Include Path?

DanielUlfe

Hello,

In VS Code, is there a way to add an "include path" so PHP Tools intellisense can find code outside the project structure?

Thank you.

JakubMisek

Hello and sorry for the delay.

Currently, we don't have a way of including files outside the workspace directory.

We'll prepare a workspace setting for that in a future update. As of now, this feature is only supported in the full Visual Studio.

Andy

Hello,
Any updates on this?

JakubMisek

b3_1987 Andy

We have pre-released version 1.12.10030 with the php.workspace.includePath setting.

Thank you for your feedback!

JakubMisek

Thank you for reminding us @Andy.

We will look into it. Although, VS Code does not allow extensions to access files outside the workspace (we would have to work-around it and it would only work on some systems)

The recommended solution is to Add Folder to Workspace. The IntelliSense should then parse the content of it as well.

Anyways; something like includepath setting would be better I guess - we'll try to implement this as well.

b3_1987

It's strange that you say VS code doesn't allow this. Intelephense does this already and it's a must use feature for any developer.

Is there any chance that your VS Code integration will ever be brought to an usable state? Currently, it's much worse than the free version of Intelephense, while also being more than half the price of phpstorm. I would be OK to pay the price if the feature set was at least equal to what you offer for Visual Studio.

JakubMisek

b3_1987 Thank you for your feedback.

We'll be adding the includepath setting as noted in the previous post. I'll move it higher on our to-do list.

Also please note, that all the basic functionality of phptools for VS Code can be used for free (we're preparing the detailed list of features soon).

I would like to ask for more details about what is worst or what is better? This would help us to improve the experience for you and other users.

You can always check the list of our features at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=DEVSENSE.phptools-vscode and that we're constantly improving and updating regularly at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/DEVSENSE.phptools-vscode/changelog

I'm appreciating your feedback, and thank you again for any more information and for testing future versions of our extension!

Zack92

IncludePath setting works perfect, but there is an issue that can be problematic:
In "include folder" I have some third party libs shared among all projects on the server. I thing it is a common scenario.
The problem is that it is possible to change a method name that comes from that shared lib by refactoring (F2) while working on one of the projects. Of course other projects will fail and future update of this shared third-party lib will reset changed method name..
I think files included by php.workspace.includePath should be read only. Or in perfect world there should be also a setting "php.workspace.includePathIsReadOnly" t/f

JakubMisek

Zack92 that makes perfect sense!

We can treat symbols from include paths as they should be double-checked. This makes VSCode open a tool window with all the replacements so you have to confirm that.

Or/And we can make the setting so includePath files will be readonly as well.

Let me think about it!