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The second bug-fix update for PhpStorm 2021.1 is now available! You can update to it using the Toolbox App or right from inside the IDE. You can also download PhpStorm 2021.1.2 from the website. (more…)

The preview build for PhpStorm 2021.1.2 is available with a bunch of bugfixes and stability improvements. (more…)

Last week we've released PhpStorm 2021.1. Your feedback helped us discover a few bugs, and the first bugfix update is ready for you. You can update to it using the Toolbox App or right from inside the IDE. You can also download PhpStorm 2021.1.1 from the website. (more…)

PhpStorm 2021.1 is now available! This major release introduces a built-in preview for PHP and HTML files, 20+ new inspections to help prevent bugs, improvements in all subsystems, pair programming via Code With Me, and much more. Download PhpStorm 2021.1 Here are the main highlights of the release: PHP Preview PHP and HTML files right in the editor with a built-in b

PhpStorm 2021.1 Release Candidate is available! PhpStorm 2021.1 RC is the final build before the major update of PhpStorm. Just a quick heads up! Unlike previous EAP builds, this RC requires you to have a valid PhpStorm license. The most notable new features of the upcoming release are listed in the 2021.1 Beta announcement. We have posted more detailed video overviews on our JetbrainsTV YouTube c

The main focus for this upcoming release is stability, but it still includes some new features and improvements. In this video, we’ll look at support for prefixed table names in SQL in action, synthetic scope renaming, new inspections, and other updates. A new PhpStorm EAP cycle is going to be closed soon. But there is still time to try upcoming features and provide feedback. Download the latest

News

We, the JetBrains PhpStorm team, are excited to announce our very first Ask Me Anything session! We’ve never done anything like this before, but we feel the time has come to try something new. We’re going to hold our first AMA session on Reddit. Send us any questions you may have about PhpStorm, PHP, or any other things related to JetBrains products. ASK A QUESTION We’ll start answering your quest

The popular static analyzers PHPStan and Psalm will soon be supported in PhpStorm. Even better, the code behind this support will be open source. (more…)

PhpStorm 2020.1.2 is now available! This second minor update for PhpStorm 2020.1 introduces support for WSL 2 and also contains important bug fixes. (more…)

PhpStorm 2020.1.1, the first bug-fix update for v2020.1, is now available! You can update to it using the Toolbox App or right from inside the IDE. You can also download PhpStorm 2020.1.1 from the website. Here are notable changes since PhpStorm 2020.1: Fixed: Find Usages does not prompt when method overrides/implements base method (WI-51177 +18) Fixed: Can't validate PHP XDebug >= 2.9

Tutorials

Perhaps you’ve already heard of Pest. It is a new PHP testing framework with a focus on simplicity. The Pest PhpStorm plugin is a new addition to PhpStorm’s growing ecosystem. With this plugin, testing your code in your favorite IDE is even simpler and faster! The source code behind the plugin is open source and community-driven, just like Pest itself. You can find the plugin in the JetBrain

When developing a web service, you would usually test it by sending all kinds of HTTP requests to it and examining what’s returned. In PhpStorm, you can do this directly in the code editor. In this post, we’ll use the github.com/JetBrains/phpstorm-http-client-tutorial example project to demonstrate. You can clone it and navigate through its commit history to get to the corresponding phase of th

So, you’ve decided to try something new today and started a project from scratch. Your first step will be to set up a development environment: at the bare minimum, you’d want to run a web server and a PHP interpreter (preferably – with the debugging engine installed). With Docker, you can start developing, running, and debugging your code in a matter of minutes! (more…)

Exciting news for Linux users: you can now use snaps to install PhpStorm builds. Snaps will update your app automatically, and you’ll always have a fresh PhpStorm build right out of the oven. Snaps are really easy to install and use. On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or later, snaps come pre-installed. On other Linux distributions, you will need to install snaps first, as described here. We currently distrib

Videos

A new PhpStorm EAP cycle is now in full swing. The main focus for this upcoming release is stability, but it still includes some new features and improvements. In this video, you can see new inspections in action, as well as a number of UI updates. Subscribe to the JetbrainsTV YouTube channel and turn on notifications so you don’t miss the upcoming episodes! The EAP cycle is a perfect opportunity

Christoph Rumpel shows PhpStorm’s refactoring features. He goes through 6 refactorings to improve code readability and maintainability. PhpStorm tips with Christoph Rumpel is a video series where you can learn how to get more out of PhpStorm. (more…)

Christoph Rumpel demonstrates how to use the built-in terminal in PhpStorm. He goes through some of the basics and shows you how to incorporate the terminal effectively into your daily work. PhpStorm tips with Christoph Rumpel is a video series where you can learn how to get more out of PhpStorm. (more…)

