WebScripter helps you navigate and understand code by compiling your projects files.

If your project contains PHP, PERL or Ruby files, press the compile button in the toolbar. You should compile your projects from time to time when you add new functions, methods, classes, constants (known as symbols) to your files. Don't worry, from here on only files that were modified will be affected during compiling and the process shouldn't take longer than a second or two.

After the project is compiled a few things happen:

  • You can now navigate symbols in symbol mode by pressing the icon in the upper left-hand corner of the window.
  • Contextual-clicking (right-click or control-click) on functions, classes and methods will let you jump to their definition.
  • The symbol pane in the lower left-hand corner of the window will contain symbols from the current file.