---
title: "VSCode for PHP and Laravel"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/vscode-for-php-and-laravel-hssav4gt2
source_url: https://dev.to/sean_kegel/vscode-for-php-and-laravel-lnk
type: article
source: "DEV"
author: "Sean Kegel"
published: 2023-08-23T20:32:27.669Z
updated: 2023-08-24T17:00:08.382Z
tags: ["webdev", "typescript", "php", "laravel", "visual-studio", "tailwind-css", "vscode"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 47
comments: 6
language: en
---

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# VSCode for PHP and Laravel

**[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · [@sk138](https://daily.dev/sk138) · 7 min read · 47 upvotes · 6 comments

## Summary

VSCode for PHP and Laravel development is a solid base configuration that can be expanded upon using additional workspace specific configurations. Intelephense is the most important extension to install for PHP support. Phpactor is a PHP Language Server with more features than you can shake a stick atphpactor.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@mourishitz** · 2 upvotes

> Closest PHPStorm build I've seen so far. Thanks for sharing that, it may help a lot of non-students who work with Laravel and don't have Jetbrains access!

**@gherbetto** · 1 upvotes

> The title should be: Turn VSCode into (almost) PHPStorm for $0 😁👍

**@moped** · 1 upvotes

> I just cannot get used to PHPStorm, so I'm stuck with VSCode, mainly working on WordPress plugins, but sometimes I do Laravel stuff too. After introducing profiles in VSC I created a dedicated profile for Laravel and had some of those extenstions installed, but this tutorial is really nice and I actually learned something new. Great!

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Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#typescript](https://daily.dev/tags/typescript), [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), [#laravel](https://daily.dev/tags/laravel), [#visual-studio](https://daily.dev/tags/visual-studio), [#tailwind-css](https://daily.dev/tags/tailwind-css), [#vscode](https://daily.dev/tags/vscode)

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