New features for 2.1

Posted March 8th, 2006 by webmaster

Guys,

I'll like to hear some feedback on what features should be added to VS.Php 2.1

Some of the ones we are thinking about:

- Javascript intellisense in php files
- CSS intellisense in php files
- Auto formating (indents)
- Xdebug support?

Any other suggestions?

Comments

Import remote projects

On March 8th, 2006 webmaster said:

Another big one is the ability to sync up with remote servers. VS.Net 2005 has some functionality for this. We'll see if we can leverage it.

Console output

On March 10th, 2006 mamber said:

Also console output would be great, i.e. showing result of a script without using IE.

Very good idea

On March 10th, 2006 webmaster said:

I think this should not be too hard to do :)

2.1 Beta come without console output

On August 5th, 2006 mamber said:

I was very surprised to look today at this site and see @[u]VS.PHP 2.1 Beta Standalone Edition[/u]@, very Nice/Big/Powerful step for this great product.
I cheer for you! :)

But, as I can see there is No @[b]Console Output[/b]@ feature within v2.1 :(

Does it really will be implemented?

Unfortunatelly not in 2.1

On August 9th, 2006 webmaster said:

We look forward to implement this right after 2.1.

Thanks for your patience,

Auto-Comment Feature

On May 8th, 2006 Luminari said:

One of my biggest wants/needs would be an auto-comment feature.

It could work in either (or both :) of these ways.

1. There is a menu option that says auto-comment. You select it and it fills in any missing comment options for the entire page (either through a dialog box or automatically)
2. When you type the /** for a phpdoc comment and hit enter, it fills in the rest of the options for whatever is located below the comment (like for a function it puts the @params and @return if there is a return in the function).

Thanks.

Drag and drop files into editor

On May 9th, 2006 shaven said:

I would really like to see the ability to have images and other php/html files dragable into the editor and have it auto text the item in. For instance if you drag an image into the editor with an HTML file or .NET file it will auto generate an image tag for that image with the appropriate relative pathing. And if you drag another content file, either HTML or .NET extension, then it will create an ancor tag automatically.

Small, but very useful.

Feature request

On May 10th, 2006 webmaster said:

I created a feature request. You can keep track of it here:

http://www.jcxsoftware.com/jcx/?q=node/1153

Ankh Support

On May 24th, 2006 jason said:

I'd like to see the necessary methods implemeted to make Ankh http://ankhsvn.tigris.org/ work so that we can use SVN version control within visual studio. I saw a post on this topic that Ankh doesn't use the normal SCC API and uses the DTE API instead. *Hopefully* there wouldn't be too many methods to implement as I think it only wants to get the file path. Right now it craps out at EnvDTE.ProjectItem.get_Object()

I actually like the way Ankh integrates because doesn't take over as the default source control provider so it's easy to flip back and forth between SourceSafe on some projects and Subversion on others.

Ankh developers?

On May 26th, 2006 webmaster said:

Do you know any of the Ankh developers that might give us the detailed information on what they need? I'd love to be able to integrate the two.

Thanks

RE Ank developers

On July 10th, 2006 jason said:

I don't know them personally, but the dev team has their email addresses listed on the project page - http://ankhsvn.tigris.org/

Thanks!

"quick compile" or somethign

On August 17th, 2006 nabeel said:

"quick compile" or somethign to be able to see the errors in your code listed out, instead of just hte red squigglies. , like returning the output fromrunning it rhough php_cli or something

Add Mising HTML Initellisense

On August 17th, 2006 mike.bronner said:

There is some missing HTML intellisense, mostly on tag attributes, i.e. the type attribute of the <input /> tag doesn't provide Intellisense in .php files. (The MS Intellisense does provide for this.) Thanks!

how about auto complete and

On September 18th, 2006 Rooster said:

how about auto complete and syntax highlighting for php in .htm and .html files.

Choosing the editor

On September 18th, 2006 webmaster said:

In Visual Studio 2005 you can configure what editor you would like to use for a particular extension. You can use the VS.Php editor for html files.

In VS2003 you'd need to modify the registry to make this happen. Check the Visual Studio registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.1\Languages\File Extensions

Cool

On September 27th, 2006 Rooster said:

that's cool, i didn't realize that. but then i loose javascript autocomplete and syntax highlighting. in fact it makes javascript looked completly screwed. i almost always have a combination of php, javascript, and html in my html files and would like all languages to work using the same editor.

For now...

On September 27th, 2006 webmaster said:

For now put your JavaScript code inside html comments. We will address this issue in the next release.