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JetBrains PHPverse – a community-inspired professional event for PHP developers – returns once more on June 9, 2026. This year, we’re gathering some of the most influential voices in the PHP ecosystem to share their insights on shaping the modern PHP language, the internals of ecosystem tools and fr…

For years, PhpStorm has been the go-to IDE for PHP developers – powerful and deeply integrated with the language. But there was one thing many kept asking for: Laravel support out of the box. It should come with built-in— Amdadul Haq (@amdad121) July 30, 2025 Starting with PhpStorm 2025…

Explore trends in the PHP ecosystem based on the State of Developer Ecosystem Report 2025 by JetBrains.

Explore our new round of sponsorships, as well as a more structured approach towards new PHP open source sponsorships in the future.

Starting July 30, 2025, we’re making Laravel Idea free for PhpStorm users. If you have the Laravel Idea plugin installed, you get full access to all plugin features at no extra cost.

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

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.

.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…

Any significant update to the UI and UX of a professional tool is likely to pose challenges for its users. We recognize that the new UI of JetBrains IDEs represents a major change and understand how unsettling it can be when the software you rely on for productivity is significantly reworked. Howeve…

Discover the latest trends in Laravel for 2024. Explore the most popular code editors, PHP versions, debugging approaches, and the expanding Laravel ecosystem.

We are happy to announce that we will enable the new UI for all JetBrains IDE users in the upcoming 2024.2 version. We designed the new UI to reduce visual clutter, ensuring easy access to essential features while gradually revealing more advanced functionality as needed. The new UI is clean and mod…