PHP Annotated Monthly

Greetings everyone, In this edition of PHP Annotated, read about the latest proposals for PHP 8.1, releases of xdebug.cloud, RoadRunner 2.0, and the newly proposed PSR ClockInterface standard. And as usual, we’ve got a load of articles, tools, videos, and streams carefully selected for you. (more…)

Greetings everyone, In this edition of PHP Annotated, you can read about the latest release of PHP, updates of PSR standards, and the new RFC proposals. As usual, we’ve curated a collection of PHP-related articles, tools, videos, and streams to share with you. (more…)

Greetings everyone, In this edition of PHP Annotated, read about the top PHP news from the year so far. These include PHP 8.0.1 and other releases, fibers for async PHP, Enums, first native attributes, and other proposals for PHP 8.1. And as usual, we’ve got a load of articles, tools, videos, and streams, carefully selected for you. (more…)

Greetings everyone! In our October edition of PHP Annotated you can read about the upcoming PHP 8, Xdebug 3 beta, short functions, and multiline arrow functions proposals in Internals. And as usual, we’ve got a load of useful articles, tools, videos, and podcasts to tell you about, too. (more…)

Features

The Early Access Program for PhpStorm 2020.2 is in full swing and today we’ve got the third build of the 2020.2 EAP for you. In this blog post, you can read about improvements for Git installed in WSL2 and Search Everywhere. Download PhpStorm 2020.2 EAP (more…)

We’ve just rolled out a preview for the third minor update for PhpStorm 2019.3. Please give the PhpStorm 2019.3.3 Preview build 193.6494.5 a try and share your feedback with us. (more…)

Check out our fresh video with a few nice tips and tricks on how to update your codebase to PHP 7.4. It combines materials from the PhpStorm 2019.2 and PhpStorm 2019.3 releases, with a few cool bonuses to boot. Nikita drew our attention to the fact that setters are slower than assigning properties directly. We had to make a microbenchmark. You can't take Nikita's word for it, can you?! S

PhpStorm 2019.3.1 build 193.5662.63 is available now. It brings with it important bugfixes and a couple of small but heavily requested usability improvements. Customizable auto-insertion of short tags PhpStorm 2019.3 introduced the ability to automatically insert <?php as soon as you type <?, which can help you deprecate short tags: But because short tags are still a part of PHP,

Events

This fall the PhpStorm team is happy to join four awesome PHP conferences around the world! At our booth, you’ll meet some of the folks who actually work on PhpStorm. They will be glad to answer any questions you have in mind, share information about future releases, or help with any issues you’ve encountered. Swing by to say hi, grab cool swag, show off your skills, learn something new in o

Our PhpStorm team is eager to meet you at DrupalCon Vienna (September 26-29). DrupalCon brings together thousands of people from across the globe who use, develop, design, and support the Drupal platform. The PhpStorm team is backing the event, and our team lead and developers will be waiting for you at the booth ready to help answer any questions that you might have. We will also be sharing in

The recording of our April 11th webinar What’s New in PhpStorm 2017.1 with Gary Hockin, is available on JetBrains YouTube channel. PhpStorm 2017.1, released on March 23rd, 2017, is a new major update of PhpStorm in 2017. During the webinar, Gary Hockin demonstrates new features and major improvements brought in this release: Support of Codeception testing framework Support of PHPUnit

Join us Tuesday, April 11, 2017, at 16:00 – 17:00 CEST for the free webinar, “What’s New in PhpStorm 2017.1” with Gary Hockin. (more…)

Early Access Program

PhpStorm 2021.1 Beta is now available! Download PhpStorm 2021.1 Beta Below is a roundup of the most notable updates for the upcoming 2021.1 release. The links will take you to the EAP posts published over the last few months, which contain detailed descriptions of each feature. No license is required to use this build. (more…)

PhpStorm 2021.1 EAP build #8 is now available. In this post, you’ll learn about the new updates for GitHub pull requests support. Download PhpStorm 2021.1 EAP from the EAP page or via the JetBrains Toolbox App. Or, if you have the previous PhpStorm 2021.1 EAP build installed, you should get a notification in your IDE about a patch update soon. Download PhpStorm 2021.1 EAP (more…)

This build introduces support for previewing PHP files in the editor. Read on to learn more. The Early Access Program is coming to a close, and we are now focusing on stabilizing and polishing PhpStorm for the release. This is a good time to report any lingering issues that you’ve encountered to our tracker, as there is still time to fix them before the release. Check out the What’s Coming i