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PHP 7 is gaining traction, and we've been working hard to try and make PhpStorm 2016.2 the best tool around for working with PHP 7. (more…)…

Today we announced the PyCharm 2016.2 EAP 5 build 162.1121. Please download and try it today! Just as always, this EAP build can be used for 30 days after its release date and it doesn’t require any license. Comparing to the previous EAP build, this one mostly includes a consolidation of fi…

Writing docblocks is slow and tedious, so any help that your IDE can give you is always useful. PhpStorm 2016.2 has improved the way that the `@throws` annotation is detected and generated to save you having to create these annotations yourself. (more…)…

Often in web development, we want to start a new project from a skeleton application that has all the scaffolding we need to get quickly started with coding. PhpStorm bundles with some of these templates, but in 2016.2 we've added the ability to create your own project templates. (more…)…

We've made some improvements in the way that unused `use` statements are detected in PhpStorm 2016.2. (more…)…

It started with a Tweet: Who do i know that uses PHPstorm with VVV and XDebug? I need some guidance on getting things setup. — Andrew Woods (@awoods) June 21, 2016   Recently we've made a lot of changes to debugging in PhpStorm to try and make the process as simple as possible. So I dec…

You may have noticed recent versions of the Composer dependency manager has come with a warning if you have Xdebug enabled: Jordi added this warning because Xdebug does wondrous things when you are developing, but it slows down execution of PHP scripts massively. Turning Xdebug on and off dep…

As summer rolls in, and here in the UK we get slightly warmer rain, Gary Hockin once again rounds up the latest news from the PHP community, in Annotated Monthly. (more…)…

In a recent ticket on YouTrack (our issue tracker), our community member Jared Morgan documented how you can use the "External Tools" feature of PhpStorm to run everyday tools from your toolchain from a custom key binding, without ever leaving your IDE. (more…)…

At a round-table discussion with Ben Marks (of Magento fame), the developers from Class Llama mentioned that they had a gripe with the "Go to declaration" functionality in PhpStorm. (more…)…

Back at JavaOne 2015, during a lunch break we started chatting with Hans Dockter, CEO of Gradle. A couple of days after the conference, a few of us were at the Gradle offices talking about what would be the beginning of the collaboration between JetBrains and Gradle; to bring first-class tooling and…

We're all told that great developers refactor often (I looked for a quote on who said that, but couldn't find anyone, so now it's mine). Refactoring can be a tedious job, but PhpStorm's intentions can help you break away from the tedium and get the task done quicker. (more…)…