3.4
Remove proCSSor because the API service has been cancelled
3.3
Small bugfix for Prefs window layout
Internal structure improvement
Fix (improbable) memory leak
3.2
Validate PHP syntax before performing PHPtidy
Minify CSS
Updated CSSTidy
Preferences window improved (links to twitter/fb/donate)
JS Hint: Many more options
JS Hint: Respect line endings, whitespace warnings now correct
JS Tidy: Respect line endings
3.1
JS Tidy now also configurable
proCSSor bugfix
Respect Tabs/Spaces where available
Automatic Update (finally..!!)
Improved validation results
JS Hint updated
PHPTidy improvements
JS Hint: Remove (quite useless) "unsafe character" warning
Result window looks cooler now
Modularized the code
Modularized the code
Prefs window improved
3.0
Use selection
Growl (and growl-like) notifications
Results as floating window
More preferences for PHPTidy
HTML online validation: Included three validator settings
Drop curl, use cocoa instead
Use JSC call instead of shell script
JShint preferences
Improved preferences layout
Bugfixes, lots of
Nearly complete code rewrite
2.7
Show an short message after updating (only once)
Updated CSSTidy to 1.3.1
HTML Validate output improved
HTML5 support
aka workaround for tidy
JSLint replace by JSHint (upgrade, kind of)
Preference for PHPTidy: Fix statement brackets
2.6
Preferences for PHPTidy: New lines, Whitespaces, Comma spacing
Bugfix for umlaut conversion with JSTidy
2.5
Set CSS Level for validation (2, 2.1, 3)
Configure PHPTidy braces placement
2.4
Warning message (incompatible plugin) improved
Before accessing proCSSor, check if incompatible plugin present
2.3
TidyCSS update (current SVN)
W3C online response much more readable
Check for incompatible SBJsonParser
Error messages improved
Updatecheck circumvents cache now
2.2
New: Beep only for PHP validation
Preferences window now remembers the open tab
Preferences window revamped (again..)
Shortcuts also shown in the preferences
HTML Tidy version in about window now modified if "use internal" is changed
Improved some tooltips in the preferences
2.1
New: procssor.com configurable
New: JSBeautifier included
About window now part of the preferences
Preferences window revamped
Code clean-up
Shortcut for JS Beautifier
2.0
New: Encoding automatically selected
New: Custom HTML tidy configuration
New: Included a more recent HTML tidy binary
New: procssor.com online service included (experimental)
Goto line now works correctly with different line endings
Line endings now respected in HTML tidy, CSS tidy and PHP tidy
HTML tidy version shown in the about page
Preferences window new layout
JS lint now correctly handles backslashes
Error messages improved
Message sheet layout improved
1.9
New: JS Minify
HTML Validation report window now can be close without the annoying "Save Changes"-question
"Reveal in Finder" bugfix at preferences page
Donation button in the about window (Hint: click it :)
1.81
CSS tidy now handles CSS3 values starting with a dash (-)
Keyboard shortcuts for CSS tidy and Preferences
Some code clean-up
1.8
Javascript Lint (JSLint) now included
Update check now daily instead of each time Coda starts
New CSS tidy configuration: Sort attributes
1.7
HTML tidy now configurable (in the Preferences) !
Preferences are automatically saved
Bugfix when saving Coda Prefs
1.62
Automatic update check now in the background (asynchronous)
CSS tidy now configurable (in the Preferences) !
