Outlining

PHP Editor allows you to collapse the content of functions, classes, namespaces and PHPDoc to have a better overview of your code.

Default Shortcuts

• Ctrl+M, O - Collapse all blocks to definitions.
• Ctrl+M, P - Stop outlining.
• Ctrl+M, M - Toggle outlining.
• Ctrl+M, L - Toggle all outlining.

Collapsible Regions

The following list describes all the code fragments supporting outlining:

• Class body
• Namespace content
• Function body
• Lambda functions
• PHPDoc comment block
• Multi-line comments
• Group of single-line comments
• PHP script tags containing more than one line of code
• PHP content between #region/#endregion or //region///endregion
• Code blocks enclosed in { ... } (since version 1.18)
• Content of switch, case and default (since version 1.18)
• Code enclosed within for, foreach, if, else, elseif (since version 1.18)

Outlining behavior can be modified in PHP language options. To disable automatic outlining of a newly opened file, or to change additional outlining options, go to Tools | Options | Text Editor | PHP | Advanced.

Outlining Code Blocks

Outlining code blocks has to be enabled in Tools | Options, under Text Editor > PHP > Advanced.

#region Outlining

Single line comments starting with the region keyword are treated as the start of collapsible region, and are matched with a following endregion comment. Regions can be nested. Alternately, the user can specify the region name after the region keyword.