Visual Studio.NET and PHP Coloring

Sunday, February 22, 2004

Tools Tweaks

This post has been moved to http://blog.cumps.be/visual-studio-2008-and-php-coloring/ where you can find more information. (with screenshots!)

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Visual Studio is a great editor! But when editing other file formats I miss the coloring.

I'm a PHP coder as well (coming from the fact that I don't like Classic ASP) and I use VS.NET for editing my PHP files as well. And guess what, that's another file format, so no coloring. But I want it, badly.

So, here's the solution:

Download this .zip file, and extract it somewhere.

Run the registry file that matches your VS.NET editor. (The only difference is the 7.0 to 7.1 from 2002 to 2003).

Now copy usertype.dat to your VS.NET directory (default: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Common7\IDE).

If VS.NET is running, close it and restart.

Now just open a .php file, and admire the coloring. And the '+' signs to collapse functions also work as a nice extra!

16 Comments

nice tool! it's very usefull, thanks!

Dhoore - Sunday, February 22, 2004 2:42:00 PM

very useful

thanks from another php coder ;)

CyberWolf - Monday, February 23, 2004 12:14:00 AM

Thanx to another "open" programmer...

Anonymus333 - Monday, February 23, 2004 3:47:00 PM

hmmm,

I tought i found that one a while back :p

still waiting for the intellisense plugin for PHP :)

Bertg - Thursday, February 26, 2004 10:46:00 PM

WHhhhhaaaa.. YOU SAVED MY DAY !!!!! ") Thank you God,!!

edgecrush3r - Saturday, March 20, 2004 7:50:00 PM

Thank You VERY MUCH!

Mike Knebel - Saturday, March 20, 2004 11:41:00 PM

top job. i'v ealtered the regs file for actionscript *.as files, lovely job.

mike - Monday, April 19, 2004 1:05:00 PM

doesn't work for me on VS 7.0.

david - Thursday, May 6, 2004 6:00:00 PM

Yea, this does not work in Visual Studio .NET 2002. Can anyone help?

Simo - Wednesday, May 19, 2004 12:01:00 PM

I used the "php_edit2002.reg" which is for 7.0 and it did not work.

Simo - Wednesday, May 19, 2004 12:11:00 PM

Nope that doesn't work on 2002 either =(. Is there an update from 7.0 to 7.1 or did us 7.0 owners just get shafted?

Simo - Wednesday, May 19, 2004 12:20:00 PM

VERY COOL!! Now if only I could find the same for .cfm as well.

allegro - Wednesday, June 16, 2004 4:52:00 PM

Doesn't work for me either.

This is because i do not have C# or C++ installed with my VS.NET ....

-- adds -- - Friday, June 18, 2004 3:13:00 PM

THANKS!!! Works great for me in VS 2002. :o)

ASP.Confused - Wednesday, July 28, 2004 12:40:00 PM

Thanks, cause it works in VS2005. Yay!

Second Executive Assistant to the Emperor of Omicron Persei 8 - Thursday, February 1, 2007 6:45:01 PM

If you come across this looking to color code php in VS2005 there's a simpler way.

Go to Tools>Options>Text Editor
Type 'php' into the 'Extension:', change 'Editor:' to 'HTML Editor' then click Add then OK.

Open a php file and it will be color coded.

Catalyst - Monday, February 5, 2007 6:52:33 AM

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