#sublimelinter

SublimeText for PHP Development

SublimeText one of the most widely used text editor. It’s not just a text editor, if you are ready to manipulate it, it can give you the power of an IDE like Netbeans, Eclipse or MS Visual Studio. I have been using SublimeText for Web Development for a long time. As far as I know, this is the best Text Editor I have ever used. SublimeText for PHP Development needs some extra packages/plugins.…

1. Make sure that node.js is installed on your system. 2. Install JSHhint. From your command line run the following command (add -g to install globally on your system): 

npm install jshint

3. Run your Sublime Text, open Command Palette with Ctrl+Shift+P and type package control or install. Among the commands you should see Package Control: Install Package. If that command is not highlighted, use the keyboard or mouse to select it. 

4. A plugin list will appear, type jshint. Among the entries you should see SublimeLinter-jshint. If that entry is not highlighted, use the keyboard or mouse to select it.

If the plugin is successfully installed you should see the following message

Restart your Sublime Text, That’s it! Now JSHint works in your Sublime Text editor!

To see how JSHint reacts, you can open a Javascript file and remove a semicolon for instance, an Error: Messing Semicolon will be displayed in the bottom of the window.

Aparajita Fishman recently release SublimeLinter 3 which finally brings this fantastic linter to people who were using the old version with Sublime Text 3.  Perviously, you had to manually install SublimeLinter 2, jury-rig it to work.  Even then it was a bit buggy. I’m happy to say, after using it for the past two days, that the new Linter works fantastically with Sublime 3.

The big difference between the new SublimeLinter 3 and the old version is you now have to install the linters you specifically want whereas the old had most of the major ones built-in.