:lang php

Perl’s insecure younger brother

1. Description

This module adds support for PHP 5.3+ (including PHP7).

  • ctags-based code completion (company-php and phpctags)
  • eldoc support (ac-php and php-extras)
  • REPL (php-boris)
  • Code refactoring commands (php-refactor-mode)
  • Unit-test commands (phpunit)
  • Support for laravel and composer projects (with project-specific snippets)
  • File templates
  • Snippets

PHP was the first programming language I got paid to code in, back in the Cretaceous period (2003). My sincerest apologies go out to all the programmers who inherited my earliest PHP work. I know you’re out there, writhing in your straitjackets.

Save a programmer today. Stop a friend from choosing PHP as their first language.

1.1. Maintainers

This module has no dedicated maintainers.

1.2. Module flags

+hack
Add support for the Hack dialect of PHP by Facebook.
+lsp
Enable LSP support through phpactor or intelephense. Requires :tools lsp module and the phpactor server to be installed on your system.

2. Prerequisites

2.1. PHP

To get started with PHP, you’ll need php (5.3+) and composer.

Note for +lsp:

  1. In order to make full use of phpactor server, php (7.3+) is recommended.
  2. If you use intelephense, node and npm are needed.

2.1.1. MacOS

PHP 5.5 comes prepackaged with newer versions of MacOS. These instructions are provided for reference:

# ⎘
$ brew tap homebrew/homebrew-php
$ brew install php71  # or php53, php54, php55
$ brew install composer

# If you use intelephense:
$ brew install node
$ brew install npm

2.1.2. Arch Linux

# ⎘
$ pacman --needed --noconfirm -S php composer  # or php53, php54, php55

# If you use intelephense:
$ pacman -S nodejs npm

2.1.3. openSUSE

# ⎘
$ zypper install php-composer

# If you use intelephense:
$ zypper install nodejs npm

2.2. Dependencies

This module has no required dependencies, but it has a couple optional ones.

  • boris (REPL)
  • phpctags (better code completion)
  • phpunit (unit test commands)
  • php-cs-fixer and @prettier/plugin-php (for code formatting)
# ⎘
$ composer global require \
      d11wtq/boris \
      phpunit/phpunit \
      techlivezheng/phpctags \
      friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer

# Needed by php-cs-fixer, otherwise you'll get "Couldn't resolve parser
# 'php'" errors
$ npm install -g @prettier/plugin-php

You must ensure that ~/.composer/vendor/bin is in PATH, so these executables are visible to Emacs:

# ⎘
# place this in your profile file, like ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zshenv
$ export PATH="~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

You may also need to regenerate your envvar file by running $ doom env on the command line.

To use intelephense instead of , run M-x lsp-install-server and choose iph to install lsp-intelephense.

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4. TODO Configuration

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