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PHP Development Plan

This document contains a compilation of features, which will be available in the PHP support. The features are split in the main three categories according, when they could be done. The first important mile stone is a technical preview for Java One 2008. The second category contains features, which will be implemented for version 1.0 and the third category contains a list of features, which can be added in the future.

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JavaOne 2008

There is a list of features which will be available in a technical preview for JavaOne 2008.

Editor

All editor features are targeted for supporting PHP 5. We are not going to support PHP 4.

Feature	Priority (1-3)	Document	Owner	Current State	Comment
PHP Parser	1		Petr Pisl		Many features in editor depends on this feature
Coloring Lexer	1		Petr Pisl	done in M1
AST builder	1		Petr Pisl	done in M1
Coloring
Syntactic coloring	1		Petr Pisl	done in M1	QA can test opening php files, editing and a right coloring of php language
Semantic coloring	2		Petr Pisl	in progress	QA can test the coloring of class name and method name,
Mark Occurrences		PHPMarkOccurrences	Jan Lahoda	90%
Code Completion		PHPCodeCompletion
CC in local context	1		Tomasz Slota	done in M1
CC in global context	1		Tomasz Slota	done in M1
CC for PHP platform	1		Tomasz Slota	done in M1
CC in include/require			Jan Lahoda	done in M1
Dynamic Help	2	PHPCodeCompletion	Tomasz Slota	done in M1	needs to be improve for M2#133837
Code Folding	2		Petr Pisl	done in M1	It folds code blocks of classes, methods in classes, functions, phpdoc and php multiline comment
Bracket Matching	3		Vita Stejskal	done in M1
Navigation
Go to Declaration		PHPGoToDeclaration	Jan Lahoda	done in M1
Go to Type			Jan Lahoda	done in M1	PHP elements should appear in the Go to Type dialog - has troubles with case (in)sensitivity
PHP Palette	3		Petr Pisl	done in M1	HTML palette is enabled and associated with the PHP editor. No PHP items are planed.

Infrastructure

Feature	Priority (1-3)	Document	Owner	Current State	Comment
Project infrastructure
New Project wizard	1	UI Specification	Tomas Mysik	done in M1	possibly will be changed for M2. The changes will be based on the UI study.
Project Customizer	1	UI Specification	Tomas Mysik	75%
PHP Include Path API	2		Tomas Mysik	done in M1
Project actions	1		Tomas Mysik, Radek Matous	done in M1
PHP Options	2	Mockup	Tomas Mysik	done in M1
New PHP file wizards	1		Tomas Mysik	done in M1	possibly there will be needed a changes to allow choose extension
Logical project view	1		Tomas Mysik	done in M1
Local development support	1			done in M1
Basic Remote development support	3	UI Specification	Tomas Mysik	in progress	Contains mainly downloading and uploading files from a FTP server
Out of the box experience	3			in progress	Mainly dialogs with help/links how to set up servers, debugger etc.
Sample PHP projects	3			done in M1	Bundle sample projects and provide a wizard to create them

Debugger

Feature	Priority (1-3)	Document	Owner	Current State	Comment
xDebug integration	2		Radek Matous	done in M1	QA can test basic debugger functionality toggle breakpoints, starting/stopping session, step into/over/out, run to cursor, adding watches, watching local variables and so on. Needs to be done UI and integration improvements.
Web server debugging	2			done in M1	Local PHP web page debugging should work and can be tested

Refactoring

In the preview it would be good to have a preview of refactoring like renaming php files and folders.

Feature	Priority (1-3)	Document	Owner	Current State	Comment
Local variable rename	not staffed		Jan Lahoda	done in M1
PHP File Find Usages	not staffed		Jan Lahoda	done in M1
PHP file and folders rename	not staffed		Jan Lahoda	done in M1

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Version 1.0

There are features, which will be available in the version 1.0 of PHP support.

Editor

Feature	Priority (1-3)	Document	Owner	Current State	Comment
Code Completion	PHPCodeCompletion
CC for known attributes	2		Tomasz Slota	in progress	Like cc in include ("") etc.
CC in comments (PHP Doc)	2		Tomasz Slota	done in M1
PHP Hyperlink / Goto source	2		Jan Lahoda	done in M1
Navigator	2		Petr Pisl	done in M1
Code Templates in CC	3		Vita Stejskal	done in M1
Code abbreviation	3		Vita Stejskal	done in M1
Indentation	2		Tomasz Slota	in progress
Formatting	3		Tomasz Slota	in progress
Error Annotations	2		Petr Pisl	in progress
Code snippets / palette	3		Petr Pisl	not started yet
PHP Font and Colors in Editor Options	2		Petr Pisl	not started yet
Comment / Uncomment PHP code	3		Tomasz Slota	done in M1
Automatic Insertion (brackets, braces, PHPDoc)	3		Tomasz Slota	done in M1

Infrastructure

Feature	Priority (1-3)	Document	Owner	Current State	Comment
Encoding of PHP files and project	2		Tomas Mysik	done in M1
Remote development support	2	UI Specification	Tomas Mysik	in progress
Out of the box experience	3			not started yet	Auto configuration on some platforms, installer, etc.
Sample PHP Projects	3			done in M1
Wizard for generating new php class / interface	3			not started yet
Goto File Support	3			done in M1
Goto Type Support	3			done in M1
PHP Manual Integration	2			not started yet
Providing data for NB statistics	3		Tomas Mysik	done in M1	The goal of this feature is find out, how many people really use the php support in NetBeans

Debugger

Feature	Priority (1-3)	Document	Owner	Current State	Comment
Local debugging	3		Radek Matous	done in M1	Basically it means to support debugging local scripts

Remote file transfer protocol support

This is not connected to the php support directly. So there should be a project independent support fro remote systems. Such support should contains a viewer of the remote file systems with possibility to use the connection information in NetBeans projects.

