PHP Tools for Visual Studio is a Visual Studio extension. The PHP Editor colorizes your code according to Visual Studio settings, giving you a better overview in the colors you are used to. The colors respect Visual Studio conventions with support for dark, light and 3rd party themes.
Detect type mismatches, typos, missing function parameters, unknown classes and functions as you type. Code analysis periodically checks your code for various issues and underlines them immediately. This avoids having to handle most of the issues in run-time.
IntelliSense features provide you with smart, context-aware code completions, detailed tool tips and function parameter assistance. The feature contains a complete PHP manual, learns from your code and performs type analysis. Its purpose is to minimize the amount of key presses you have to do.
v1.2 [Aug 28, 2016]
UTF detection improvements.
Breakpoints displays hit counts.
Hit Count breakpoints (equal | greater than or equal | is multiple of) supported.
Conditional breakpoints support 'when changed' conditions.
Supported break on first statement (F10, F11).
"When Hit" breakpoints supported (Tracepoints).
Added support for DGBp proxy.
PHPUnit 6.x supported.
PHPUnit version detected from composer.json.
Custom PHPUnit can be used.
PHPUnit is bundled in case.
Compatible PHPUnit engine choosen according to selected PHP runtime.
Experimental support for Visual Studio 2017
Fix: Unable to discover tests.
Fix: Smarty files didn't work in Update 3.
