Over the years I have tried using a plethora of solutions for PHP code intelligence within emacs. I tried everything ranging from language server implementations to ctags based solutiions, to custom emacs integrations for software like phpactor. While some solutions worked fine in some scenarios, all of them had problems for my use cases. I encountered performance issues (language servers implemented in PHP would have massive memory consumption), lack of sophistication (ctags based solutions don't understand object oriented code well enough) or simply a lack of features. After a while I got invested enough to start implementing a solution myself with the main goals of being able to work with large projects, being sophisticated enough to understand object oriented code and being simple to setup from within emacs.

While the software is already useful to me in its current state, it needs more polish and an overhaul of some features before it's ready for others to try out comfortably. That is why I am working towards a ready for fieldtesting milestone . I hope to get the project ready for others to try out before the end of summer this year (2022).