PHP Remote Interpreter

[aftabnaveed]

PHPStorm has an awesome support for remote PHP Interpreters. You can develop on a Windows PC or a Mac while running and debugging on a remote Linux server. PHPStorm has this feature out of the box
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/configuring-remote-php-interpreters.html.

Having a remote interpreter allows you to use other cool PHP utilities such as phpcs, composer and many others.

Remote interpreters can either be integrated using Docker containers or via SSH. This is something which is holding us back from VSCODE.

[roblourens]

This is covered by #29194

[vscodebot]

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[aftabnaveed]

Well, this not the same, executing code on the remote server is different than just exploring files on it.

[roblourens]

That issue covers a bunch of remote language server scenarios. Remote debugging is already supported by this php debug extension: https://github.com/felixfbecker/vscode-php-debug

I think the two of those should cover all of PHPstorm's remote cases?

[aftabnaveed]

That is an XDebug feature which is not specifically related to VsCode. However, I found similar issue created for python here microsoft/vscode-python#79.

Executing code on remote allows you to run other utilities such as PHP code sniffer and composer on the server. Most people use either docker or Vagrant environments for their projects.

[roblourens]

Sure, those will either come with the first issue I posted (remote language server, extension host, etc) or could be handled as 1-offs by extensions. I don't foresee any specific support in vscode core for this, our builtin PHP support is very simple and we leave everything else up to extensions.

[aftabnaveed]

I see remote code execution to be shared among different environments and almost all JetBrain IDEs such as Webstorm, PHPStorm, PyCharm, Rubymin etc has this feature by default that's why I thought it is something in the core of the JetBrain IDEs which is shared and available among all its platforms.

Anyway, I thought this is something which would have been nice to have.