Friday, January 31, 2014

Setting Up Sublime Text

Overview

For editing PHP files you can use any text editor, but I like to use Sublime Text. It has some nice features that really helps with development and you can try out the free trial to see it in action.

You can get a free trial of Sublime Text at www.sublimetext.com/2


Installing Sublime Text Packages


Package Control

First you need to install Package Control. It makes managing your packages easier.

Go to https://sublime.wbond.net/installation and follow the download instructions.

When done, open the Command Pallette with Ctrl + Shift + p

Type install and select Package Control: Install Package from the list.

Type the name of the package you want to install.


Useful Packages

Here is a list of packages that are helpful for Laravel development.


Laravel

Blade Snippets : Snippets for the Laravel Blade templating engine

Laravel Blade Highlighter : Syntax highlighting when editing Blade files

Laravel 4 Snippets : Contains code snippets for Laravel 4

Laravel 4 Artisan : Allows you to run artisan commands in Sublime Sext


HTML

Emmet : Used for quickly creating HTML markup


Themes

Phoenix Dark : A nice dark theme for Sublime. Visit Page


Misc

SublimeLinter : Highlights lines that contain potential errors


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