Open file in PHP editor

README.md

1. create a route for accepting reqeust to open
2. create a controller and call launchEditor() from out there
3. fix link in twig/html
4. it requires working server to accept requests, so launch the server.

note It uses ??-operator so it's PHP7.0+

controller-action-for-opening-in-editor--WINNT.php

<?php

/**
 * launchEditor
 * @see the reference is - https://github.com/yyx990803/launch-editor
 * @param null $filename
 * @param null $lineNumber
 * @return string|null
 */
function launchEditor($filename = null, $lineNumber = null){

    /** @see https://github.com/yyx990803/launch-editor  for more */

    function runPowerShellCommand($cmd){
        return shell_exec('powershell -Command "' . $cmd . '"');
    }


    function guessEditor(){
        $COMMON_EDITORS_WIN = [
            'Brackets.exe',
            'Code.exe',
            'atom.exe',
            'sublime_text.exe',
            'notepad++.exe',
            'clion.exe',
            'clion64.exe',
            'idea.exe',
            'idea64.exe',
            'phpstorm.exe',
            'phpstorm64.exe',
            'pycharm.exe',
            'pycharm64.exe',
            'rubymine.exe',
            'rubymine64.exe',
            'webstorm.exe',
            'webstorm64.exe'
        ];

        #  getting list of processes, i.e. "exporer.exe   \nchrome.exe      \nphpstorm.exe       \n"
        $output = runPowerShellCommand('Get-WmiObject  Win32_Process  | select path');

        $runningProcesses = explode("\n", $output);

        foreach ($runningProcesses as $fullPath) {
            $fullPath = trim($fullPath, " \r"); #  in case if we have \r\n line separators
            
            if (!$fullPath)
                continue; #  sometimes line's empty

            $baseName = basename($fullPath);

            #  if file's in list of editors - return full executable path.
            if (in_array($baseName, $COMMON_EDITORS_WIN)) {
                return $fullPath;
            }
        }
        return '';
    }

    $editor = guessEditor();

    $filename   = $filename    ?? $_GET['filename']  ?? '';
    $lineNumber = $lineNumber  ?? $_GET['line']      ?? 1;

    if (!($editor && $filename))
        return null;

    //  $commandLine = sprintf('cmd.exe /C "%s" --line %s "%s"',
    $commandLine = sprintf('"%s" --line %s "%s"',
        $editor,
        $lineNumber,
        $filename
    );

    system($commandLine);

    return $commandLine;
}


public function openEditorAction(Application $app) {
      # launching only in dev environment
  
      if (PHP_OS !== "WINNT")
          throw new NotFoundHttpException("No such Page ;)");

      $launched = launchEditor();

      return "Launched $launched.";
  }

link-snippet.twig

<abbr title="{{ exception.class_fqn|default('unknown') }}">{{ exception.class_name|default('unknown') }}</abbr>
</code> in <code>
{#  simply calling javascript with ajax request  #}
<abbr title="{{ exception.file_path|default('unknown') }}" onclick="url=('//SITE/_open-editor?filename={{ exception.file_path|default('unknown')|url_encode }}&line={{ exception.object.line|default(1) }}'); var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhr.open('GET', url); xhr.send(null); return false;">