Integrating new version of PHP in NetBeans

Question

A month ago PHP 7.1 was released. I've just installed it in my system, running '#php -version' returns me 'PHP 7.1.0' so everything is working fine. But at the time to create a new project in NetBeans, it only allows me '7.0' and the lower 5.X versions I've been looking for an option to update the new version of PHP in NetBeans but I didnt get a thing.

Other details: Debian 8 stable system. PHP7.0 and previous 5.X versions had been installed through 'apt-get', but PHP7.1 through './configure && make && make install'. NetBeans was installed via sh script (not 'apt-get').

Any ideas?

Answer 1

NetBeans needs to provide PHP 7.1 support by itself, it cannot leverage installed PHP versions. And unfortunately latest NetBeans 8.2 does not support PHP 7.1.

If you want to see it happen, please vote and consider contributing on https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=268317

Answer 2

The latest version of the PHP plugin was not in Apache Netbeans 9.0 plugin update center list. However, it was in Apache Netbeans 9.0-rc1's list. I'm not sure why it was left out. To get it in 9.0, you need to add the appropriate plugin repository to your Netbeans plugin update center list. This is done by going to Tools-Plugins and clicking the settings tab and adding the following update centers to the list.

NOTE: I'm not sure which one had it - maybe someone else knows for sure or can explain how the different centers are now organized. Whatever the case, many of the latest versions Netbeans plugins (not just php) can be found in one or some these repositories. Again, I personally don't know which one or ones are now updated. I just added them all...

Name: Additional Development Plugins URL: http://updates.netbeans.org/netbeans/updates/dev/uc/final/main/catalog.xml.gz

Name: DukeScript Update Center URL: http://dukescript.com/downloads/netbeans/8.2/updates.xml

Name: Latest Development Build URL: http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nbms-and-javadoc/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/nbbuild/nbms/updates.xml.gz

Name: Netbeans Distribution URL: https://netbeans.apache.org/nb/updates/9.0/updates.xml.gz

Name: Netbeans IDE 8.2 Update Center URL: https://updates.netbeans.org/netbeans/updates/8.2/uc/final/distribution/catalog.xml.gz

Name: Plugin Portal URL: http://plugins.netbeans.org/nbpluginportal/updates/9.0/catalog.xml.gz

Name: Plugin Portal 8.2 URL: http://plugins.netbeans.org/nbpluginportal/updates/8.2/catalog.xml.gz

Answer 3

Build 880 i just installed and seems to work in general but probably not at all :)

Its netbeans 10 incl. php7.2 and php7.3 support (BETA! all in one packages)

https://builds.apache.org/job/incubator-netbeans-linux/

Answer 4

I succesfully followed https://github.com/czjvic/php-7.1-for-netbeans-8.2 using the Netbeans 10 PHP modules.

You can find the latest Netbeans 10 build here:

https://builds.apache.org/job/incubator-netbeans-linux/lastCompletedBuild/artifact/nbbuild/

Download the file named like NetBeans-dev-incubator-netbeans-linux-881-on-20181022-release.zip.

From my backup, I also needed to copy the file org-netbeans-modules-php-dbgp.jar.

Answer 5

PHP 7.1 is now available under the NetBeans 9.0 Beta, I managed to import all my plugins from 8.2 without a problem but beware it is a development version and it sometimes is a tad slow, but at least it has support for nullable return types etc.

NetBeans 9.0 Beta Download