Visual Studio Code and php

This is a very basic example of a PHPLint task for Visual Studio Code. It's not very difficult, but you will see that everything works.

It takes a more complex regex to correctly identify which lines are errors, which are warnings, and which don't matter at all.

{
    "command": "C:\\phplint\\phpl.bat",
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "args": [
        "C:\\Code\\index.php"
    ],
    "problemMatcher": {
        "fileLocation": ["relative", "${workspaceRoot}"],
        "pattern": {
            "regexp": "^(.*):(.*)$",
            "message": 1
        }
    }
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

I am using a custom task matching to parse the PHPLint output. The pattern has a regex that parses the output of PHPLint and then a list of what is at each position (in this case, I'm treating the entire string as a "message" - a little too basic, but you get the idea).

This is essentially how you create a task for anything you can get from the command line.