Hello,

In previous versions, when I select an expression and mouse hover it, it gets evaluated and the outcome is displayed in the tooltip
but with v13 the expression does not get evaluted (I tried build 13039 and 13041), I also checked the change logs but got no clue.

Is there a setting I have to activate ? Or was this feature removed ?


Thank you for replying, This feature really helps a lot !

It's still working in the v14 beta (don't have 13 installed at the moment).

Check Settings > Code Insight Settings for Expression evaluation being ticked.

Thank you for your reply

I checked that option and it's indeed ticked
I sent a bug report and hopefully this gets fixed soon

I don't see any problems too.
May sure that debugger is stopped at the sources.
Expression evaluation does not work while php runs.

Yes, I stopped the debugger
screenshot:



When I hover my cursor over $a = 2; it is supposed to get evaluated, but that doesn't happen

I'm running PhpEd on Win7 64bits

Maybe PhpED deliberately does not evaluate assignment operators because they could potentially interfere with debugging?

That would sound like a reasonable thing to do.

I hope it wasn't removed because I use it for live editing my code with no need to restart the debugging process or having to evaluate every change in the immediate window or the watch.
It makes work go a lot faster.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone reported that 'feature' as a bug. I fully understand you found it useful, but a lot of people might consider it incorrect. It never caused me a problem though and I evaluate expressions a lot. Assuming that evaluation of assignments really was removed, maybe it could be made another tick option. You could request that?

Yes I will request that option in the same ticket and see what comes out.

Thank you guys

If selected text is a modifying php statement, it won't be evaluated in the tooltip, otherwise you will modify a lot by mistake.
Without selection, $a will be evaluated fine.