Improved Sublime Text 2 PHP getter and setter generation

As I’ve been using Sublime Text 2 for all coding for the last year, I’ve noticed a significant problem with my simple ‘getset‘ snippet that I created last year: it doesn’t handle underscores in property names correctly.

I’ve finally got around to fix it!

As with a lot of editors, Sublime Text supports snippets which are essentially text expansions of a short phrase into more text. This snippet creates a getXxx() and setXxx() method from a property name.

To create a snippet, go to Tools->New Snippet... and replace the code example provided with this:

<snippet>
    <content><![CDATA[/**
 * Getter for ${1:$SELECTION}
 *
 * @return mixed
 */
public function get${1/(?:^|_)(w)/U$1$2/g$1}()
{
    return $this->$1;
}

/**
 * Setter for $1
 *
 * @param mixed $${1/_(w)/U$1/g$1} Value to set

 * @return self
 */
public function set${1/(?:^|_)(w)/U$1$2/g$1}($${1/_(w)/U$1/g$1})
{
    $this->$1 = $${1/_(w)/U$1/g$1};
    return $this;
}

]]></content>
    <!-- Optional: Tab trigger to activate the snippet -->
    <tabTrigger>gs</tabTrigger>
    <!-- Optional: Scope the tab trigger will be active in -->
    <scope>source.php</scope>
    <!-- Optional: Description to show in the menu -->
    <description>Create getter and setter methods</description>
</snippet>

Save the file as getset.sublime-snippet and you’re done.

To use, simply type gs followed by tab and it will automatically expand and you can then type your underscore_separated property name and the correct method names will be created.

Alternatively, select some text and press shift+cmd+p and then type gs to automatically replace the selected text with the get and set methods completed for the text that was selected.

As an example, typing gs {tab} date_last_updated will produce:

    /**
     * Getter for date_last_updated
     *
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function getDateLastUpdated()
    {
        return $this->date_last_updated;
    }
    
    /**
     * Setter for date_last_updated
     *
     * @param mixed $dateLastUpdated Value to set
    
     * @return self
     */
    public function setDateLastUpdated($dateLastUpdated)
    {
        $this->date_last_updated = $dateLastUpdated;
        return $this;
    }

I’ve also updated the snippet in my sublime-akrabat package on github.