Tag Archives: PHP

Working with Windows Azure SQL Database in PhpStorm

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Maarten Balliauw

PhpStorm provides us the possibility to connect to Windows Azure SQL Database right from within the IDE. In this post, we’ll explore several options that are available for working with Windows Azure SQL Database (or database systems like SQL Server, … Continue reading →

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Recording of PhpStorm 6 Webinar – More Tools to Develop Smarter, Not Harder

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Maarten Balliauw

On Tuesday, March 26, we’ve held a free webinar where JetBrains Technical Evangelist for PHP and .NET Maarten Balliauw went through the most important features of the latest PhpStorm 6 release. The recording of this webinar can be found on … Continue reading →

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Change signature refactoring in PhpStorm

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Maarten Balliauw

A very powerful refactoring is the Change signature refactoring in PhpStorm. It enables us to modify a function signature in many ways: we can change the function name, change its visibility, add, remove and reorder parameters as well as rename … Continue reading →

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Folding for imports in PhpStorm 6.0

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Maarten Balliauw

In PhpStorm 6, we’ve introduced code folding for imports. Any list of imports will now be folded into a single line. This greatly reduced clutter in your editor when having a lot of imports!

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Optimize Imports for PHP

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Maarten Balliauw

Those of you who have already tried PhpStorm 6 might have noticed a lot of great additions to PHP imports support. In this post we would like to tell you about a long awaited feature: Optimize Imports for PHP.

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PHPUnit installation via Composer in PhpStorm

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Maarten Balliauw

Since version 3.7, PHPUnit allows us to install the test runner and optional dependencies using Composer. With PhpStorm 6, this workflow is now supported from the IDE. Using both the bundled Composer support and PhpStorm’s unit testing support, we can … Continue reading →

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Composer support in PhpStorm

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Maarten Balliauw

One of the great things that happened in PHP world was the introduction of Composer, a dependency manager for PHP which allows us to specify dependencies for our project and have Composer install and update them for us. With PhpStorm … Continue reading →

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Running CakePHP2 Unit Tests in PhpStorm

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Maarten Balliauw

CakePHP2 comes with unit testing support powered by PHPUnit. In addition to the features offered by PHPUnit, CakePHP offers some additional features to make testing easier. Unit tests in CakePHP rely on a custom test runner which can be run … Continue reading →

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Using GitHub without leaving PhpStorm

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Maarten Balliauw

In a previous post we saw how PhpStorm handles Version Control Systems (VCS). A very popular VCS is Git, driven by the collaboration that’s possible using GitHub. In this post, we’ll explore several integrations with GitHub that are available from … Continue reading →

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Continuous Integration for PHP using TeamCity

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Maarten Balliauw

If you have multiple team members, you should be doing Continuous Integration (CI). By building the desired output artifacts on a frequent basis and analyzing their quality using unit tests and code coverage, you will find that there are fewer … Continue reading →

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