how to recognise .inc files as php

[michaellenahan]

Hi there - thank you for such a great plug-in!

I'm using gedit for drupal development, and need to have these file extensions recognised as php, so that I can view the source code symbols when looking at these file types as well.

.engine
.inc
.module
.theme
.install

I think I need to configure the ctags setting on my machine (Ubuntu 12.04)

I tried the tip here: http://www.koumbit.org/en/articles/using-exuberant-ctags-drupal ... but it doesn't work ... I'd be grateful for any pointers.

[MicahCarrick]

I believe the langmap argument is the right approach, but, I haven't done it myself. You would set it in the plugin settings as the ctags command. I think there are also ctags config files you can put in the home directory, but I'm not sure. It's been a while. I'll keep this issue open until we can confirm.

[coderpatros]

Hi Michael. I was in the same boat as you so I made a fork which has support for overriding ctags language detection by using the current gedit highlighting mode. You can find my changes at https://github.com/patros/gedit-source-code-browser/tree/language_override

[manxon]

Hi Patros,

I'm also a drupal dev. I just cloned you repository but I still get the empty source code windown problem, do you have any advise?

Ctags 5.9~svn20110310
Gedit 3.4.1
git clone https://github.com/patros/gedit-source-code-browser.git
Ubuntu 12.04

@michaellenahan Did it work for you?

Thank you

Julian

[coderpatros]

Hi Julian.

I didn't have my change merged into the master branch which you would of ended up with after the git clone.

Try a git checkout origin/language_override. I have now merged that change into master but it also includes a fix for Python 3 which I don't think is needed on Ubuntu 12.04 (and it probably won't work either).

[manxon]

Hi Patros

I was a bit desperate to make it work yesterday, so I make it worked by hacking the ctags package in the file php.c and adding the extensions

extern parserDefinition* PhpParser (void)
{
static const char const extensions [] = { "php", "php3", "phtml", "module", "inc", "engine", "install", NULL };
parserDefinition def = parserNew ("PHP");
def->extensions = extensions;
def->initialize = installPHPRegex;
def->regex = TRUE;
return def;
}

Then I did a ./configure, make, make install and worked fine. I'll try your package cause it is a cleaner solution.

Thank you!!