Atom-beautify: HTML inside PHP file

[kylerdmoore]

I understand that php-cs-fixer is used when beautifying a php file and that it won't beautify html because it is simply not php and I also understand that you can't just make php-cs-fixer also fix html because its a third-party thing. But there is no way to beautify html that lives inside a php file?

I would like to suggest maybe adding an option where it will beautify the highlighted text with the beautifier you want. For example if i'm in a php file and I highlight a bunch of html then right click, hover over beautify contents where another list drops down where you can select php-cs-fixer or js-beautify or whatever script you want to use on the selected text.

I also want to say nice job, this thing is really sweet and amazing when I do CSS and JS. For now I have another file name formating.html where I'll copy the html into, beautify it and copy it back. I'm definitely open to any other suggestions should they work any nicer.

[prettydiff]

Somebody would need to extend php-cs-fixer so that it can parse HTML apart from its PHP code and then these HTML fragments to a different beautifier.

[jason-engage]

Seriously why doesn't this work out-of-the-box? PHP files tend to have lots of html embedded.

[Glavin001]

Seriously why doesn't this work out-of-the-box? PHP files tend to have lots of html embedded.

@jason-engage : This is a question for https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/PHP-CS-Fixer . I recommend asking it there.

[Glavin001]

But there is no way to beautify html that lives inside a php file?

@kylerdmoore: I think https://github.com/Glavin001/atom-beautify/issues/457 will address this once it is ready.

I would like to suggest maybe adding an option where it will beautify the highlighted text with the beautifier you want.

Maybe https://github.com/Glavin001/atom-beautify/issues/27 is what you're looking for.

[Glavin001]

I am going to close this as a duplicate because there are other issues which are aimed at solving this problem with PHP+HTML and similar issues. I recommend subscribing to those issues and providing any feedback you have. Thanks!

[prettydiff]

I should look at extending Pretty Diff's JavaScript parser to also support PHP. I have a PHP issue in Pretty Diff to open parsing to third party (non-JavaScript/non-Node) libraries asynchronously. Extending support to PHP would be a far easier solution than revising the architecture of the entire application even if it opens superior scaling benefits.