopefully that'll give you some workarounds at least until the bug is fixed.