Regions, Color Coding

Posted March 9th, 2008 by csanford

Regions (again)

I've seen a few people post comments relating to .NET style #regions... I'd like to see both collapsible / expandable #region tags. Additionally, since you've already integrated phpDoc intellisense, why not add the the expand/collapse functionality for these "regions" too? Example:

class Example {

/**#@+
* @access public
*/

// some php members / methods here

/**#@-*/

#region Public methods

// some php methods

#endregion

}

Better Syntax Highligting (Colors)

Currently, it seems that there's a generic bucket for "PHP Code," which includes both words (functions) & other characters (parenthesis, semicolon, etc). For example, if I have the following function: array_map('strtolower', $array);, I'd expect that just "array_map" be the color I selected for "PHP Code", and the comma, parens, and semicolon a totally different color. It defeats the purpose to highlight when the following code is all "red:" SomeClass::getInstance(); Furthermore, there's an option for keywords, why not for php functions? EditPlus is a barebones editor,yet it handles the above scenarios.

‹ Some enhancements A profiling tool would definitely be a top wishlist item for me ›

Comments

    .Net regions are supported.

    On March 10th, 2008 webmaster said:

    .Net regions are supported. Are you asking something in particular on .Net regions aside from automatic outlining?

    We also support the PEAR style regions and we could easily add the PhpDoc style you mentioned above. I was just not aware of this style. BTW, how popular is this style?

    Regarding color coding, I agree we can make more improvements in the granularity of the coloring.

    Thanks for your feedback

    I recently download the

    On March 10th, 2008 csanford said:

    I recently downloaded the newest standalone trial version of VS.PHP, and the .NET regions are not outlining as expected. As for the phpDoc regions, I've used them extensively. Also, projects such as Zend Framework also utilize these. Checkout DocBlock Template for more info.

    Could you please post a

    On March 10th, 2008 webmaster said:

    Could you please post a screenshot of your php code wrapped around #region not working?

    Thanks,