August 2022 (version 1.67)

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Welcome to the August 2022 release of PHP Tools for Visual Studio!

To-Do on Dark Theme

This release improves and updates color scheme of to-do comments on Dark Theme. It makes the the caret navigation more readable.

IntelliSense Enhancements

Code Completion has several neat new features and improvements to make the daily tasks easier.

• PHP 8.1 enum are now correctly handled, IntelliSense shows the implicit enum members in the list, type analysis respects the implicit enum members types.
• Tooltips shows cleaner information. There are fixes in the case of trait aliased methods.
• More precise static type resolve, especially when defined in trait.
• Variadic parameters handled correctly, added code analysis and type checks for variadic parameters.
• Overall improvements in type analysis.
• Not reporting correctly used $this in template files.
• Improves resolving of corresponding __construct.
• Auto-import use respects the already existing alias with the same name.

Auto-Importing of a namespace avoids creating conflict names in use and current class

Code Diagnostics

Strict Types Checking

Newly, the code diagnostic respects the strict_types directive. Whenever there is declare(strict_types=1); code at the top of source file, implicit numeric conversions are treated strictly. Any conversion that would reduce the value precision is reported as a warning.

Unknown Property Diagnostic and Code Fix (PHP0416)

The code diagnostic for unknown properties has been introduced. In case there is no magic __get() method, and it is not a stdClass, the unknown property is reported in the editor, and the error list. Eventually a quick code action is provided, allowing to quickly insert the correct property name, if it can be inferred at the moment.

The quick code action fixes common typos and fixes letter casing.

Namespace Declaration Correctness (PHP2432)

We have added a code diagnostic that validates use of namespace and other statements in the global code. Also it checks the user is not mixing short and long namespace syntaxes.

Class Name Correctness (PHP2000)

There must not be same class names defined. The editor was already checking for that. Newly, it also checks aliases introduced with use statement in combination with classes inside the current namespace. This reports names of classes conflicting with a name already specified in a use alias.

Code Compose

The PHP Editor is getting a new feature called Code Compose. It is also known as inline suggestion. The editor is guessing the next word or a sequence of words you might type according to the context.

The suggestion is shown dimmed right in the code, and can be confirmed with TAB key.

This will be extended in the future releases for more cases and suggestions.

Fixes

There are numerous of fixes and small improvements:

• Fix: unused use not reported twice.
• Fixes word occurence highlighting stopped working.
• Ctrl+F5 (run without debug) allows to ignore issues about Xdebug.
• F12 (go to def) on an include/require navigates to the file.
• Several localized texts have fixed punctuation.
• Fixes code completion exception on VS 2022 (17.3.0 with IntelliCode).
• Memory optimizations.
• Internal fixes.