Plugins to make PHP coding easier and efficient in (g)Vim?

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e.g. Error detection/highlight, debugging, etc?

@alexchenco: it was a joke addressed to the fact that there is no pixie dust and each developer should fix errors manually. — zerkms
– zerkms, Commented Mar 10, 2011 at 3:43
Simple syntax error detection is certainly possible. But doesn't vim already have syntax highlighting? (This is were I would surmise such an feature.) — mario
– mario, Commented Mar 10, 2011 at 3:45
Also a PHP xdebug client for vim exists already: tech.blog.box.net/2007/06/20/… — mario
– mario, Commented Mar 10, 2011 at 3:48

franzlorenzon · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-18 08:22:34Z

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For error detection, there is no miracle, but Syntastic is a good start.

If you have installed xdebug, then you can use :

Also, there is a package with some PHP config/plugins all-in-one, PIV, but I prefer installing plugins one by one.

Finally, the best advice would be to first install Vundle, so that you can then do this :

:BundleSearch php

Then yank the plugins results you're interested in, into your .vimrc, then

:BundleInstall

And you can test these plugins in no time. And launch :BundleClean after removing lines in your .vimrc if you don't like the plugin.

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answered Mar 12, 2011 at 11:49

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Mesagoma · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-25 23:38:08Z

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I found the free book 'A Byte of Vim' very helpful. It contains descriptions of a useful set of plugins.