PhpStorm 2021.3: PHP 8.1, Generics, Remote Development, Refactorings, and More

During PHP’s 26-year history, the language has been actively developed by a huge number of people, such as Rasmus Lerdorf, Zeev Suraski, Andi Gutmans, Nikita Popov, and many, many others. In 2021, PHP is in for another round of evolution. Nikita Popov switches focus from PHP Nikita started working on PHP in 2011 when he was still in high school. He made his first contribution in PHP 5.5. During hi

Qodana specializes in build quality management, delivering the static analysis smarts of IntelliJ Platform to project-level checks. In May, we extended the platform with a second linter,  Clone Finder, which detects code duplicates. Today, we are happy to announce the EAP for License Audit to detect incompatible third-party licenses on which your code relies, making the compliance verificatio

In December 2020, we announced the EAP for Qodana, which is rapidly evolving into a comprehensive platform that allows companies to perform multi-level evaluations of the quality of code they own, contract, or purchase. Qodana helps you detect bugs without relying on an IDE, either on a local machine or a build server, and it is designed to be seamlessly integrated into CI/CD pipelines. In additi

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

PHP 8.1 is out, and it’s packed with lots of awesome new features. But don’t just take our word for it – watch the video, where Brent Roose, the PHP community members, and the authors of these features, Nikita Popov, Larry Garfield, Dmitry Stogov, Matthieu Napoli, and Aaron Piotrowski, explain them. This video is all about PHP 8.1. As for PhpStorm, the full support for PHP 8.1 is coming in 2021

We’ve collaborated with PHP engineer and technical trainer Matthew Setter to bring you a 7-part video series showing how to systematically improve the quality of your code using PhpStorm’s refactoring functionality. Check out the first two episodes! What you are going to learn In this series Matthew’s going to teach you how to perform the following refactorings: Change Signature: You’ll le

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

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

Greetings everyone! Here are some highlights from the world of PHP over the last month. PHP 8.1 RC3 is out, and the first package that uses enumerations is already available! A community fork of Magento has been announced. In addition to PSRs, there will be a new type of recommendation called PERs. Symfony 6 will be fully typed — how to update? New optimized data structures and a standa

Greetings everyone! PHP 8.1 has reached the first release candidate and the list of changes has been finalized. We'll see at least 5 more release candidates before the final release, which is planned for the end of November. Meanwhile, discussions are already taking place in PHP internals regarding three more proposals for PHP 8.2: operator overloading, the $this type hint, and deprecating dynami

Greetings everyone! PHP 8.1 has reached the second beta and the list of changes has been finalized. The final piece left to decide on is the nullability of intersection types, which is being voted on right now. Meanwhile, PHP internals are already discussing features for the next release. Read on to learn about the first two RFCs for PHP 8.2, which is coming in 2022. As PHP 8.1 is going to have

Greetings everyone! PHP 8.0 is gaining momentum and adoption is increasing, as evidenced by Composer's statistics. Meanwhile, PHP internals have accepted a bunch of changes for PHP 8.1, including a new never type and namespaces in bundled PHP extensions, and some features that will be deprecated. The PHP 8.1 release managers have been selected, and there are several interesting proposals under

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,