Also using VSC for quite some years now. With the php-debug extention you can even get a simple PHP debugger which sometimes can really help debugging while at the same time keeping the editor slimmer than a full IDE.
Other “must have’s” that I discovered over the years:
auto close tag
auto rename tag
document this
paste and indent (sublime can do that natively)
eslint
open in github
open in browser
project manager (like sublimes project quick switch feature)
setting sync
php debug
By the wa…
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that’s what what was posted on the forums the other day. many functions i have been using were already auto-completeable and had descriptions. not sure if they are complete or not though