VS Code php tag autocomplete

Question

kind of trivial question but here it goes. I can't figure out why VS Code autocompletes (with tab) all html tags correctly while php tag not. When i type "php" and hit tab, it creates this:

<php></php>

which is useless and i have no idea why it's there. I want it to do normal php tag

<?php ?>

I have turned off suggestions as they were distracting me. Anyway to edit default/top "tab autocomplete" item?

Answer 1

this hack worked for me: go to 'Preferences: Open User Snippets', and paste this snippet into the html (yes, that's html) user snippets:

"php": {     "prefix": "php",     "body": [         "<?php $1 ?>"     ],     "description": "php tag" } 

Answer 2

I would elaborate on Lane's answer by putting the final cursor represented by $0 in a new line between the tags. In the snippet, each comma inside the "body" array represents a new line.

So in Visual Sutiio Code go to File > Preferences > User Snippets search for "html.json" and edit it by pasting this:

{   // Place your snippets for html here.    "php": {     "prefix": "php",     "body": ["<?php", "$0", "?>"],     "description": "php tag"   } }