PhpStorm how to detect/highlight closing "tag" in PHP's alternate syntax of contol structures

Question

Pretty much what the title says. Is there a way to make PhpStorm highlight the closing "tag" when using PHP's alternate syntax for control structures?

Take a look at this sample code for example:

<?
if($x==5) {
    echo "x is equal to 5";
}
?>

If i put the cursor next to or before the opening/closing brace, PhpStorm will automatically highlight the matching opening/closing brace.

Now, if we write the same code but this time using PHP's alternate syntax for control structures, we end up with something like this:

<? if ($x==5): ?>
x is equal to 5
<? endif; ?>

In this case, PhpStorm will not highlight either the opening "if" or the closing "endif;". Is there a way to make it highlight it?

Answer 1

Unfortunately current versions of PhpStorm cannot do that.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-14517 -- watch this ticket (star/vote/comment) to be notified on any progress. So far it has not been associated with any specific future version (not currently planned for implementation).

Related: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-566

Answer 2

The 2017 version of PHPStorm now supports it. But apparently they are having issues with it that they turned off this feature, they did not mention what the issue is though. But you can still enable it by going to: Find Action->Registry->php.brace.alt.syntax

See response here Alternate PHP syntax