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

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…)

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

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

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…)

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

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…)

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,