Formatting PHP Code within Vim
Solution 1
Quick way to fix PHP indentation in vim is to visually select the lines you want to work with using shift-v, and then press equals (=) to trigger auto-formatting.
As for other formatting issues you're probably looking at employing some regex search and replaces, such as :%s/^M/\r/g
(that's ctrl-V ctrl-m, not caret-M) to fix line endings
Solution 2
Enter normal mode in vim and then type
1GVG=
Solution 3
Format in PSR-2 style
For the new standard Coding Style Guide PSR-2 use the PHP-CS-Fixer.
There is a Vim plugin: Vim-php-cs-fixer
How to install:
Install PHP-CS-Fixer
(globally with Composer
):
composer global require friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer
Then add the Vim plugin (Pathogen
):
cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone [email protected]:stephpy/vim-php-cs-fixer.git
Restart Vim.
Default mapping:
<leader>pcd " For directory
<leader>pcf " For flie
Solution 4
There is a vim plugin that enables formatting on your code from within vim. It's called vim-autoformat and you can read about it and download it here:
https://github.com/vim-autoformat/vim-autoformat
It integrates external code-formatting programs into vim. When this plugin is installed, you only have to install an external code formatter to get everything to work out of the box. It supports the php formatter phpCB, which is the best php formatter i've seen so far.
UPDATE: phpCB is not supported anymore, due to code breaking behaviour. However, vim's indentfile is always used as fallback, allowing you to at least indent your code when there's is no formatter available.
Solution 5
The vim website is not the easiest to navigate, but there is a wealth of chewy nougat center there.
For instance I found this php indenting script there. Give it a try.
gacrux
Updated on July 14, 2021Comments
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gacrux almost 3 years
I'm currently using Vim as a lightweight IDE. I have NERDTree, bufexplorer, supertab, and ctags plugins which do almost everything I want. Only big thing missing for me is auto code formatting.
I'm working with some messy PHP code which has inconsistent indenting and code formatting, ideally I could highlight the code I want formatted (whole files would be fine too) and run a command to tidy it.
Does anybody have a nice solution for this working in Vim?
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gacrux almost 15 yearsI can't believe I didn't know about equals auto-formatting years ago, that's really useful. For the formatting issues I could build some custom regex's, I guess I was hoping someone had already done (and tested) it.
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Whaledawg almost 15 yearsProtip: ggvG= will select every line in the file and autoformat
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recluze almost 13 yearsLove the shift-v + = shortcut. This is going to save me some headaches. Thanks a lot. How do I give more votes to you :)
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wormhit over 12 years1G - goes to first line; V - switches to visual mode; G - goes to end of file; = - auto format selected code;
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puk about 12 years
gg=G
is slighlty easier (less capslock) -
chtenb over 11 yearsActually this command triggers the functionality in the indent script. It only reindents the code, no complete reformatting.
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zx1986 almost 9 yearsWOW! simple & powerful!
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Pascal Luxain over 8 yearsIf you want to format a whole paragraph at once, let's say a function or method, press
vip=
.vip
will select the paragraph in visual line mode (from anywhere in the function) and=
will set the indentation properly. Note that=
will set the indentation, not auto format the selected text as adding spaces before or after parenthesis, brackets, etc. -
Pascal Luxain over 8 yearsEven better, I just discovered
=ip
indents a paragraph directly (=
-> indent,i
-> inside,p
-> paragraph) -
Jun Hsieh over 6 yearsTo run php-cs-fixer automatically after the file is saved, add the following line in ~/.vimrc:
autocmd BufWritePost *.php call PhpCsFixerFixFile()
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Randy Lam almost 5 yearsI would use
ggvG=
instead also for the record they are the same thing -
ako over 4 years
gg
: Cursor to line N, default first line -
Mahdi mehrabi over 3 yearsI get the error
E117: Unknown function: php_cs_fixer#fix
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ODelibalta almost 3 years@Mahdimehrabi Same here, any luck?