Change LSP settings in BBEdit for Intelliphense

Introduction

Recently having moved to BBEdit, one thing that drove me crazy was the formatting using intelliphense (PHP) would automatically use PSR12 (default) where it puts the curly brace on a new line.

Say what you will about code style and all but I wanted K&R.

In VSCode this is trivial, edit the config, add a line and done. In BBEdit, not so quick!

The setup

Once you have intelliphense set up properly in BBEdit - see this page and search for “php”: https://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/lsp-notes.html

Got to ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/

You should see a folder Language Server, in there you’ll find probably something for intelliphense such as storage.

See if there is a Configuration folder or create it. In there, create a php.json or whatever you’d like to call it, to hold your intelliphense config.

So the file is ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Language Servers/Configuration/php.json

Here is my final json

{
	"initializationOptions":
	{
	},

	"workspaceConfigurations":
	{
		"*":
		{
			"intelephense":
			{
				"format": {"braces": "k&r"}
			}
		}
	}
}

Change the k&r to your preferred format. I’ve used this emacs reference to find the settings name: https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/page/lsp-intelephense/#lsp-intelephense-format-braces

Save it, restart BBEdit.

The usage

• Open the BBEdit preferences (cmd+comma),
• go to Languages and at the bottom in Language-specific settings:
• click the +, select PHP in HTML
• double click the new item in the list
• go to the Server tab
• Configuration: pick your json name, e.g. php

Restart BBEdit and the next time you format code, your braces should be as you intended!

HTH.