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 JetBrains Marketplace, a platform for plugin vendors to deliver tools like Pest to a wider audience and quickly roll out updates for everyone. Just search for "Pest" and install it from there. Look

PhpStorm 2020.3 will come with several PHP 8 attributes available out-of-the-box: Download PhpStorm 2020.3 EAP (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…)

A new PhpStorm EAP cycle has begun and we have already announced many new features, including full support for PHP 8, PHPStan and Psalm working out of the box, Search Everywhere improvements, splitting the editor with drag and drop, and many others. In addition to our standard blog post, we are doing a video overview of what you’ll find in the upcoming PhpStorm 2020.3. In the first episode, we’ll take a look at new features of PHP 8 and how to work with them in PhpStorm. Subscribe to the JetbrainsTV YouTube channel and turn on notifications so you don’t miss the upcoming episodes! The EAP cyc

PhpStorm 2020.2.3, a bug-fix update for v2020.2, is now available! You can update to it using the Toolbox App or right from inside the IDE. You can also download PhpStorm 2020.2.3 from our website. (more…)

The third build of our Early Access Program for PhpStorm 2020.3 is now available! In this blog post we’ll cover a number of IDE updates: Search Everywhere improvements. Split the editor with drag and drop. One more way to split the editor. Switch to light or dark theme automatically. System shortcut keymap for macOS. Plugins enabled per project. Download PhpStorm 2020.3 EAP (more…)

This EAP build brings support for PHPStan and Psalm static analyzers to PhpStorm. Last week, we launched the Early Access Program for PhpStorm 2020.3. For the next two months, we are going to be releasing updates every week, and today we’ve got the second build of the 2020.3 EAP for you. Important! PhpStorm EAP builds are not fully tested and may be unstable. You can install an EAP build side by side with a stable PhpStorm version to try out the latest features. EAP builds are free to use but expire 30 days after the build date. Download PhpStorm 2020.3 EAP (more

The release candidate build for PhpStorm 2020.2.3 is available. (more…)

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 questions on Reddit at 12 pm UTC on the 8th of October and will be doing this until 5 pm UTC. Apart from this AMA session, you can always reach out to us on Twitter, via support tickets, and on our issue

The third major release of PhpStorm this year will bring support for PHP 8, Xdebug 3, a reworked Welcome screen, IDE themes synced with OS settings, editor splitting with drag-and-drop tabs, Guzzle integrated with HTTP client, and a whole lot more. In this first EAP blog post we go through all the changes related to PHP 8 support. PhpStorm 2020.3 will allow you to try new language features, check code for compatibility, and quickly upgrade to the newest PHP version. Download PhpStorm 2020.3 EAP ❗ PhpStorm EAP builds are free to use but expire within 30 days of the build date.

A fresh bugfix update for PhpStorm 2020.2 is now available. You can update to the new version from inside the IDE, with the Toolbox App, or using snaps if you are an Ubuntu user. It is also available for download from our website. (more…)

Greetings everyone, I hope you are all ready for September’s installment of PHP Annotated! In it, we have the additional PHP 8 beta 4 release, the PHP community’s momentum with the generics discussion in Internals, and the Community Synergy Initiative. There are some interesting releases like Laravel 8, Composer 2.0 RC 1, and PoC for PHP support for GraalVM. And as usual, we’ve got a load of useful articles, tools, videos, and podcasts for you too. (more…)