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Explore trends in the PHP ecosystem based on the State of Developer Ecosystem Report 2024 by JetBrains.

Welcome to the January edition of PHP Annotated! This recap is carefully handcrafted and brings you the most interesting developments in the PHP community over the past couple of months, so you don’t have to sift through the noise, we’ve done it for you. Highlights PHP 8.4 PHP 8.4 was offi…

.env files are widely used to configure applications by storing configuration settings, environment variables, and sensitive information. This eliminates the need to hardcode these values into the application code. Previously, developers using PhpStorm had to manually install the .env Files Suppo…

Support for PHP 8.4, xdebug_notify(), Pest 3.0, and Pest parallel and mutation testing, new features in JetBrains AI Assistant, and more!

Welcome to the October edition of PHP Annotated! This recap is carefully handcrafted and brings you the most interesting developments in the PHP community over the past couple of months, so you don’t have to sift through the noise—we’ve done it for you. (more…)…

Any significant update to the UI and UX of a professional tool is likely to pose challenges for its users. We recognize that the new UI of JetBrains IDEs represents a major change and understand how unsettling it can be when the software you rely on for productivity is significantly reworked. Howeve…

We’re opening the EAP for the PhpStorm 2024.3 that will have native support of PHP 8.4.

Welcome to the September edition of PHP Annotated! After a brief summer break, we’re back with all things PHP. This recap is carefully handcrafted and brings you the most interesting developments in the PHP community over the past couple of months, so you don’t have to sift through the noise—we’ve d…

Discover the latest trends in Laravel for 2024. Explore the most popular code editors, PHP versions, debugging approaches, and the expanding Laravel ecosystem.

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Log files support, auto-completion in the new terminal for Laravel, Symfony, WordPress, and Composer, editing from a floating toolbar, and more!

The 2024.1 versions of JetBrains IDEs introduced the new terminal as an opt-in feature, which can be enabled via Settings/Preferences | Tools | Terminal | Enable New Terminal. While we are actively gathering feedback and working on improvements, the new terminal remains in its Beta version. In the p…