PHP(Storm) Formatting inside twig templates

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#1

Does anyone know how to get PHPStorm to recognize PHP inside the “==” tags?

Seems like it’s not got the highest priority (opened 9 years ago) by PhpStorm themselves:
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-27668/Support-for-partial-PHP-syntax-highlighting-in-a-file

I looked and couldn’t find any octobercms plugins for PHPStorm either… Strange as it’s such a popular framework and coding in PHP inside the template functions is painful (no syntax highlighting/autoformatting):

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Only other (sucky) way I can think around it is to include external php file within the template function (?)

#2

Unfortunately, there’s no good way. use VSCode for this very reason with this extension: OctoberCode - VS Code extension

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#3

Oof that’s a shame (see Maarten’s last comment on the youtrack thread above, he’s absolutely right). Would be amazing if the OctoberCode author (@ksv :pray: ) can do one for PhpStorm :smiley:

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#4

There’s really nothing special about it, except I think JetBrains only supports hard-coded hybrid templating, such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in the same file.

They don’t appear to offer the ability for user-land combinations, which would be:

HTML + PHP + Twig = .htm extension

These syntaxes don’t conflict, so it is reasonable and easy to do with most editors. The INI syntax with == divider is just a bonus.

Perhaps there is some technical limitation within JetBrains codebase which prevents this?

To clarify, this is all that is needed

<?
function thisIsPhpFunction() { /* syntax */ }
?>
<html>
    <body>
        {% if true %}
            <p>This is {{ twig }} syntax</p>
        {% endif %}
        <script> 
            function thisIsJavaScriptFunction() { /* syntax */ }
        </script>
        <style>
            body.this-is-css { background: orange; }
        </style>
    </body>
</html>
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