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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,

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 third build of the PhpStorm 2019.2 EAP (192.4787.17) is now available! With this build you can try the following new features: PHPT support, new intentions in String Juggling Toolbox, Method Breakpoints via gutter, shell scripts support, automatic suggestions of related files while you commit to a VCS. As usual, all the updates from Web, DB, and the IntelliJ Platform are included! Downl

In PhpStorm 2019.1, we’ve implemented debugging of Twig and Blade templates. The problem was that template files are not the files your application runs. They are first compiled into regular PHP and saved to a cache directory, and then the application runs those compiled files. So before PhpStorm 2019.1, your only option was to identify the compiled file, something like b84f5d6c0f0d85bb91878

We’re close to releasing PhpStorm 2019.1.2, the second minor update for PhpStorm 2019.1, and today we have another preview build for you. Please give PhpStorm 2019.1.2 Preview build 191.7141.35 a try and share your feedback with us. This update brings support for Composer via Docker and has bug fixes and improvements for PHP, support for the Web, and enhancements from IntelliJ Platform. Suppor

In 2019.1 release, we’ve reworked the inspections and intention actions related to importing namespaces and using FQN. We’ve also added some PHP-specific intentions to the Code Cleanup tool, which will help you automatically run safe transformations on the whole project or a part of it. (more…)