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PhpStorm provides native support for Twig templates, and with version 2017.3 it just got better. The Twig formatting mechanism now handles complex structures properly. It provides correct indentation for your code blocks and preserves it when copying and pasting code fragments between files. …

PhpStorm 2017.3 brings you several minor enhancements, allowing for more effective work with unit tests. The new Undefined PHPUnit data provider inspection detects a method that you’ve specified via the @dataProvider annotation but have not declared in unit tests yet. You can quickly create the m…

PhpStorm 2017.3 makes it easier to create tests with all supported test frameworks. Previously available for PHPUnit tests only, test file templates will now assist you in creating Codeception Unit, Codeception Functional, and PHPSpec Specification tests. (more…)…

PhpStorm 2017.3 introduces several useful inspections and the corresponding quick-fixes for handling exceptions in your code. Unhandled exception Situations where executing your code will lead to a Fatal Error should be detected in advance and avoided. The new Unhandled exception inspection will h…

PHP 7.1 introduced support for nullable types. When declaring a parameter or a return value, you can prepend its type with “?” to explicitly state that it is nullable. This way, you permit the NULL value to be passed or returned, besides the actual specified type. PhpStorm has been supporting nul…

PhpStorm 2017.3 has a number of subtle, yet effective, enhancements to help you with your file and code generation. PHP File templates PhpStorm 2017.3 unifies the way you work with your PHP file templates. The New PHP Class dialog now picks your custom file templates too - in addition to the built…

Composer is an indispensable tool; it has been integrated with PhpStorm since version 6. Prior to version 2017.3, however, the messages from the Composer actions were shown in the Event Log together with all the other messages. When there were a lot of messages, you would have had to scan through…

It is no secret that PhpStorm’s CPU usage can be quite high at times. This is primarily caused by various code insight features including auto-completion, syntax errors checking, intention actions and on-the-fly inspections. These processes are always running in the background and can be CPU-intensi…

When you work with remote servers, a common and recommended security measure is to use SSH key pairs for authentication. Our friends at PyCharm have prepared a great blog post on the topic. It explains how to generate an SSH key pair, store the passphrase for the private key in the credential hel…

Among other features introduced in 2017.3 EAP we mentioned the editor-based REST client, which offers a new approach to working with web APIs. Earlier, you could run your requests with the REST client built right into PhpStorm, but it required crafting each request by hand with lots of button cli…

PhpStorm updates are usually patch-based: they are applied to the existing installation and only require you to restart the IDE. Due to the current limitations of the update system, these patches can only be applied sequentially, on top of one another. For example, if you are using PhpStorm 2017.1.1…