Writing PHP with Emacs

Introduction

1. What this book is working towards
2. The structure of this book
3. Conventions
4. Learning more about Emacs
5. Let’s get started!

Part I: Essential Packages

php-mode

1. Overview
2. Installation
3. First Steps
4. Useful Shortcuts
5. Customization - Indentation and Coding Styles
6. Customization - PHP Documentation Lookup
7. Customization - Browsing Documentation Within Emacs
8. Customization - Generating a TAGS File
9. Evaluating PHP Code
10. Running PHP’s Built-in Server
11. Viewing PHP’s Configuration Paths with php-ini

web-mode

1. Overview
2. Installation
3. Configuring web-mode for PHP file extensions
4. First Steps
5. Highlighting embedded code
6. Configuring indentation
7. Useful shortcuts
8. Snippets

Part II: Getting More out of Emacs

Checking syntax (and more) with flycheck

1. Installing flycheck
2. Installing PHP checkers
3. Globally enabling and disabling checkers
4. Per-project enabling and disabling checkers

Quickly navigating projects with projectile

1. What is projectile?
2. Getting Started
3. Useful key bindings

Using lsp for intelligent code features

1. What is lsp?
2. What can lsp-mode do?
3. Installation
4. Configuring lsp-mode
5. Configuring lsp-ui
6. Installing and configuring each PHP lsp server
7. Setting up automatic-completion with company-mode
8. Adding icons to company-mode

Part III: Recipes

Using .dir-locals.el to automatically set project preferences

1. Just what is a .dir-locals.el file?
2. Setting values within Emacs
3. Setting values directly
4. Useful settings for PHP developers
5. Setting the coding style
6. Setting tab and space styles
7. Setting flycheck phpcs coding standard
8. Enabling and disabling flycheck checkers
9. Learning more

Generating HTML code quickly with emmet

1. Overview
2. Installation
3. Quick syntax overview

Looking up documentation with dash

1. Overview
2. Installation
3. Installing and using documentation sets
4. Automatically activating docsets for a mode
5. Setting per-project docsets
6. Fixing the GnuTLS error

Adding a project sidebar using dired-sidebar

1. Overview
2. Installation
3. Usage
4. Customization

Configuring a Drupal 7 project

1. Overview
2. Setting up indentation
3. Setting up Drupal documentation lookup
4. Setting up coding standards checking
5. Adding Drupal 7 file type associations
6. The full .dir-locals.el configuration

Configuring a Drupal 8 project

1. Overview
2. Setting up indentation
3. Setting up Drupal documentation lookup
4. Setting up coding standards checking
5. Adding Drupal 8 file type associations
6. The full .dir-locals.el configuration

Configuring a Laravel project

1. Overview
2. Setting up tabs and indentation
3. Setting up Laravel documentation lookup
4. Setting up coding standards checking with flycheck
5. The full .dir-locals.el configuration

Configuring a Symfony project

1. Overview
2. Setting up tabs and indentation
3. Setting up Symfony documentation lookup
4. Setting up coding standards checking with flycheck
5. The full .dir-locals.el configuration

Configuring a WordPress project

1. Overview
2. Setting up tabs and indentation
3. Setting up WordPress documentation lookup
4. Setting up coding standards checking with flycheck
5. WordPress-specific lsp configuration
6. The full .dir-locals.el configuration

Appendix

Appendix A: Intelephense Configuration Variables

Acknowledgments