vscode-intelephense VS vscode-php-debug

Intelephense is a "freemium" LSP. While it provides basic functionality for free, features like variable renaming and code actions require a $25 USD lifetime license.

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 🙂

Yes looks like this is related to https://github.com/xdebug/vscode-php-debug the max_data settings, so it should be configured under felixfbecker.php-debug

Now the set up for VS Code to actually use the debugger you need first to install the following extension.

I've no idea what your IDE is, but you can have a look at https://github.com/xdebug/vscode-php-debug or just invoke var_dump()

A large task was the No-folder debugging. This is when VS Code has the purple status bar, no folder is open at that time, and so no launch.json file is available. I was actually brought to my attention by Microsoft's VS Code PM. We had a conf call and discussed what can be done to make PHP debugging in VS Code simpler. Especially the initial setup.

This is a small writeup on the May 2021 release of VSCode PHP Debug adapter extension. A cover issue describing all work can be found on GitHub issues.