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What I miss in phpactor

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Created:   2023-08-11
Copyright: CC-BY-SA 4.0
Language:  en

What I miss in phpactor

I has used Vim for coding in python or php since 2008 for 10 years. Then I switched to phpStorm with Vim motions. I did that because of better ecosystem for Symfony projects. All these easy jumpings between definitians and references, easy jump to twig files or routings, at that time we started to add docblocks and phpStorm do that easily. Same things with setters and getters. And the main thing was correct autocompilations and showing errors on the fly. But... it is quite heavy tool and it has a lot of things what I will never use. I'm the fan of minimalism and I am frustrated by all this needless stuff around.

Before switch I was using phpactor[1] as my main helper to code in php. But it was quite young project and time to time I just got into situation that I code only in pure Vim because service is broken. The creator of phpactor Dantleech is awesome but man's time is limitted project went in its temp.

For documentation I was using vim-doge[2]. After some tweaks to templates and some bugfixes from creator Kkoomen I got something similar to behavior of phpStorm.

And now. After 5 years. A lot of has been changed.

First of all - I moved to php 8 and it is reduced the need of documentation.
Improvements in Vim/NeoVim ecosystem. During that time I switched to NeoVim and used it for python or golang and all simple texts editing.
My laptop is old again :)

So, I renewed my config and started to dig about current situation of LSP services for php. I got two options here: intelephense and phpactor. I even bought intelephense license. But after all configurations I was not happy with intelephense because of lack of features and I switched to phpactor.

This time phpactor looks very promising and only have some yearnings for phpStorm features what are missing.

So, what I'm missing (and maybe I will try to fix them)

Missing

easy jump to twig from php or twig
easy jump between routing config and controller
add use during import (maybe I haven't figured out it yet)
generate getter with prefix *is* for booleans
use ClassName instead *self* for setter on fluent generation
working with different php versions (docker version) [broken again]

Fixed

None yet.

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