Hi all, today we will show you our improved support for some PHP tools which will be part of NetBeans 8.2.

As you already know, NetBeans uses a lot of existing tools (great, right?!) and we will now focus on improvements for two of them.

PHPUnit

Perhaps the most unpleasant thing in PHPUnit support in NetBeans is (was! ;) that test results are visible once all the tests finish. In other words, one has to wait for all the tests to complete and after that, NetBeans is able to display the results. That is not true anymore, NetBeans now displays test results as they come, it means that you will be able to see what tests and with which results already finished even if the whole test run is still running.

Another minor but very useful improvement is that now, your PHP projects can be tested by running just phpunit command. That was not possible before, NetBeans used to always add some command line parameters to this command.

Code Sniffer

Support for phpcs.xml configuration file has been added. Formerly, NetBeans always run phpcs tool with some specific code standard so any standard possibly defined in phpcs.xml file was ignored (overwritten). That is not true anymore.

That's all for today, as always, please test it and report all the issues or enhancements you find in NetBeans Bugzilla (component php, subcomponent PHPUnit or Code). You can also leave a comment here (please notice that the comments are moderated so they will not appear here immediately) but reporting issues is strongly preferred.

Hi all, this blog post is kind of  related to the previous blog posts about PHP 7 support in NetBeans 8.2 (Part 1, Part 2). Today, we will tell you how you can help with testing this support and believe us, everyone of you is important for us and your help is more than welcome!

Luckily, it is very simple because there are no specific instructions! :) Simply, test (use) PHP 7 support in NetBeans if possible (yes, we know that it can be quite soon for using PHP 7 in production but still, we are developers and we love to play with a new things, right?) as well as the existing features (to ensure that nothing is broken) in NetBeans development version (it is a good idea to download a fresh build from time to time, we fix a lot of bugs every day). This would help us a lot because there are so many situations that can happen that it is not possible for us to test them all, unfortunately. Please, report all issues together with exact steps to reproduce in NetBeans Bugzilla (component php, subcomponent Editor; unfortunately, currently down for maintenance).

Thank you!

Hi all, today we will show you our improved support for Symfony which will be part of NetBeans 8.2.

Some time ago, Symfony 3 was released so its support has been added to NetBeans. And because Symfony 3 is not much different from Symfony 2, we just extended our existing support instead of creating a completely new one. However, NetBeans recognizes the proper version of the Symfony you use in your project, of course:

It means that all features that work in Symfony 2 work now for Symfony 3 as well. But not only that, we have added a completely new functionality - Navigate to Action/View. So, now you can navigate from your views (Twig files) to the relevant actions in your controller and vice versa (applies for both Symfony 2 and Symfony 3):

That's all for today, as always, please test it and report all the issues or enhancements you find in NetBeans Bugzilla (component php, subcomponent Symfony). You can also leave a comment here (please notice that the comments are moderated so they will not appear here immediately) but reporting issues is strongly preferred.

Hi all, today we will show you our support for PHP 7 which will be part of NetBeans 8.2.
(This is the second part; for the first part, please follow this link.)

Hi all, today we will show you our support for PHP 7 which will be part of NetBeans 8.2.

This blog post has been contributed by our NetBeans PHP user Junichi Yamamoto who is helping a lot with implementing enhancements and fixing issues in all the areas of NetBeans PHP support. He has also contributed a few plugins, e.g. support for CakePHP framework. He would like to tell you a few words about one new PHP feature in NetBeans. Thanks a lot, Junichi!

Hi all. Today we will show you the Spellchecker for PHPDoc comments which will be available in the next NetBeans version. This feature spell checks your words in PHPDoc comments(/** */) (NOTE: Not /* */, # and //). If there are some spelling mistakes, they will be marked with wavy underlines.

Configuration

At first, let's check the configuration. It is enabled by default. If you don't want to use this feature, please unckeck the Tools > Options > Editor > Spellchecker > PHPDoc comments.

