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Explore how you can benefit from Junie, the AI coding agent by JetBrains, for your PHP development.

The PHP ecosystem is driven by passionate developers building tools that power everything from content management systems right the way through to testing libraries and database layers. Behind each project is a dedicated team working to modernize code, improve performance, and move the ecosystem for…

Welcome to the May edition of PHP Annotated! It’s been a minute since the last edition. Turns out time flies when you’re deep in foundation work, and the occasional existential debugging session. But we are back. Here’s everything you might’ve missed in the PHP world, we dug through the noise so you…

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

PHP turns 30 this June, and we’re looking forward to celebrating this notable milestone together with you!

Earlier this month, we had the pleasure of hosting a community meetup in our Amsterdam office in collaboration with our partner DLF (the Dutch Laravel Foundation). The event brought together Laravel and PHP developers for an evening of technical talks, networking, and knowledge sharing. The Dutch…

Introducing the official Xdebug Helper extension by JetBrains, ensuring seamless PHP debugging in Chrome.

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. (more…)…

.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…)…