A small thing perhaps, but i think it would be handy to have a button to wrap selected text with the php open and close tags.

If I grab a snippet of code from somewhere, it's be great to paste it, highlight and then hit a button to wrap it with <?php and ?> tags.

Likewise for echo. Similar to the previous implementation, you type what you want to show, hit the button and it puts an echo in front of it, and if we're not in php tags already, add those too.

Or maybe this can already be done?

Again, not a major thing, but I think it'd be a time saver.


Cheers

This fits in nicely with the larger-scale feature that's been requested before of an improved template system. Such a system would support multiple variables within the template that you can quickly switch amongst to easily fill them in, the ability to insert any selection into the template, smart indentation handling, the ability to assign keyboard shortcuts or insert via the mouse, and much more. Basically, something approaching the systems available in TextMate and BBEdit.

You can do it right now
Just create a lang-neutral code template of <?php|?> and enter it whenever you need to surround selected code with php tags.

LOL... I didn't know I could do that in PhpED (:

Hey, I never saw the language-neutral option - that's great to know about! That makes something like this request (and more) feasible.

Quick question, though: is there a way to bind the template to a dedicated shortcut, so that I don't have to press ctrl-J and maneuver through what could be a long list?

no, shortcuts aren't supported at the moment. We have this request in the plans.