Feature	Priority (1-3)	Document	Owner	Current State	Comment
Regular FTP support (passive/active)	2		Tomas Mysik	in progress
Secure FTP support	2			not started yet
FTP over SLL	3			not started yet

Refactoring

Feature	Priority (1-3)	Document	Owner	Current State	Comment
PHP Elements Find Usages	2		Radek Matous	done in M1	Like Class, functions, global constants.
PHP Elements Rename	2			canceled
Code Generation support	3			canceled	Getters and setters, override and implements function

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Future

There is a compilation of features, which can be a part of PHP support in the future. It's also includes improvements in the features, which will be available in the version 1.0.

Editor

Feature	Priority (1-3)	Document	Owner	Current State	Comment
Formatting	3				This is about real reformatting code, not only about re-indentation.
PHP Hints	3	PHPVerification	Tomasz Slota

Infrastructure

Feature	Priority (1-3)	Document	Owner	Current State	Comment
PHPDocumentor support	3
PHP Unit testing support	3
Displaying data at http://statistics.netbeans.org	3
Tasks support	3

Refactoring

Feature	Priority (1-3)	Document	Owner	Current State	Comment
PHP File Safe delete	3
PHP Elements Save delete	3
PHP File Move	3
PHP Elements Move	3				Like move a php file to another file, etc.

Remote file transfer protocol support

Feature	Priority (1-3)	Document	Owner	Current State	Comment
Tunneling Support	3
Support for other Remote FS	3				SCP, Windows FS, Linux FS, Samba ...

Other possible futures

• PHP code analyzer
• PHP Profiller
• PHP Code coverage
• Integration with Web Services
• Java Bridge integration
• PHP Frameworks support
• SQL DB support integration
• More snippets

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Competition

There is a table that compares list of features, which will be available in version 1.0, with competition.

Feature	NetBeans	ZendStudio for Eclipse	PDT	Comment
Editor support
PHP 4 support	N	Y	Y	There is decision that we are not going to support PHP 4
PHP 5 support	Y	Y	Y
Syntax Coloring, Code Completion	Y	Y	Y
Code Folding	Y	Y	Y
Error detection	Y	Y	Y
Bookmarks	Y	Y	Y
Goto Source	Y	Y	Y
Automatic Insertion (brackets, braces, PHPDoc)	Y	Y	Y
Matching Bracket	Y	Y	Y
Comment / Uncomment PHP code	Y	Y	Y
Basic Code Formatting	Y	Y	Y
Advanced Code Formatting	N	Y	N
Code Generation support	Y	Y	Y	Getters,Setters,override,implement
DnD From Open Explorer Files	N	Y	Y
JavaScript support in PHP files
Syntax Coloring	Y	Y	Y
Code Completion	Y	Y	Y
Navigator	Y	Y	N	Zend Studio has html/php/javascript in one outline. We will have separate outline for all embedded languages
Code Folding	Y	N	N
HTML support in PHP files
Syntax Coloring	Y	Y	Y
Code Completion	Y	Y	Y
Navigator	Y	Y	N	Zend Studio has html/php/javascript in one outline. We will have separate outline for all embedded languages
Code Folding	Y	Y	Y
Drag and Drop HTML Components	Y	Y	Y
Design (WYSIWYG) editing	N	Y	N
Infrastructure
PHP Project infrastructure	Y	Y	Y
New file wizards	Y	Y	Y
Goto File	Y	Y	Y
Goto PHP Element	Y	Y	Y
PHP Manual Integration	Y	Y	Y
File Navigator	Y	Y	Y
Project Navigator	N	Y	Y
Tasks support	N	Y	Y
Problems View	N	Y	Y
Project Include Path definition	Y	Y	Y
Encoding Support	Y	Y	Y
Deployment
Local Deployment	Y	Y	Y
File Content Transfer	Y	Y	N
FTP	Y	Y	N
SFTP	Y	Y	N
SSL communication	N	Y	N
Tunneling Support	N	Y	N
Refactoring
Rename of files, folders	Y	Y	N
Rename of php elements(class, function, global variable)	Y	Y	N
Debugging
Web Server Debugging	Y	Y	N
Local Debugging	Y	Y	N
PHP Executable Profiler	N	Y	N
Web Server Profiler	N	Y	N
Code Coverage	N	Y	N
Source control
Local History	Y	Y	Y
CVS	Y	Y	Y
Subversion	Y	Y	N
Mercurial	Y	N	N
Miscellaneous
PHP Unit testing support	N	Y	N
PHP code analyzer	N	Y	N
RSS Reader	N	Y	N
Web Services support	N	Y	N
PHPDocumentor Support	N	Y	N
Java Bridge	N	Y	N
PHP Zend Frameworks integration	N	Y	N
PHP Frameworks integration	N	N	N

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