Less intrusive error-messages on connection failures
1.6
User Preferences
Automatic check for updates
CSS tidy integrated
Structured Menu (aka Submenus)
Using the HTML-tidy version delivered with OSX (PowerPC compatible)
Redesigned the error- and "validation okay"-sheets XCode-like
More encodings: ASCII, UTF-16, Windows CP-1252
All functions use the current buffer contents now
Error messages not explicitely state their origin
Updated phptidy to current version 2.10
1.4
W3C-Validation online for HTML-files
W3C-Validation online for CSS-files
Help button (on the about sheet) now opens this page
1.31
W3C-Validation service, 1st try
1.3
Improved Sheet display
Bugfixes
1.13
Validate HTML (via tidy)
Jump to error line – if PHP validation finds an error
Check for Updates (in the about-box)
File encoding can be chosen
Nice sheets, no more of those ugly alert-boxes
Menu items are only available if they should be
Lots of code cleanup
More useful “About”-dialogue, link to the plugin homepage
0.96
"About.."-dialog
Improved exception handling
Bugfixes
0.9
New features: HTML tidy, Strip PHP, PHP tidy
Included HTML Tidy
Included phptidy
Bugfixes
0.85
Bugfixes, dialogs updated
0.8
Initial release
Coda PHP & Web Toolkit
One thing I noticed and this is affecting another plugin I use. When validating HTML and have code collapsed it doesnt seem to register that content while validating.
Yes, that’s a bug in the Coda 2 API – I already reported it to Panic and I assume it will be fixed in the next Coda 2 update.
Really nice work, but there are some issues.
First one, when doing html tidy on selection, selected code gets wrapped with empty html page template: http://d.pr/i/Qa4H
Second one, menu items are duplicated: http://d.pr/i/HKl1
For the first issue select “body only” as html tidy style in the plugin preferences.
The second issue seems like the plugin might be installed twice (see #3 here – or it’s a bug in Coda 2.
OK, solution for html tidy works partially, but when I selected tr, selecetion got also wrapped with table: http://d.pr/i/CZz9
Don’t have problems when selecting divs
Yes, that’s the drawback of HTML tidy – which is more suited for formatting/validating complete HTML files than for indenting code blocks.
If I find another (open source/free) solution which can be integrated, I’ll of course do it.
Thank you so much for the quick update for Coda2 !
Hello!
First I’d like to say: This is the best plugin for Coda ever!
Now to my question: Is there a possibility to change the CSS-Tidy option, where the last semicolon gets deleted.
* {
-moz-box-sizing:border-box;
-webkit-box-sizing:border-box;
box-sizing:border-box
}
thank you ind advance
You can change this manually:
- Go to (your user folder)/Library/Application Support/Coda/Plug-Ins/
- Right click on “PhpPlugin.codaplugin” and select “Show Contents”
- Open the file “Contents/Resources/csstidy.php”
- Change true to false on line 2128: $this->settings['remove_last_;'] = true;
Please note that this modification will be overwritten as soon as the next plugin is installed (so you have to do it again..). More options for CSStidy would be a nice idea, but currently I don’t have enough time to implement this also. Is on the todo list..
Amazing! thank you!!
Mario, feedback on a possible bug (using 3.5beta2 on Coda 2).
PHP validation is not calling a syntax error in function arguments, like this:
function mchammer($cant, $touch; $this) {
etc
}
That semicolon after $touch does not trigger invalid syntax.
Just wanted to let you know.
Works correctly here. I have tried this file and the latest beta reports correctly “Parse error: parse error, expecting `’)” in – on line 2″..:
mario i was using 3.5beta — now I installed beta2 and you’re right, it triggers the error – thanks
The Best Coda Plugin.
Works like a charm in Coda 2!
Thanks
Thanks for this excellent plugin, I’ve been using in Coda1 for ages, and was impressed with your turnaround for Coda2.
One issue I have noticed is that the Javascript tidy feature doesn’t respect line ending semicolons as being optional.
I tend to use a mixture (usually omit semicolons console.log debugging), however with the plugin doing a tidy on the code causes the next line to append to the previous one if no semicolon was used.
eg
var foo = ‘bar’;
console.log(foo)
if (foo == 3) {
console.log(‘baz’)
}
becomes
var foo = ‘bar’;
console.log(foo) if (foo == 3) {
console.log(‘baz’)
}
This is not only untidy – it is invalid javascript.
Thanks for the otherwise awesome plugin,
Zak
This is fixed in the next version (switched to the php-version of js-beautifier, which also removes the 64KB limit).
This worked fine for me on Coda 2! Thank you very much for the upgrade! :-)
Just tried the new version for Coda 2. The PHP validation seems to work fine – as long as you don’t use code folding. Then you get parse errors. Doh!
