Recent Posts by Petr Pisl

Last week I wrote article about code folding in PHP editor. Yesterday I have improved a little the custom fold. Now it allows to define, whether the fold will be by default collapsed and also the description of the fold. From the picture should be clear that the custom fold is defined via element <editor-fold>, which can have two optional attributes. The attribute defaultstate with the value collapsed, says that the fold is collapsed when the file is opened. If you don't use...

Our team has reached the feature freeze for NetBeans 6.5. It means we will concentrate mainly on stabilization, bug fixing and improving performance. And this is where you can really help us. How? Try a development build or NetBeans 6.5 M1. NetBeans 6.5 M2 is planned to be published on Aug 11th, so it will be a good idea to switch to it then. If you find any bug or you have feature and enhancement requests, enter them in Issuezilla (you have to be log in). We always appreciate...

This morning I have committed a feature, which offers generating of constructor, getters and setters in a PHP class. To invoke the functionality, the caret position has to be inside a PHP class and you have to press shortcut ALT+Insert (CTLRL+I on Mac). After invoking the shortcut, all possible generators are offered. Let's explain on a simple example. I have very simple PHP class, where I have only two properties - $name and $age. At first I want to add constructor. After...

What is code folding? I have looked for a definition and I have found this at wikipedia: Code folding is a feature of some text editors, source code editors and IDEs that allows the user to selectively hide and display sections of a currently-edited file as a part of routine edit operations. This allows the user to manage large regions of potentially complicated text within one window, while still viewing only those subsections of the text that are specifically relevant during...

In the first part we enabled the debugging PHP scripts under Apache. But when you want to debug a PHP script, which is running in command line, then you have to enabled it in  /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/xdebug.ini in the same way like for Apache. So write to the filexdebug.remote_enable=on You can check it again via running simple script in command line mode. Create a project and replace the content of the index.php script with: <?php phpinfo();?> Select or create new run...

On base of the comments for my previous entry Improving Semantic Coloring, I have update the semantic coloring. You can see the result at the picture.  Based on Mark's comment I have updated: coloring of unused private class fields (line 5) coloring of unused private method (line 16) coloring of static method name (line 24) coloring of unused private static method (line 28) Pcdinh and Anton mentioned that the PHP code should be aligned in same column as <?php open tag. I agree...

I have improved the semantic coloring in the PHP editor this week. In this case one picture is much better then many words.

A few days ago I run in an issue that by default NetBeans doesn't show files which starts with dot, which is exactly the case of .htaccess file. This is the tip how to do it. Go to the Options->Miscellaneous->Files and the content of Ingnored Files Pattern field replace with: \^(CVS|SCCS|vssver.?\\.scc|#.\*#|%.\*%|\\.(cvsignore|svn|DS_Store)|_svn)$|~$|\^\\.(?!htaccess$) If you have already .htaccess in the project and the file is not still displayed, then close the project and...

Probably you have already noticed that Roman Strobl  did demo of PHP editor in NetBeans. If you haven't seen it yet, look here.