Q:

Is there any php plugin that eliminates the need in php to prefix variables with the $ sign

After programming eight years in php i'm getting quite sick of every time having to put for no reason SHIFT + 4 whenever i put a variable somewhere. I've looked on the internet but the only thing i found was a feature request: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54325 Is there any plugin that can be installed or some other way that allows you to put variables like any other programming language. I don't know how to ask this more constructively and i couldn't find any existing question for this. I'm not asking why there's a dollar sign. Of course I know it's  inherited from PERL

A:

No, you can't. That's a basic construct of the language that you can't get around.