Have you selected a code block while validating? In this case only the selected block is validated. You can change this behavior in the plugin preferences.
No, nothing is selected. Nothing in the file must be folded, otherwise the validation fails. I think the folded “…”-output is messing up things.
I see! This is IMHO a bug in the Coda API – the API seems to deliver the folded text, not the file contents when calling [textView string].
I’ll send them a bug report.
UPDATE: Is fixed in the next version according to panic.
Your 3.5 beta plugin installed fine for me with Coda 2, thanks for updating it!
Two issues with HTML formatting: my Coda editor preference is 2 spaces per indent, but my code is getting formatted with 4 spaces. Also, it would be great if when formatting a template fragment the formatter could be told to not add html/head/body tags and just format my div.
This is definitely a must-have plugin for php/html work, it’s great!
Hi –
- The second issue should be resolved by selecting “Body only” as HTML Tidy configuration in the plugin preferences.
- About the number of spaces: I’ll have look, is on the todo list..
I installed the new beta plugin with Coda 2. It installs, but all the menu options are greyed out.
I’m also getting frequent crashes.
I have removed/reinstalled several times.
Is there anything I can do to help diagnose? Thank you! I appreciate your work.
The menu options are greyed out if no file is open or the current file is empty.
Please have a look that the plugin isn’t installed twice: Go to (your user folder)/Library/Application Support/Coda 2/Plug-Ins and check if there is more than one file starting with “PhpPlugin..”.(Kind of) Resolved via email: Seems to be a local problem with one user on one mac.
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Working great for me so far on Coda 2. Used this on Coda 1 and loved it for validating/tidying PHP and JS.
I had Coda 2 running, never closed it, unzipped the file, double-clicked the PhpPlugin.codaplugin file, and viola.
Many thanks for your good work on this.
Hallo Mario
I am also getting the NSInvalidArgumentException error. I have removed the plugin from the old Coda folder restarted etc. but still the same error when I try to validate PHP.
Schö,
Sebastian
Coda 1 or Coda 2?
Hi Mario, sorry about that. I am now using Coda 2.
Continued via email.
i accidently installed with coda 2 and its crashing and i cant figure out a way to get it back working
Open (your user folder)/Library/Application Support/Coda 2/Plug-Ins/ and delete the PHP plugin file there
Don not attempt to install this in Coda 2 as it will crash Coda 2. If I find a solution to getting Coda 2 working again I will update here.
Yes, I updated the description above. Coda 2 compatible version will be available the next days.
Is it compatible with coda 2? My Installation crashed hard when trying to install it on coda 2.
Thanks
Not yet. Compatible version will be available the next days.
Thanks alot!
Great plugin, really missed these features in Coda! :)
Since Code 2.0 has been released today – can you update your plugin for it? Should be quite easy they say: http://www.panic.com/coda/plugins.php
Thanks in advance! :)
Thanks. Coda 2 version comes the next days.
Is there a coda2 version in progress?
Yes of course. Will be there in a few days.
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It’s possible change space indent to tab indent?
Hi -
this should not be necessary, because the plug-in automatically detects what you selected for the current file.
In the menu “Text” there’s an entry “Use Tabs” which is selected if tabs are enabled – and deselected for spaces.
If that doesn’t do it – with which function do you have problems?
mario
Well, don’t work. When I press: cmd + alt + shift + H to auto indent the plugin convert all tab indent to 4 space.
Another question: Every empty element disappear, why?
The handling of empty elements depends on how HTML tidy works, P-tags are i.e. not removed but empty inline elements – like SPAN for example.
About the tab/spaces-error: It seems there’s a bug in just this function. I’ll have a look. You can use “Text > Entab” in the Coda menu as a workaround until I’ve got a new version ready.
Weird, when I try, even the empty divs are removed.
LOL, I don’t know this function exists (entab and detab).
One more thing (another one) why script tags don’t break line:
Before:
After:
Argh… the comment with the html example disappear :\
JSBIN with example: http://jsbin.com/elanic/edit#html,live
I have to correct me.. HTML tidy has no option to use tabs.
