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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
I am a freelance software developer living in beautiful North Carolina. The majority of my work involves building and maintaining custom PHP web applications, although I also spend a lot of time developing for WordPress and Drupal. For personal projects I like to mix things up and use a variety of languages from Ruby to Common Lisp.