Please note that only english dictionary is bundled with NetBeans so only "en_US" locale works out-of-the-box.

Ignored words

• Variable: e.g. $foo
• Annotation: e.g. @param
• Type of Annotation: e.g. @param type (only the tags recognized by NetBeans)
• Camel Case Word: e.g. MyClass

That's all for today. As always, please test it. It's available in the development version. If you find some issues or enhancements, please report them to NetBeans Bugzilla (component php, subcomponent Editor). Thanks.

This blog post has been contributed by our NetBeans PHP user Junichi Yamamoto who is helping a lot with implementing enhancements and fixing issues in all the areas of NetBeans PHP support. He has also contributed a few plugins, e.g. support for CakePHP framework. He would like to tell you a few words about one new PHP feature in NetBeans. Thanks a lot, Junichi!

Hi all. Today we will show you the {@inheritdoc} tag support for PHPDoc comments which will be available in the next NetBeans version.

You can use this support when you extend a class or override a method. Simply add only {@inheritdoc} to a PHPDoc comment of a child class if you want to use the same one as the parent. And you can see the description of the parent class in the PHP document window using the code completion.

Let's see an example: 

<?php
/**
 * The summary of BaseClass.
 *
 * The description of BaseClass.
 * @author junichi11
 */
class BaseClass
{
    /**
     * test method of BaseClass.
     *
     * @param string $param1
     * @param int $param2
     */
    public function test($param1, $param2) {
    }
}

/**
 * {@inheritdoc}
 */
class ChildClass extends BaseClass
{
    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function test($param1, $param2) {
    }

}  

Which in the IDE in the case of the class results in:

And in the case of the method:

That's all for today. As always, please test it. It's available in the development version. If you find some issues or enhancements, please report them to NetBeans Bugzilla(component php, subcomponent Editor). Thanks.

This blog post has been contributed by our NetBeans PHP user Junichi Yamamoto who is helping a lot with fixing issues in all the areas of NetBeans PHP support. He has also contributed a few plugins, e.g. support for CakePHP framework. He would like to tell you a few words about one new PHP feature in NetBeans. Thanks a lot, Junichi!

Hi all. Today we will show you the new code completion feature for your custom code template which will be available in the next NetBeans version. You can disable/enable it in the IDE Options (Tools > Options > Editor > Code Template > Language:PHP Contexts Tab).

If you check the php-code, your custom code template is added to the code completion list.

That's all for today. As usually, please test it. It's available in the development version. If you find some issues or enhancements, please report them to NetBeans Bugzilla (component php, subcomponent Editor). Thanks.

This blog post has been contributed by our NetBeans PHP user Junichi Yamamoto who is helping a lot with fixing issues in all the areas of  NetBeans PHP support. He has also contributed a few plugins, e.g. support for CakePHP framework. He would like to tell you a few words about one new PHP feature in NetBeans. Thanks a lot, Junichi!

Hi all. Today we will show you the new brace matching feature which will be available in next NetBeans version. If a caret is on a closing brace and the opening brace is hidden, not only the brace but also context information is shown as a tooltip. This feature would be useful, if an opening brace is written on the next line.

NOTE: If an opening brace is for else keyword(not elseif/else if), the last if keyword line is also shown.

That's all for today. As usually, please test it. It's available in the development version. If you find some issues or enhancements, please report them to NetBeans Bugzilla (component php, subcomponent Editor). Thanks.

Most of you have already noticed but still, let me inform you that NetBeans IDE 8.1 has been released! All the information can be found here.

Let me inform you that NetBeans IDE 8.1 Beta has been released! All the information can be found here.

 Enjoy it and let us know how you like it.

Hi all, today we will show you our support for PHP project build system or build tool which has been added in NetBeans 8.1. This time, we will talk about Phing.

Hi all, let me inform you that NetBeans 8.0 is out! Enjoy it!

Hi all, let me inform you that NetBeans 8.0 RC1 is out! Enjoy it!