Writing PHP with Emacs
Writing PHP with Emacs
Turn vanilla Emacs into a powerful PHP editor.
About the Book
My aim is for the book to teach you how to take a brand new Emacs installation and turn it into something tailored just for you.
A complete table of contents, along with a regularly updated changelog, is available on the Writing PHP with Emacs homepage. The rough outline looks like this:
Part 1 - Essential Packages
- Using php-mode
- Installation
- First Steps
- Useful shortcuts (for navigation, viewing documentation and editing code)
- Customization - indentation and coding styles
- Customization - documentation lookup
- Customization - Using TAGS files
- Evaluating inline code using
php-send-region - Using web-mode
- Installation
- First steps
- Useful shortcuts
- Customization - indentation
- Explanation and examples of all shortcuts
Part 2 - Getting More out of Emacs
- Checking syntax (and more) with flycheck
- Navigating projects using projectile
- Using lsp-mode
Part 3 - Recipes
- Setting per-project settings using .dir-locals.el
- Generating code quickly with emmet
- Looking up documentation with dash
- Adding a project sidebar using dired-sidebar
- Setting up an Emacs environment for WordPress, Drupal, Laravel, and Symfony
About the Author
Table of Contents
-
Introduction
- What this book is working towards
- The structure of this book
- Conventions
- Learning more about Emacs
- Let’s get started!
- Part I: Essential Packages
-
php-mode
- Overview
- Installation
- First Steps
- Useful Shortcuts
- Customization - Indentation and Coding Styles
- Customization - PHP Documentation Lookup
- Customization - Browsing Documentation Within Emacs
- Customization - Generating a TAGS File
- Evaluating PHP Code
- Running PHP’s Built-in Server
-
Viewing PHP’s Configuration Paths with
php-ini
-
web-mode
- Overview
- Installation
- Configuring web-mode for PHP file extensions
- First Steps
- Highlighting embedded code
- Configuring indentation
- Useful shortcuts
- Snippets
- Part II: Getting More out of Emacs
-
Checking syntax (and more) with flycheck
- Installing flycheck
- Installing PHP checkers
- Globally enabling and disabling checkers
- Per-project enabling and disabling checkers
-
Quickly navigating projects with projectile
- What is projectile?
- Getting Started
- Useful key bindings
-
Using lsp for intelligent code features
- What is lsp?
- What can lsp-mode do?
- Installation
-
Configuring
lsp-mode -
Configuring
lsp-ui -
Installing and configuring each PHP
lspserver -
Setting up automatic-completion with
company-mode -
Adding icons to
company-mode
- Part III: Recipes
-
Using
.dir-locals.elto automatically set project preferences-
Just what is a
.dir-locals.elfile? - Setting values within Emacs
- Setting values directly
- Useful settings for PHP developers
- Setting the coding style
- Setting tab and space styles
- Setting flycheck phpcs coding standard
- Enabling and disabling flycheck checkers
- Learning more
-
Just what is a
-
Generating HTML code quickly with emmet
- Overview
- Installation
- Quick syntax overview
-
Looking up documentation with dash
- Overview
- Installation
- Installing and using documentation sets
- Automatically activating docsets for a mode
- Setting per-project docsets
- Fixing the GnuTLS error
-
Adding a project sidebar using
dired-sidebar- Overview
- Installation
- Usage
- Customization
-
Configuring a Drupal 7 project
- Overview
- Setting up indentation
- Setting up Drupal documentation lookup
- Setting up coding standards checking
- Adding Drupal 7 file type associations
- The full .dir-locals.el configuration
-
Configuring a Drupal 8 project
- Overview
- Setting up indentation
- Setting up Drupal documentation lookup
- Setting up coding standards checking
- Adding Drupal 8 file type associations
- The full .dir-locals.el configuration
-
Configuring a Laravel project
- Overview
- Setting up tabs and indentation
- Setting up Laravel documentation lookup
- Setting up coding standards checking with flycheck
- The full .dir-locals.el configuration
-
Configuring a Symfony project
- Overview
- Setting up tabs and indentation
- Setting up Symfony documentation lookup
- Setting up coding standards checking with flycheck
- The full .dir-locals.el configuration
-
Configuring a WordPress project
- Overview
- Setting up tabs and indentation
- Setting up WordPress documentation lookup
- Setting up coding standards checking with flycheck
-
WordPress-specific
lspconfiguration - The full .dir-locals.el configuration
- Appendix
- Appendix A: Intelephense Configuration Variables
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
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