Bug 214709

Provide me some case, when it's a valid feature request? Then simply reopen this request. I can't imagine anyone. Thanks.

Templates weren't designed to be expanded inside strings and such afaik.

Maybe the template word is a little confusing. I mean "Code Templates".

For example:

Keys pressed: "e" then "tab"
Result: echo '[cursor-is-here]';

Then keys pressed: "a" then "tab"
Result: echo '<a href="#">Text</a>';


In the previous version I used (7.0.1) this worked. Is there a chance, to make this work again? This little feature saves me a lot of time. 

Thanks.

+1

I used this extensively in use cases similar to this:

Abbreviation: ST
Expanded Text: {$$this->${var}}

This made it easy to insert a property of the current object into a string using php's complex/curly syntax for variable parsing.

e.g. When I wanted a string similar to "{$this->prop} blahblah", I just had to type:
"ST<tab>

Netbeans automatically entered:
"{$this->var}"
selected var, and displayed a popup list of the current object's properties for replacement.

There are many other similar use cases. e.g. s --> {$$${var}}

I see Netbeans Java now has this feature (see http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=135468). Javascript must have it too since there is a Javascript Strings Code Template Language type.

Hopefully these use cases will help other users improve their productivity with Netbeans when this is fixed (currently targeted for 7.3 - thanks).

Agree completely. 

I'm also using this feature constantly every day in PHP/HTML/JavaScript so turning it off forced me to stay with 7.0.1. I even expand templates on space instead of tab because I use it so frequently. 
As PHP programmer I rarely type plain text in code (texts are mainly in mySql databases or definition/configuration files). PHP programs generate html/javascript code so html/javascript commands are mainly inside strings and not regular words.

For instance i need:

$output = '<a href="" onclick="doThis(); return false">click</a>';

in 7.0.1 which I'm using now I type this:

$output = 'AH

which expands to:

$output = '<a href="{cursor}"></a>';

then I type (in right cursor positions): 
onc -> onclick="{cursor}"
retf -> return false;

In versions higher than 7.0.1 I can't do this.

So I think it should be an option to turn on/off OR inside strings it uses code templates for plain text? I prefer first option.