PHP VS Studio 2017

Johnatan56

Johnatan56

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Hi,

I am looking for a plugin for VS Studio 2017 community edition like PHP Tools for Visual Studio that is either free or free for students to use.

Does anyone know of a good alternative?
I can also move to PHPStorm from IntelliJ, they give student licenses, but I'd like to stay with VS Studio as it's also installed on all Uni machines.
 
Johnatan56 said:
Hi,

I am looking for a plugin for VS Studio 2017 community edition like PHP Tools for Visual Studio that is either free or free for students to use.

Does anyone know of a good alternative?
I can also move to PHPStorm from IntelliJ, they give student licenses, but I'd like to stay with VS Studio as it's also installed on all Uni machines.
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PHPStorm is very good and productive. I have tried VS Studio and the above plugin, The price vs productivity was not worth it, plus adding php libraries was a pain.
 
I use PHP storm which was built with PHP in mind... I has alot of functionality like terminal, Git, Composer etc integration and they ever have default support for popular Frameworks like Laravel.

Visual studio may support PHP but it will always be 3rd party to the Microsoft languages.

Rather go PHP Storm its not a killer to get configured but once its up... along with the live templating features etc it make coding a breeze.
 
Setting it up to work with WAMP:
Install WAMP as per norm, I have WAMP64 installed in root.

Once PHP Storm is installed, in order to run it locally:
File > Settings
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Language & Frameworks > PHP, select the more option (...)
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Click the add button (+)
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Select local path
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Select More, in the popup: Navigate to WAMP directory/bin/PHP/phpVersion/php.exe and click okay, and okay.
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Then okay out of settings. You should now be able to run the project in your browser.

All images: https://imgur.com/a/d8mKI
 
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