Option to indent PHP code based on the HTML around it

[mpivchev]

Hello. I have a problem with the PHP code not indenting properly. What happens is every time I type "<?php" all the code after this line does not indent. I tried removing all the plugins , same thing. Here is an example:

[mpivchev]

Anyone ?

[TomMalbran]

That is how it works. The indentation level doesn't depend on the indentation of <?php. It just depends on the indentation of the rest of the php code inside that file.

You can add the preference "startIndent": false and every line is indented with the same indentation as the previous line. But you loose some of the automatic indentation.

[mpivchev]

Well that's a little stupid, it should indent properly like everything else...

[TomMalbran]

Notice that the html is inside the php code, not the other way around. So is not that stupid how it works. It just doesn't work as you want it to work, and might not even be an issue to other developers.

I don't mix php and html (is not a good practice) and when I need to I mostly need just 1 line. So this doesn't affect me. If you are also creating a function that outputs html. You might want the php code to align, and not have it aligning itself inside the html blocks.

Anyway. Brackets uses CodeMirror to render the editor, and this is an issue with how the smart indentation works in php in CodeMirror, so it will need to be fixed here. You can submit an issue there if you want.

[TomMalbran]

Is there are CodeMirror issue we are tracking here? Or someone needs to create it?

[redmunds]

@TomMalbran I am not aware of a CM issue on this. I did a quick search but did not find one.

[innovaweb-dev]

Hi all,
I have the same problem, the news about it?

[juliancesar]

I have the same problem! Any news?

[klarkc]

+1

[marcelgerber]

Just submitted the CodeMirror tracking issue codemirror/codemirror5#3488

[marcelgerber]

This will work as described beginning in Release 1.5.
Closing.

[vidukapoor]

php code writing error.

[mikael1000]

I have 1.5... and it don't work. This should be fixed!
However you get a little better experience if you do the hack with { and }:

But that's a bad way to have to do this.

[ficristo]

@mikael1000 Brackets align the code at the same level of <?php: so it's indented.
In general I think it should indent one more time but I don't know enough of php to say it's the right thing to do.
Since I can reproduce the "issue" on the demo page of CodeMirror you should file a bug there.