PHP Tools transparently integrate into Microsoft Visual Studio, and extend it with the support for PHP language. The extension is focused on developer productivity respecting conventions. It understands your code, provides smart code completion, quick navigation, syntax error checking, integrated PHP manual, project system, debugging support and more. PHP Tools for Visual Studio brings seamless analysis of source code within PHP projects. In addition to IntelliSense improvements, this feature gives you smart code validation which underlines unused variables, type mismatches, dead code and other suspicious constructs in your code. Well-Known IDE Microsoft Visual Studio IDE Version control support (TFS, Git, SVN, ...) Integration respecting conventions Automatic updates & Easy installation High performance environment Smart PHP editor Full PHP 7.0, 5.6, 5.5, 5.4 support PHP IntelliSense, code completion Function parameters assistant Go to definition (F12) Shows embedded documentation Visual Debugging Breakpoints in PHP and jаvascript Inspect variables, watches Immediate Window Multiple session debugging Integrated PHP manual PHP functions&constants&classes Integrated documentation Search available symbols while typing PHPDoc support Code Navigation Browse declarations within your solution Quickly search through available symbols Navigate directly to symbol definitions Navigate To, Class View, Object Browser, ... HTML/JS/CSS support Visual Studio HTML Editor Syntax Highlighting, Schema validation Formatting, Outlining, Commenting Full IntelliSense Web Essentials Support Code Editor Syntax coloring, Customizable Fonts&Colors read more Smart Indentation Document Format, Selection Format, Format on Paste, Format on closing brace and semicolon Bookmarks Code collapsing, #region/#endregion collapsing Brace Matching, Matching symbol highlighting Smart brace completion (Visual Studio 2013 and later) Comment/Uncomment code Full Unicode support and line ending configuration PHP 5.5 support Peek to Definition Custom additional file extensions, e.g .php5, .phpt PHPDoc support, autogenerating on /**, smart indentation Find/Search replacement within projects and solutions. Supports regular expressions and wildcards. IntelliSense Integrated PHP manual, Go to Help (F1) Complete help support using PHP manual and PHPDoc comments Word Completion (Ctrl+Space) Go To Definition (F12) Function Assistance showing parameters, default values and description Tool Tip Assistance showing summary on mouse hover Dynamic context-aware IntelliSense for PHP Autogenerated view for PHP manual functions, classes Debugging Xdebug support, Multi-session debugging, Remote debugging PHP, j@vascript and .NET debugging at once Automatic installation of PHP from Web Platform Installer Supports built-in PHP server, IIS Express and custom server Breakpoints, Conditional breakpoints Step Into, Step Over, Step Out Quick Watch support, Add To Watch Edit values at run-time Watch, Autos, Locals, Immediate Window Call Stack Window Text View, HTML View, XML View of variables value Team Collaboration Support for built-in version control providers PHP Projects version controlling Team Foundation Server, Git, SVN, and more Seamless integration with the project system Source Control Explorer Work Items Check-in History HTML Editor in PHP files Support for HTML, jаvascript and CSS in PHP files Code colorization Code collapsing IntelliSense Formatting, Smart Indentation, Real-time code validation HTML schema validation Support for add-ins like Web Essentials Design View, Split View, Code View Code Snippets (Ctrl+K,S and Ctrl+K,X) Commonly used code fragments as snippets Integrated in IntelliSense (Tab) Automatically formatted snippets Snippets with editable spans Context-aware editable spans completion Custom code snippets Publish Publish PHP project to file system, FTP, FTPS, SFTP Publish before run Incremental publish Quick publish of selected files and directories Support for opening FTP Web Site and uploading files On Save Composer integration Viewing and managing installed composer packages in Solution Explorer Browsing and installing new composer packages in the GUI Composer output pane in the IDE Composer in MsBuild process Project System Multiple projects withing solution Run or Debug multiple projects at once Configurable environment Project referencing Configurable project run options standard MSBuild project system Item templates, Project templates NuGet packages support