Textastic offers syntax highlighting for many languages including PHP, but it dosen't include compilers or interpreters due to restrictions of iOS.

If you try to preview the php file locally, only the html part will be interpreted by the web view. The PHP part will be ignored.

In order to preview PHP in Textastic, you can upload the file to a test server, open the preview screen, 

and enter the remote url of your test server.

Ah, ok....I understand all that. Is a shame as I was only going to be using this app offline as my iPad doesn't have 3G and I'm not running a web server yet so it's not going to be much use to me at the moment. Although I appreciate this is a good app and well done on the development but is there any chance I can get a refund as it's no use to me?

Hi guys, will be great if i could use hdmi fullHD output of IPad to coding in big screen or external monitor. This is possible?

When opening external folders for editing in Textastic they can contain a lot of different files. It would be great to be able to search within these folders for particular files. 

Ideally, this feature would extend to both the 'Local' and 'iCloud' locations as well. 

Hello i got wrong language for my iPad... I got German language, but for my iPhone everything is ok. How can i change the language to English on my iPad? Thank you!

It seems that HTML and CSS highlighting is out of date. Examples: main (html), css-grid, and flexbox. 

Textastic won’t open local files it doesn’t recognize i.e.. something.myext

Is there anyway to change that or would it require an update.

Perhaps a way to define custom file extentions.

Hi, this would be a so handy feature, would you add it in settings? ☺

See https://atom.io/packages/pigments

I feel like this is a big feature that’s missing, especially when going back and forth between an HTML and CSS file. It feels very slow reaching up from the keyboard to constantly tap between them.

Something like: 

Option + Up/Down = navigate between files within the current folder or recent files.

Hi, before iOS11 Beta, I used to open WorkingCopy repos with the "Open ..." Menu.

On iOS11 the Open  menu now opens the new Apple App "Files". In Files you can pick WorkingCopy again, but the PopUp with the WorkingCopy repos does not contain a Pick button, so I can not open the repo in Textastic. Same procedure works in GoCoEdit.

It woukd be great to have per file search features, i have ioften to search different things in different files but related, for example occurrences for tag in log files and then timestamp of the found tag in another data file, but when switching between files the search feature is shared so i have to insert again the search any time, even worst when switching the search results list is always scrolled back to top it would be great if it retain the scrolled position and show the line numbers of the found string.