PHP Tools for Visual Studio does not recognize processwire

[Marcel Stäheli]

We recently got the Visual Studio 2017 plugin PHP Tools for Visual Studio by Devense for php development.

Unfortunately the plugin does not recognize processwire. I imported all website files into the PHP-Project so there is no file missing. But files are not being prepended, variables like $page are undefined. The plugin works fine with regular PHP code.

I'm not sure where the error lies. Do I have to configure PW specifically or are the two simply incompatible?

Has anybody experience with this plugin?

[dragan]

You might want to use the functions API (just literally discovered it myself seconds ago...)

https://processwire.com/blog/posts/processwire-3.0.39-core-updates/#new-functions-api

 

[Marcel Stäheli]

It now displays the function information (phpdocs) correctly. But I still get errors when debugging that the functions are undefined.

 

Thanks for that link though, I didn't know about that.

[Marcel Stäheli]

I found a solution.

In case someone else has this problem in the future: One has to explicitly use an apache server for it to work. Processwire requires "mod_rewrite" which is not present in php build-in and it seems neither it is with IIS-express. So in the "project settings->server" choose "custom" as server and enter the project url.

I used xampp to run the apache server and mysql database. Make sure xdebug is installed in the php-installation of xampp.

Now php tools reads all PW variables and functions properly, no need for page() (still good to know that it exists).