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The Lightning-Smart IDE for PHP Programming

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In this build, we’re adding support for prefixed table names in SQL queries. 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 release. Check out the What’s Coming

PhpStorm 2021.1 EAP build #5 is now available. To catch up on all the new features, check out our previous EAP blog posts. If you would prefer to watch a video overview of the updates, check What’s coming in PhpStorm 2021.1 video on our JetBrainsTV channel! The Toolbox App is the easiest way to get the latest EAP builds and keep both your stable and EAP versions up to date. Or you can manual

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

The fourth build of the PhpStorm 2021.1 Early Access Program includes a set of new inspections and quick-fixes for PHP, as well as several enhancements in various subsystems. Just like the other EAP builds, this build is free to use but it will expire 30 days after the build date. Download PhpStorm 2021.1 EAP (more…)

The third build of our Early Access Program for PhpStorm 2021.1 is now available! In this blog post, you can learn about PHP’s the new synthetic scope renaming feature for PHP. Download PhpStorm 2021.1 EAP (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…)

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

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…)

The PhpStorm 2020.3 Beta release is the last one in the EAP cycle, and so our What's coming in 2020.3 video series is drawing to an end as well. In this final episode of the 2020.3 season, we take a look at a refined Search Everywhere, enabling plugins per project, and other IDE enhancements that make the development comfortable. Be sure to subscribe to the JetBrainsTV YouTube channel and t

PHP Annotated Monthly

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…)

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

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…)