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You can use Scrutinizer (free for Open Source projects) or SensioLab Insight (from those guys of Symfony and Twig, free -> limited version) or CodeClimate (free for Open SOurce projects) for that, directly in your GitHub repo.

Here you can see a comparison, instead, between Code Climate vs. Scrutinizer vs. SensioLabsInsight.

SensioLabInsight is very powerful, I can say.

Have a look also to http://alternativeto.net/software/sensiolabs-insight/
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I've been using Visual Studio Code for several weeks now and I find it a pleasure to use. Even it's from Microsoft, it's open source, free and available on all platforms (My OS is Ubuntu) It's part of their charm offensive, "we're not so bad after all". There is some integration with git, which is nice.

https://code.visualstudio.com/

I tried also Atom for a while but it is slow (how can a code editor be slow?) and it becomes unresponsive from time to time. So I'm not so positive up till now about Atom.
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My extension "Template Events" will continue as "Show phpBB Events". The new name is because it shows now also all phpBB-core PHP events that get triggered when you load a page.
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List updated, thanks.

I personally I use Visual Studio Code for Angular development and the extensions available for the variety of languages it supports make it a very capable IDE even for PHP.
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Sajaki wrote: Sat Jan 02, 2016 7:51 pm It automatically tells you what functions are deprecated.
How do you get that info?

It smells a little bit that PHPStorm in not on the list, although it has been mentioned in this thread a few times and in the coding styleguideit is a recommendation.

BTW, if you are afraid of the money: You can always use the dev-version, just have to upgrade every month.

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24unix wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2020 4:49 pm after 12 months you get a perpetual License.
But only for the version that you initially bought.
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There's just about nothing that PhpStorm does that is not possible in VS Code. Plus, as has been mentioned, it costs money. Even if you paid monthly you're looking at a minimum of slightly over $100 just to get a perpetual license whereas VS Code is free. If you want to spend the money on PhpStorm even though you don't need to then that's your decision. Not going to give them free advertisement though.
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PHPStorm is not from MS, that would be worth even 1000 $.
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@24unix,
phpStorm also lets you know if a function is tagged as @deprecated.
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When I follow the function by cmd-click I can read it in the docs, but not like in your screenshot.
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will one of the tools listed in the first post compare multiple css files and merge duplicate classes? also need this to be offline. there's a few online tools but offline/portable is what i'm looking for. and i'm not looking to minify them, just merge multiple files combining duplicates

edit: i already have Beyond Compare but it won't do exactly what i'm looking for without hours of manually merging

also, paid or free don't matter
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In the OP there is WinMerge - I looked at that some years ago and was not overly impressed but it has probably improved by now.

I use, and have done for some time, Araxis Merge - not free but very quick and easy to use. There is a professional version that will allow comparing/merging three files, but it is mega bucks.
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david63 wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:57 pm In the OP there is WinMerge - I looked at that some years ago and was not overly impressed but it has probably improved by now.

I use, and have done for some time, Araxis Merge - not free but very quick and easy to use. There is a professional version that will allow comparing/merging three files, but it is mega bucks.
thanks for the reply but Araxis does basically the same thing as Beyond Compare. it will replace but not really merge like i'm looking for. the only thing i've been able to find also compresses or minifies the css during it's merge process which i do not want. WinMerge, i'm in the same boat as you, i looked at it some time ago and was not impressed at all and have never looked at it again :lol:

an exact breakdown of what i want follows...

you have .wrap class in more than 1 file like so

file 1

Code: Select all

.wrap {
	border: 10px;
}
file 2

Code: Select all

.wrap {
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
}
after merging the 2 files you end up with 1 .wrap class in 1 file with the following

Code: Select all

.wrap {
	border: 10px;
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
}
i know what i'm trying to do is not really that complicated and i'm certain that there is something out there that will do what i want but cannot find it :roll:
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david63 wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:57 pm In the OP there is WinMerge
My recommendation here. I haven't used it to merge files, but that functionality is there.
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