Quote from the documentation “Tidy never outputs tabs.”. See here: http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html#tab-size
So using “Entab” is currently the only way to make sure the output still uses tabs.
Ok :(
Unfortunately I don’t understand how I can make the custom config.
The default option is near to perfect for everything, but missing some fine tweaks like break 2 labels. I know, labels are inline elements but for visualize the code breaking some lines helps
You just select “Custom..” and the textfield below becomes editable. There you can enter the configuration options, one per each line. You should also see a default setting in the textfield. The documentation link there opens the tidy configuration documentation webpage.
Hi i love the idea of having my code validated and reformatted. Unfortunately i can not getting this to work. I’m on Lion 1.7.3 and are using latest php plug-in and coda. I’m receiving this message each time i call the plug-in: “Tidy returned nothing. Make sure the file has no errors, try using UTF-8 encoding.” I do get this also for PHP JS. On-line validation does work but non of the Tidys. Can some one help me on this. I did several new installs with no luck. thanks for any suggestions.
Hi -
please go to Plug-ins/PHP & Web Toolkit/Preferences and select the “Advanced” tab. The check if the PHP executable is correct: Usually it’s “/usr/bin/php”. Below it there should be a line showing the found PHP version. Which version is found?
If that seems correct.. please enable “Debug mode” (on the same screen), open “Console”, reproduce the error in Coda and copy the lines starting with “[Coda PHP Toolkit]“.
Hi Mario
thanks for that fast response. I have attached the requested file. Btw. i was able to tidy php but no luck for any JS, CSS or HTML. I have only one other Plug-in installed (Typoscript) but the problem persist whether the other plug-in is installed or not. thanks again. Here is the error message: http://www.ilink.ch/coda_php_toolkit_error.txt
That’s strange..
Could you open the terminal and try to execute the following line (all in one line):
“/Users/administrator/Library/Application Support/Coda/Plug-ins/PhpPlugin.codaplugin/Contents/Resources/tidy” -help
Now you *should* see help and a list of options for HTML tidy – if not just copy the output.
Hi – when i do this command i only get “Operation not permitted” as output. it doesn’t change when i su the command.
Sorry Mario i missed something in the path to “Application Support”. Please see the output at the updated file here: http://www.ilink.ch/coda_php_toolkit_error.txt
I sent you an email, that’s more easy..
Hey Mario – I had this same problem. Did you resolve the issue, if so, how? This plugin used to work for me when I had previously installed coda – but recently had to wipe my machine.
I’ve restarted coda, checked the plug-ins folder (this is the only plug-in i’ve installed so far), and have gone through the steps above.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
An updated version seems to have solved the problem, in case of problems, check out the modified version (see above, in downloads).
I love this plugin and use it every day without fail! A real life-saver!
Although being a predominant PHP developer, as I am starting to work with JavaScript (and more specifically jQuery) I have found one niggily thing.
I would love it if when going to JS > Minify Javascript; if I have a section already highlighted, Minify just this section (and the same with Tidy Javascript). I normally use a script.js file to concatinate my scripts. And I like to Tidy the section before I start work on it, and then Minify just this section once I am done (sometimes I will leave another section “Tidied” as I am already working on it).
Also if may be an idea to allow (in Preferences) a setting to leave Comments when Minifying (as sometimes Licences need to remain….
And then I actually looked, and found the option inside the Preferences menu!
Cool, love it when problems solve itself ;=)
I love this for PHP but haven’t been able to get it working for html in version 3.4. If I click ‘validate html’ I get
dyld: unknown required load command 0×80000022
if I click ‘tidy’ I get
‘Tidy returned nothing. Make sure the file has no errors, try using UTF-8 encoding.’
I’m using the html 5 meta tag
but this doesn’t change if I use the old html4 version
Okay… which version of OSX do you use – and what Mac do you have?
Have you ever considered to make this a plugin for Espresso? This would be so hyper cool.
Hi -
I think it’s about the 4th or 5th time I get asked this :)
But since I don’t use Espresso and the API is completely different I currently don’t have any plans (and no time..) to port it to Espresso.
