Facilitation in PHP projects

Question

I work with PHP using Sublime Text and would like something similar to what it is in Eclipse. For example:

In Eclipse I can open exactly where the method was declared. In Sublime Text I did not find any similar option, which I use the shortcut CTRL + mouse click to open method declarations and everything else.

Sublime Text has some option to make my project easier to navigate, to check the method/function statements?

Answer 1

Most of the content here "maybe" applies only to Sublime Text 3, please note that Sublime Text 2 was last updated on 8 of July 2013

For PHP as for other languages the plugin that works a lot is Codeintel, it uses the autocomplete while typing, so it doesn’t need commands. It recognizes custom functions, classes and namespaces (created in your project), even if it’s in a different file.

1. Install the Sublimecodeintel Preferences > Package Control > Install Package

2. Typo SublimeCodeIntel, and select it to install

3. Install Phpintel Preferences > Package Control > Install Package

4. Typo PhpIntel, and select it to install

Now you should select the folder of your project and drag it to Sublimetext, like this:

Now browse through the sublime itself in the project files, open any file and press Ctrl+S, Codeintel will take a while the first time, but will generate in your project folder another folder called .phpintel, it contains a mapping and caches of your classes, every time you use Ctrl+S he’ll update this, then just test:

Note that the namespace and class are not native, although it recognizes PHP natives as well.

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Other tips

Other interesting settings that you can take into consideration is to edit Settings, go to Preferences > Settings, will open a window with two documents, edit only the right, follow some settings you can use:

Removes unnecessary spaces when saving:

"trailing_spaces_trim_on_save": true, 

Swap Tabs for spaces:

"translate_tabs_to_spaces": true,

Use Tabs as 4 spaces, you can adjust here:

"tab_size": 4,

Shows the encoding of the current file in the Sublimetext footer, helps avoid many headaches:

"show_encoding": true,

Line breaks use only LF:

"default_line_ending": "unix",

Shows what type of "new line" you use, for example: Unix (if the lines in the document end in LF) or Windows (if the lines in the document end in CR LF):

"show_line_endings": true,

Add line break at the end of the document if necessary (of course this is optional):

"ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save": true,

It must look like this:

{
    "always_show_minimap_viewport": true,
    "bold_folder_labels": true,
    "font_size": 11,
    "highlight_line": true,
    "ignored_packages":
    [
        "Vintage"
    ],
    "indent_guide_options":
    [
        "draw_normal",
        "draw_active"
    ],
    "line_padding_bottom": 3,
    "line_padding_top": 3,
    "overlay_scroll_bars": "enabled",
    "show_encoding": true,
    "tab_size": 4,
    "trailing_spaces_trim_on_save": true,
    "translate_tabs_to_spaces": true,
    "show_encoding": true,
    "show_line_endings": true,
    "ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save": true,
    "word_wrap": true
}

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Extra

Spell checker, there is no relation, but a spell checker can help avoid constraints sometimes, in case you can manually install it, which can be something very complex, I even tried to download the .dic of Libreoffice and gave problem with Unicode, so I ended up copying .dic that was in the Firefox folder, but this is a bit complicated, so I’ll tell you from the same repository, select the preferred language on https://github.com/titoBouzout/Dictionaries and download . dic and . Aff, for example:

• https://github.com/titoBouzout/Dictionaries/blob/master/Portuguese%20(Brazilian). dic
• https://github.com/titoBouzout/Dictionaries/blob/master/Portuguese%20(Brazilian). Aff

Open the package folder, if it’s Linux or Mac:

• ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages

If it’s Windows maybe it’s the folder like this SublimeText\Data\Packages\

Create a folder called Portuguese for example and copy both files in it, you may have to close the sublime and open again, so go to View > Dictionary and see if it shows up Portuguese, or you can point to Settings as well, like this:

"dictionary": "Packages/Portuguese/Portuguese (Brazilian).dic",

And enable the spell checker permanently:

"spell_check": true,

It should look something like this:

{
    "always_show_minimap_viewport": true,
    "bold_folder_labels": true,
    "dictionary": "Packages/Portuguese/Portuguese (Brazilian).dic",
    "font_size": 11,
    "highlight_line": true,
    "ignored_packages":
    [
        "Vintage"
    ],
    "indent_guide_options":
    [
        "draw_normal",
        "draw_active"
    ],
    "line_padding_bottom": 3,
    "line_padding_top": 3,
    "overlay_scroll_bars": "enabled",
    "show_encoding": true,
    "spell_check": true,
    "tab_size": 4,
    "trailing_spaces_trim_on_save": true,
    "translate_tabs_to_spaces": true,
    "show_encoding": true,
    "show_line_endings": true,
    "ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save": true,
    "word_wrap": true
}

Answer 2

I work with Sublime Text too. In the version I use, the 3 (yours is probably the same), just hover over a function and wait 1 to 2 seconds that a small pop-up with a list of files containing the function appears on the cursor. If Sublime doesn’t find any files with this function it doesn’t appear. I didn’t go after configuring it, but maybe I have something for it. But as far as I know it only works with functions.

Answer 3

There is the Phpintel package that brings go to declaration functions by placing the pointer over the method/Class and pressing Ctrl + F5

https://packagecontrol.io/packages/PHPIntel