Setting Up PHP on Neovim with NvChad

Mohammed Q. Hussain — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 16:53:04 +0000

Note: Tested and Worked with NvChad v2.0

Installing PHP's Language Server: `phpactor`

While in Neovim's command mode, execute the command :Mason to run Mason package manager.
Inside Mason, search for phpactor, an easy way to do that is through the search command "/phpactor".
Once you find it and the cursor is on its name, press "i" to install it. PHPActor requires Composer, make sure it's available on your system.

Configuring `phpactor` Properly on NvChad

After installing phpactor you need to edit NvChad's configuration file. The required configuration file will be found on the path ~/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/configs/lspconfig.lua.
- Please note that the path of Neovim's configuration directory (which is ~/.config/nvim by default) may be different in your system, for example, if you installed Neovim through Flatpak, its path will be ~/.var/app/io.neovim.nvim/config/nvim.
In "lspconfig.lua" and just before the last line which is "return M" add the following lines to configure phpactor and make it run.

require("lspconfig").phpactor.setup {
  root_dir = function(_)
    return vim.loop.cwd()
  end,
  init_options = { 
    ["language_server.diagnostics_on_update"] = false,
    ["language_server.diagnostics_on_open"] = false,
    ["language_server.diagnostics_on_save"] = false,
    ["language_server_phpstan.enabled"] = false,
    ["language_server_psalm.enabled"] = false,
  }
}

For some reason, I don't know why and I'm not sure if I'll dedicate time to find why, phpactor reported errors inaccurately for me, something like "The function 'foo' is not found" while 'foo' is there in the same PHP file. Due to that I've disabled PHPActor's diagnostics through setting "false" for the options "language_server.diagnostics_on_update", "language_server.diagnostics_on_open" and "language_server.diagnostics_on_save" in the code above. Feel free to enable them if you need and that's done by removing their lines or change "false" to "true" for them.

Finally, exit Neovim and run it again, try to edit a PHP file and phpactor should run now.

[Book] A Journey in Creating an Operating System Kernel: The 539kernel Book

Mohammed Q. Hussain — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:26:47 +0000

Hello All,

I've released a new book titled "A Journey in Creating an Operating System Kernel: The 539kernel Book" and it's available for free on https://539kernel.com

This book teaches the reader how to create an operating system's kernel called 539kernel. The reader will learn how to implement multitasking, paging and a filesystem through this book.

539kernel is a simple x86 32bit educational kernel which has been written especially for this book.

Chapters of The Book:

Introduction
Chapter 1. Let's Start with the Bootloader
Chapter 2. An Overview of x86 Architecture
Chapter 3. The Progenitor of 539kernel
Chapter 4. Process Management
Chapter 5. Memory Management
Chapter 6. Filesystems
Chapter 7. What's Next? References

To read it, here: https://539kernel.com

Forem: Mohammed Q. Hussain

Setting Up PHP on Neovim with NvChad

Installing PHP's Language Server: phpactor

Configuring phpactor Properly on NvChad

[Book] A Journey in Creating an Operating System Kernel: The 539kernel Book

Installing PHP's Language Server: `phpactor`

Configuring `phpactor` Properly on NvChad