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ShaneTurner's avatar

Sublime Text Workflow

You've shown us how you use PHPStorm, but you appear to use Sublime Text almost as much. A similar run down of your setup, workflow, and recommendations for using Sublime Text would be awesome!

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kylestev's avatar

+1! I'd love to see what plugins Jeffrey uses for aiding with redundant tasks in PHP -- creating class members when in a constructor, for example.

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bashy's avatar

Not so much plugins but snippets and actions that he uses. :)

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sukonovs's avatar

Jeffrey somewhere said he uses phpstorm and vim. Only videos I have seen him using ST are old TutsPlus courses.

bashy's avatar

There's a mixture of all three on here. PHPStorm, Vim, Sublime Text

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isimmons's avatar

Would like to see a updated ST series since the old one on tutsplus. "How to be awesome in SublimeText 3"

I just installed the php companion plugin and have no idea how to use it but will get it figured out I guess. Still I'm sure @JeffreyWay has a ton of other tricks figured out with it :-)

JeffreyWay's avatar

Don't bother watching that old series.

I'll do a new one for Laracasts soon. I have lots and lots of new tricks.

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cbil360's avatar

Yup @JeffreyWay PHPstorm is great but paid! Sublime is the first love.It would be great to see one soon.

cbil360's avatar

@frenzo I know that I deal with the pop up daily! :P But atleast its not mandatory(I believe PHPstorm wont work after 30 days at all).And yes I will definitely get a sublime license soon.Ohh ..and I believe sublime is cheaper too!

zeerrgggg's avatar

A most definite +1!

Although Jeff's PHP Storm skills are of a wizardly calibre, ST is my flavour.

ohffs's avatar

I switch between sublime and vim so would really like to see any tips on PHP'ing with them. I'd like to use PHPStorm more for it's refactoring features, but it's astonishingly ugly and slow on Linux (without doing way, way more work than I want to spend 'fixing' a paid-for program).

At the moment I have sublime3 with Package Control, SublimeLinter + it's PHP module, TrailingSpaces, Phpcs, DocBlockr, Emmet and PHP Companion.

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ohffs's avatar

As an extra note, I've started using phpmd + the sublime plugin for it - mostly just for its 'unused variable' spotter. Also, phpcs really gets very, very messed up with 'invalid' php (I'm using the phpleague 'plates' engine for a project just now and phpcs quite often consumes all of my ram and I have to manually kill it and the plugin process on sublime, which is a bit of a bummer).

zachleigh's avatar

Excellent! Ive been looking forward to this one.

jekinney's avatar

Storm is slow on windows and mac compared to SB. Not just Linux thing. Luckily I have and edu account so I didn't have to pay for storm. I didn't like it much. Stupid got hub errors......

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