vscode-intelephense
PHP intellisense for Visual Studio Code (by bmewburn)
vscode-phpactor
Phpactor VS Code Extension (by phpactor)

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vscode-intelephense | vscode-phpactor | |
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27 | 3 | |
1,747 | 156 | |
0.9% | 3.2% | |
7.2 | 8.0 | |
5 months ago | 3 days ago | |
TypeScript | TypeScript | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
vscode-intelephense
Posts with mentions or reviews of vscode-intelephense.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-12-22.
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Setting up neovim for Laravel development
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.
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A guide on Neovim's LSP client
I'm going to use intelephense to show the minimal configuration needed to setup a language server in Neovim.
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VSCode for PHP and Laravel
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.
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Finding source codes? Whatβs the easiest way? (Me=noob)
You need to get the code, and use an IDE to help like vs code + PHP Intelephense (https://intelephense.com/)
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Intelephense license key not recognized
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.
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Replacing PHPStorm with VS Code
I'm quite happy with Emacs, coming from PhpStorm, using intelephense.com premium. I highly recommend.
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How to log user logout date and time in database?
Follow this guide to configure and add PHP Intelephense.
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Undefined type 'Spatie\Permission\Models\' . 'Permission' | 'Role' | 'HasRoles'
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.
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Reducing Errors With Type Hinting in PHP
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:
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PHP LSP integration
Helix should use Intelephense by default, so if you install that, it should work out of the box. You can find installation instructions here π
vscode-phpactor
Posts with mentions or reviews of vscode-phpactor.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-20.
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VSCode for PHP and Laravel
phpactor/vscode-phpactor: Phpactor VS Code Extension
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What are some Good VS Code Extensions for PHP/Laravel?
phpactor
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Calling VSCode users: has anyone used DevSense? Compared to Intelephense?
You could try another language servers. I use phpactor with nvim, but there is a plugin for vscode https://github.com/phpactor/vscode-phpactor. Phpactor is free so that could be another reason to try it.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing vscode-intelephense and vscode-phpactor you can also consider the following projects:
Phpactor - Mainly a PHP Language Server with more features than you can shake a stick at
better-pest - A better Pest test runner for VS Code
vscode-php-intellisense - Advanced PHP IntelliSense for Visual Studio Code ππ¬
prettier-plugin-blade - Format your blade template using Prettier
laravel-ide-helper - IDE Helper for Laravel
better-phpunit - A better PHPUnit test runner for VS Code

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