I'm looking for the "Highlight code -> right-click -> Extract Method" type of functionality I see in Eclipse Java. Does this exist for PHP?
I'm using Zend Studio 7, which is also an Eclipse product, and I can see that option through the "refactor" submenu
Highlight code -> right-click -> Refactor -> Extract Method
Not sure if PHP Eclipse has the same thing.
No, most of the refactoring functionality does not work for PHP in Eclipse with PDT. I assume it's because PHP is so much more dynamically typed than Java.
Zend Studio, which is Eclipse with some other extensions has more PHP features, but it will cost you a few hundred bucks.
hum, having been one of the phpeclipse developers, the only thing I can say is that: it has never been implemented... refactoring in Java's JDT is a large piece of non-trivial code! doing the same in PHp is even less trivial