PHP Tools transparently integrate into Microsoft Visual Studio, and extend it with the support for PHP language. The extension is focused on developer productivity respecting conventions. It understands your code, provides smart code completion, quick navigation, syntax error checking, integrated PHP manual, project system, debugging support and more. PHP Tools for Visual Studio brings seamless analysis of source code within PHP projects. In addition to IntelliSense improvements, this feature gives you smart code validation which underlines unused variables, type mismatches, dead code and other suspicious constructs in your code.

Scale up to huge projects, big teams and large binaries

Work with teams with hundreds of developers on the same project.
Develop projects with huge binaries and unmergeable contents (like game development and simulation)
Handle large codebases with more than 500k files, and thousands of revisions and version control operations will still be fast
Enforce best practices with fine grained security.
Store everything on robust and standard databases.

*Big - if you’re building large scale software, involved on a project that is critical to your company, you’ve to handle huge files or need to run complex merges, then Plastic SCM can help you keeping things under control.