Question

I followed some tutorials to debug and lint php code through VIM.

Here is my piece of PHP code to test

<?php echo "test" echo "test2";?>

The following code worked for me:

:autocmd FileType php noremap <C-L> :!$HOME/bin/php -l %<CR>

It tells me that there is a syntax error.
Problem is that i want to use the quickfix console. So, here is the code:

set makeprg="php -l %"
nmap <F9>:make<ENTER>:copen<ENTER><CTRL>L

F9 opens the quickfix window, but detects no syntax error. (I save my php document before with :w)

Thanks for your time !

Answer 1

The problem i see is using " w/ :set. I suggest the following:

:set makeprg=php\ -ln\ %
:set errorformat=%m\ in\ %f\ on\ line\ %l
nnmap <f9> :sil! make<cr>:cwindow<cr>

To make this a bit more friendly with other file types I suggest you put the following in your ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/php.vim and making sure you use :setlocal and your mappings have <buffer> attribute like this:

:setlocal makeprg=php\ -ln\ %
:setlocal errorformat=%m\ in\ %f\ on\ line\ %l
nnmap <buffer> <f9> :sil! make<cr>:cwindow<cr>