I keep hunting for the perfect and all in one code editor and I’m on a mac, but it seems I’m always finding shortcomings in one or the other. Here’s the problem I’m having with the Tidy HTML on Coda.
I often have PHP and HTML in the same file and when using the Tidy HTML command it rearranges the HTML, like moving the doctype to the very top, basically breaking everything. I see that if you have an html file without the basic html page structure (….) the ‘tidy html’ adds it in which is nice, but it also adds it in incorrectly when having php + html.
If I want to run some php code before the html I can’t use the ‘tidy html’ because it breaks the code. Is there anyway around this? I have used stuff similar to tidy html such as “command + shift + f” with titanium studio and it works like a charm – keeping your code where it’s at, but making it ‘tidy.’ Also in net beans “contol + shift + f” – this works also fine.
It doesn’t even seem to fix the code correctly when only having html in an html file:
For example when I have this code (just some html elements, no html structure) in Coda:
1. How does Mary’s garden grow?
Roses and Violets
Sunshine and Rain
Silver Bells and Cockle Shells
Purple Balls and Copper Dolls
Then I use ‘tidy html” if gives me this: (even when only on an html file, with only html code)
9. What color were the buttons on Ms. Mary Mack’s dress? Black
White
Silver
Gold
Not sure if you can tell, but it brings the up one line, to the end of the p tag. Any idea why? Is something wrong with the plugin that I have? I can’t tell a version or anything but when I “view package contents’ it looks like the files were last modified on Jan 27 2012. Not sure if that helps or not.
I really want to switch to Coda but this is the main thing holding me back. Do you know of any other ‘tidy’ methods or code formatting for Coda? Or can you help me with a fix?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Hi -
HTML tidy in some cases breaks PHP code, that’s a problem with HTML tidy itself (which I can’t fix of course). You can try other settings in the plugin, but the most easy way is to send me an example file via email (HTML isn’t allowed in the comments here) together with an explanation of what went wrong.
My email address is mario at (the domain of this blog).
About the plugin version: Just use “Check for updates” in the plugin menu.
thx,
mario
Wonderful plug-in! Thank you very much.
Can you do us all a great favor and work on a diff tool plug-in for CODA? :)
Hi! I love this plugin.
One problem: I use Isolator, and I notice if I this plugin has a pop-up on the screen, and then I switch to another window, the pop up stays there. I don’t think this is a bug with Isolator, as all Isolator does is hide the application. I can replicate it happening without Isolator by using your plugin, then switching to another app and clicking alt-cmd-h.
Also, I’m a beta tester for Coda 2, and I notice in Coda 2 that all the command shortcuts are gone. Any plans on bringing those back? Is this a bug?
Thanks again for a great plugin!
Hi -
I assume you mean the semi-transparent black popup? Are you using Growl notifications – in this case the popup should disappear after a few seconds. I’ll have a look for the next version why the other popup doesn’t correctly fade out.
Regarding the next Coda version:
It might be the plugin API has changed or a bug in the current alpha version – but there’s no new API documentation released from Panic, so we’ll have to wait. As soon as it’s released I’ll have a look of course (and hope for new API features). And: I strongly assume it won’t be a problem to integrate the keyboard shortcuts in the final release.
Thanks for the quick response! I am using growl, but this happens whether growl is running or not. Perhaps a screenshot would help?
https://img.skitch.com/20120217-qfkpd2aih6xma82tkxxnhb3m21.jpg
Here’s me browsing your website after validating PHP in Coda. This little popup doesn’t go away unless I switch back to Coda, re-validate using your plugin, and wait for it to fade out. Then I can safely switch to another application without the popup staying there permanently.
Okay I see – might be a problem with growl, I’ll have a look as soon as I start with the next update (which hopefully is the release for 2.0).
Hi there,
your plugin generates a generic message (PHP & Web Toolkit) each time I launch Coda. In parenthesis it says it will show this message only once after updating, but as I said, it shows up every single time I launch Coda.
I reinstalled Coda and downloaded the plugin again but it didn’t help.
