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Netbeans PHPUnit Code Completion

daniel — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:48:38 +0000

By default, Netbeans dosen’t do code completion for PHPUnit classes even though it includes support for PHPUnit. Thankfully, adding in the code completion support is very easy. Simply go to Tools>Options>PHP>General and then click “Add Folder” under the Global Include Path section. Then navigate to where your PHPUnit install is located. (on my system, /usr/share/php/PHPUnit). By adding this folder, the PHPUnit classes will be included on all projects. Naturally, if you just wanted this to apply to a single project, you could do something similar by clicking on the project and choosing “properties”.

PHP Output Buffering (with HTML)

daniel — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:00:01 +0000

Over the past year I have made heavy use of PHP output buffering. Although it serves no function purpose, it can make for much more readable code; I have found it particlarly useful for outputting HTML from methods. Consider the following code example:

As you can see, using output buffering makes the html much easier to read (especially thanks to Netbeans code highlighting). With short examples, the difference is negligable, but when you have large amounts of html in a php method, using output buffering can make the code a lot more maintainable.

Wordwrap in Netbeans

graham — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:14:20 +0000

To enable the wordwrap functionality in Netbeans IDE. Go to Tools >> Options and then click the Editor then Formatting tab. On the “Line Wrap” drop down click “After Words.” Wordwrap is now enabled.