PHPDevelopmentPlanNB71
PHP Development Plan for NetBeans 7.1
Author: Petr Pisl
Version: 0.1 - draft
This document is a collection of ideas that should be done in NetBeans PHP support area during NetBeans 7.1 time frame. Probably not every feature, item will be done, but it's mentioned to track it for next releases.
Editor
Priority
| Task
| Notes
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P1
| Stabilizing, decrease number of bugs. Increase performance.
| There are 520 open defects in the editor area
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P3
| Fast import like in Java
| When there is used an PHP Class though code completion, then should be automatically inserted use statement for the class
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P3
| Implement code folding for code statements
| The current code folding works for classes and methods/functions. Users are asking for code folding of code statements like if, while.... . See issue 186731
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P3
| Support of PHPUnit tags in PHPDoc
| Issue #189983
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P3
| Adding coding styles
| There are many formatting options for PHP files. There should be formatting profiles, that can be saved per projects. See for example issue #188785
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P3
| Update PHP Parser
| The current PHP Parser doesn't reflect some corner cases of PHP 5.3. The parser should be uptodate.
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P3
| Improve error handling
| The current error handling is based mainly on the parser errors. Messages from parser are not very understandable for users. This situation can be improved through introducing a logic that will try improve the error handling.
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P3
| Improve finding code completion context in broken code
| The code completion is based on the parser result if the code is ok. When the code is broken, then cc is based on lexer tokens. This can be improved to provide better code completion.
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P4
| Highlight pars for alternative syntax
| Like for standard syntax there is highlight { and } for while, if etc, it can be also highlighted for alternative syntax. See issue #164347
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P4
| Improve sanitizetion of the code
| Many ide features are based on the parser result (AST tree). Unfortunately the code in editor is the bulk of time broken, and the AST can not be build around the parser error. There is already used way to sanitized the code (correct virtually the code) that provides better ASTs. There can be added other cases to improve it.
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P4
| Improve handling of long strings
| When there is pressed ENTER key inside a string, then the string should be concatenated like in Java editor.
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P4
| Allow to customize PHP Documentation generation
| The current generating of PHP Documentation before classes and methods / functions is hardcoded. According the user requests, this should be configurable.
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Project
Priority
| Task
| Notes
|
P1
| Regenerate PHP runtime signature files
| Provide new signature files for binary libraries. The current collection of signature files is almost three years old and should be refreshed.
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P4
| UI for PHP turn on/off signature files
| Provide ui, which allows to exclude and add the signature files from include path.
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Refactoring
Priority
| Task
| Notes
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P2
| Extract Method
| It's highly requested feature, see issue #183807
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Frameworks
Priority
| Task
| Notes
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P3
| Provide a possibility to add simple code completion for a PHP framework
| This feature should allow to simply define an items for code completion though an simple configuration file. See issue #182655(16 votes)
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P3
| Support Yii framework
| issue 181301 (244 votes)
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Debugger
Priority
| Task
| Notes
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P2
| Zend Debugger support
| issue #168275 (19 votes)
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