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Improving PHP Auto-Complete in Notepad++

Currently, whenever you type "<?php" at the top of a new PHP file, Notepad++ comes back with the following recommendations:

• php_egg_logo_guid
• php_ini_loaded_file
• php_ini_scanned_files
• php_logo_guid
• php_real_logo_guid
• php_sapi_name
• php_strip_whitespace
• php_uname
• phpcredits
• phpinfo
• phpversion

None of which are what you actually want and if you click return after the second "p", Notepad++ complete it to the first recommendation, "php_egg_logo_guid".

php_egg_logo_guid is an easter egg function in PHP that's similar to php_logo_guid though like php_logo_guid it was removed as of version 5.5.0.

What this patch file does is adds a new entry to the auto-complete dictionary with the string "php", which will be the new top recommendation for the entered string "<?php". That way it will still be auto-completed but to the correct string. That's better.

Usage

1. Locate the PHP auto-complete dictionary file included with Notepad++ called php.xml, typically located at %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Notepad++\plugins\APIs\php.xml.
2. Apply the patch to that file using a patch(1)-compatible utility.

php.patch

--- php.original.xml	2014-12-06 16:28:15.000000000 -0500
+++ php.xml	2014-12-06 16:27:42.000000000 -0500
@@ -10331,6 +10331,7 @@
 				<Param name="[int options=PGSQL_DML_EXEC]"/>
 			</Overload>
 		</KeyWord>
+		<KeyWord name="php" func="no"/>
 		<KeyWord name="pg_version" func="yes">
 			<Overload retVal="array">
 				<Param name="[resource connection]"/>