Your help would be much appreciated.
-Franco
Hi -
no need to reinstall Coda, this usually happens if the plugin is accidentally installed twice, see #3 here:
http://www.chipwreck.de/blog/software/coda-php/help/#quick
mario
Thanks Mario. I had checked if the plugin was installed twice, but that was not the case. I also checked the console, but I couldn’t find any useful information.
Could it be some kind of permission problem by which the plugin can’t write to a file?
-Franco
That’s strange because it’s using the standard OS X methods and writes to the Coda prefs file (~/Library/Preferences/com.panic.coda.plist). There’s a key “dechipwreckPrefLastVersionRun” which stores the last version number.
Which version do you use?
The latest and greatest. There was indeed a problem with accessing the preference file. Not sure what kind of problem, but it is fixed now.
Thanks for your help,
Franco
Okay, good to know! Thx.
Hi, i’m Getting a NSInvalidArgumentException,
heres a screenshot: http://cl.ly/2r2Y2x422e2D3q0f1v3X
Using latest version of Coda, and latest version of plugin,
after following all FAQ and help section, but still getting the same error,
Thanks for your help!
Hi -
which function causes this error?
If this happens when using “php validation” then it might be the plugin can’t find the PHP binary. The path to the PHP binary can be found here:
There you can enter the path to the PHP binary, which usually is /usr/bin/php.
Maybe this helps – otherwise I need to know which function causes the exception.
thx,
mario
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Ever thought about developing this into a sugar for espresso? I just made the switch from coda to espresso. This is an invaluable asset. I would definitely pay if I had to
Hi -
well I had a look at the Espresso API and It’s completely different to the Coda API. And since I don’t use Espresso (tried it several times and was not very impresed) I don’t see a chance of me developing this for Espresso..
(But nice to hear that it’s so useful to you :)
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Tidy HTML is giving me extra blank lines where it’s not needed.
For example I want the code to format like this:
something
something
But using the Tidy HTML feature would result in this:
something
something
Any idea how to get rid of the blank line? I tried using Custom settings in the Configuration, but no luck. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
hmm…how do i embed html code in here?
Typical wordpress problem ..:)
Just send me a mail with the html-code that makes problems: mario at chipwreck dot de.
Have you ever considered porting this over to the Espresso editor?
Not really.. I already had someone else asking this and had a look at Espresso plugin development.
First I don’t use Espresso (had a look two or three times and found it not to be a great tool). But second and more importantly: The plugin interface quite differs from Coda so I’d have to rewrite nearly everything, test it and so on (not mentioning having to do this every time I add a feature). Because of that I’m afraid this isn’t going to happen soon..
Fair enough. I have been using TextWrangler for a while and every once in a while think about switching to Code or Espresso or some other hot new editor. Mostly for the intellisense features as I’m starting to use jQuery more and more.
Your tools are great and something that’s definitely missing from other editors. You might just sway me over to Coda.
Good to hear :)
And I’ve heard Coda 2.0 is on the way, so maybe wait a bit before purchasing..
Hi,
After installing the PHP and Web Toolkit, Coda can’t find anything anymore in the files when doing cmd+f. I’ve found a topic on Google that shows someone with the same problem: http://groups.google.com/group/coda-users/browse_thread/thread/9324429900654bc7
Maybe something to look into, or do you know a way to solve this? The toolkit has some great functionality but having to give up the find functionality is a bit too much…
I’ll have a look tomorrow. thanks for reporting, I wasn’t aware of this problem.
Hi,
I uninstalled the PHP and Web Toolkit, and the find function worked again, so it does seem related. However after reinstalling the PHP and Web Toolkit the find function still worked. I’m glad I can now perfectly use both.. :)
Maybe something odd happened during installation of the plugin the first time?
Okay – good to hear.
The only possible explanation would be that the plugin was accidentally installed twice or Coda was not restarted (see here: http://www.chipwreck.de/blog/software/coda-php/help/#quick ).
Because it’s impossible for a plugin to inject into Coda functions like searching.
thx for testing,
mario
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