How to add a custom file extension that has a dot (blade.php) in NetBeans?

Question

I need to assign a custom extension to be recognized as a twig file in netbeans (\'blade.php\' as \'twig\' file and give me syntax highlighting and code completion appropria

Answer 1

Workaround I figured out and seems to work (at least Netbeans 8.x+)

• Go to Tools > Options > Miscellaneous > Files
• Click New
• Enter blade as the new extension (you can use anything here, but this seems the most natural)
• Click OK
• In Associate File Type (MIME) select TWIG (text/x-twig)
• Click OK of the whole Options window
• Close Netbeans
• Open the Netbeans configuration folder - on Windows it's %AppData%\Netbeans\\
• Go to subfolder config\Services\MIMEResolver
• Open user-defined-mime-resolver.xml
• Find the entry (or whatever you entred above)
• Change the blade to blade.php
• Save and close the file

Voilà, higlighting should now work in Netbeans IDE :)