prettier for php vscode

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Core prettier does not support PHP¹, and thus neither does the plugin for VSCode/VSCodium. Luckily the designers of prettier seems to have thought of this and implemented a plugin system².

According to the prettier-vscode repo, all you need to do to use a plugin is to add it and prettier to your package.json³

So for php support your package.json would need to contain:

{
  "devDependencies": {
    "@prettier/plugin-php": "0.14.3",
    "prettier": "2.0.5"
  }
}

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Core prettier does not support PHP¹, and thus neither does the plugin for VSCode/VSCodium. Luckily the designers of prettier seems to have thought of this and implemented a plugin system².

According to the prettier-vscode repo, all you need to do to use a plugin is to add it and prettier to your package.json³

So for php support your package.json would need to contain:

{
  "devDependencies": {
    "@prettier/plugin-php": "0.14.3",
    "prettier": "2.0.5"
  }
}

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Prettier for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files

change your settings.json

  "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode",
  // add this code 
  "[php]": {
      "editor.defaultFormatter": "bmewburn.vscode-intelephense-client"
  }

The settings use Intelephense as the formatter for PHP files and use Prettier as the formatter for all other files.

Now I use Shift + Alt + F to format the files like everybody else.

if you dont know ho to open setting.json lets see : I usually just press ctrl + , to get to settings and then click the "Open Settings (JSON)" icon that appears in the top right hand corner under the title bar Here's another option... VS Code: How to open settings.json file? How can I open Visual Studio Code's 'settings.json' file?

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GitHub - prettier/plugin-php: Prettier PHP Plugin · GitHub

For example, if you are using PHP 7.4, but the plugin is set to PHP 8.3, it will produce code that uses features not available in PHP 7.4. A comment // prettier-ignore will exclude the next node in the abstract syntax tree from formatting. ... The official prettier plugin for vscode supports plugins since Version 1.10.0.

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Formatting PHP code in vscode, using prettier, on save

No one should ever format on save, on projects where you work in a team, it will be an never ending whitespace war. And it will seriously pollute your VCS diff's with unrelated whitespace changes, and potentially create conflicts along the way. Please don't.

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