September 2022 (version 1.68)

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

PHP 8.2 Support

The new version of PHP, version 8.2, will be released soon (expected November 2022). Our PHP editor is getting ready and already supports most of the new language syntax. You can try the new readonly classes and even use the latest development build of PHP 8.2 in Visual Studio.

php readonly class in older PHP

Just go to your PHP project properties, and choose PHP 8.2 (x64) DEV. It will get installed and configured for debugging automatically.

PHP 8.2 installation

Diagnostics

Dynamic Properties

The editor checks accessing class dynamic properties, i.e. properties that were not declared, according to their access. When reading a property and there is no magic __get() method, the property gets reported. When writing to a property and there is no magic __set(), the property gets reported. This behavior can be improved by specifying the dynamic properties in the class DocComment, using @property, @property-read, @property-write tags.

Note, since PHP 8.2, use of dynamic properties (without __get(), or __set()) is deprecated (#rfc).

Annotating `foreach` Control Variables

The type of control variables can be annotated using inlined DocComment, i.e.:

foreach ($array as /* @var MyClass */$x) {
    //$x-> ...
}

/* @var MyClass $x */
foreach ($array as $x) {
    //$x-> ...
}

The same works for the key variable as well.

More Control Flow Diagnostics

Since v1.68, diagnostics treat finally block correctly and detect missing return with a value in more cases. Also, in case a function has a return type-hint mixed, a missing return is reported as well.

Debug Improvements

We've implemented some quality-of-life improvements to the debugger, as well as fixing issues.

Array item types are shown

When inspecting arrays, the debugger determines the type of array items and shows the array object more conveniently.

Array Item Type

Editing private properties

You can now change a value of a private property during debugging session.

Setting private properties

Fixes

In addition, we have fixed inspecting values of more complex expressions.

Publish Log Level

We've added a log level setting to publish profiles. Turn on Diagnostic log level to find out what exactly is going on during the publishing process - detailed information will be written to Publish output pane.