PHP Tools for Visual Studio - Documentation

v1.22.9523

Date: January 23, 2017

  • Fix of Class View not being loaded.
  • Fix of toolbars and menus displayed when a Smarty file is opened.

Smarty (VS2015 and newer)

  • More tolerant syntax checker.
  • New Keyword.
  • Fix of Smarty editor exception messages.

VS2017

  • Experimental support for Visual Studio 2017 RC

v1.22.9478

Date: January 17, 2017

Editor

  • PHP interfaces in integrated PHP manual updated.
  • Light bulbs in VS 2015 and newer instead of legacy smart tags.
  • Fix of Visual Studio freezes.

Project

  • Crash fix for VS2017RC.

Smarty (VS2015 and newer)

  • Smarty code colorization.
  • Smarty autocompetion of pair keywords (pressing Tab).
  • Smarty IntelliSense for keywords, multiword keywords, functions, modifiers and variables.
  • IntelliSense analyses PHP source code for user defined variables.
  • Basic Smarty syntactic error checking.
  • Smarty tooltips for functions and modifiers.
  • Support for Go To Definition (pressing F12) for smarty variables, functions and modifiers.
  • Smarty syntax verification and errors underlining.

Composer

  • Improved new Composer package dialog (displays more relevant information).
  • Dialog shows amount of package downloads and stars.
  • Abandoned packages have warning note.
  • License and publish date is shown.
  • Faster packagist repository loading.

VS2017

  • Experimental support for Visual Studio 2017 RC