How to treat .tpl syntax highlighting like php's syntax highlighting in PHPStorm

ide, php, phpstorm

Solution

If you want to treat `.tpl` files in the same way as `.php` then you will have to re-assign `*.tpl` pattern to PHP type in `Settings/Preferences | Editor | File Types`

(screenshot is from current 2021.2 version)

The IDE will ask to confirm the removal of that pattern from the standard Smarty file type:

P.S. This is an IDE-wide setting and will affect all projects.

Sadly you cannot have the same pattern to be assigned to a different file type in different projects. Consider using double extension if it's possible: e.g. `*.html.tpl` -- this way you can use such additional pattern assigned to another file type.

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