Symfony language server
The official Symfony language server (symfony/language-tools) for the files around your PHP: Twig, YAML, XML, JSON and dotenv — and PHP itself when neither PHP server (phpantom nor phpactor) is enabled. Bundled with Porta and off by default — turn it on under Settings → Plugins → symfony-lsp.
Installing the server
The server ships only as a binary on GitHub Releases, so Porta installs it for you: press Install beside symfony-lsp under Tools on this plugin's settings page, or run Plugins: Install Missing Tools from the palette. It downloads the release for your machine, verifies its checksum, checks that it runs, and puts it in ~/.porta/bin, where every project shares it. A toast follows each step — resolving, downloading with a percentage, verifying, extracting, checking the binary.
Once a copy is there, the same button reads Update, and it compares before it downloads: it resolves the latest release, asks the installed binary its version, and says "already up to date" rather than fetching ~9 MB again. The Welcome card is not done until the server is actually there — pressing it enables the plugin and installs it.
Porta checks for a newer release in the background with every other tool — once a day by default; Check tools for updates under Settings → General makes it weekly or turns it off.
Installing needs curl and tar on your PATH, and honours GITHUB_TOKEN / GH_TOKEN if GitHub rate-limits the release lookup.
Runtime indexing
Without it the server reads your files statically. With Runtime indexing on it also inspects the application itself, which means executing your project's PHP — so the setting is the workspace-trust decision, and it is off until you make it. PHP command is what the application is run with (symfony php, for instance), and Symfony environment which environment it boots in.
Settings
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| symfony-lsp binary | empty | The server to run; empty tries your PATH, then ~/.porta/bin |
| Languages | php, twig, yaml, xml, json, dotenv | Comma-separated languages to serve; * for every language. PHP is served only when no PHP server claims it |
| Runtime indexing | off | Let the server execute your application's PHP to index it |
| PHP command | php | How the application is run when inspected |
| Symfony environment | dev | The environment the application boots in |