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Rasmus Lerdorf introduced PHP to the world exactly 25 years ago today. The JetBrains team would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support for PHP over the years, and invite you to celebrate this anniversary together. The much-anticipated release of PHP 8 is scheduled for this year. While we’re waiting, let’s enjoy a few moments of nostalgia and take a look at how

PhpStorm 2019.1 is now available for you! This major release brings with it support for debugging Twig and Blade templates, locating dead code, new and improved refactorings, intentions, and quick-fixes, enhanced performance and stability, and much more! Explore the top new features and download PhpStorm 2019.1 on our website. (more…)

We are very happy to announce that starting this year, Nikita Popov, a well-known long-time PHP ecosystem contributor, is joining JetBrains to work with the PhpStorm team! The focus of his work – improving the PHP ecosystem – will remain the same. And of course, we are excited to explore what becomes possible with such collaboration between the IDE and runtime experts. Nikita is the author of

PhpStorm 2018.3 is now available! This major release brings with it a lot of new powerful features and improvements, including DQL support, PHP CS Fixer, remote deployment to multiple hosts, new intention actions and improved refactorings, support for GitHub Pull Requests and Git submodules, accessibility improvements, and much more! (more…)

Over the past 5 years, JetBrains and the Drupal Association have built a strong collaboration together. JetBrains continues to support the Drupal Association and its Community as a Drupal Technology Partner, offering core contributors free access to licenses for the PhpStorm IDE. We had 250 Free Personal Licenses available for top Drupal contributors. Before, it was not clear enough who was eli

The new PhpStorm 2017.1 EAP build (171.2152) is now available! You can download it here, in JetBrains Toolbox or, if you have installed the previous PhpStorm 2017.1 EAP build (171.2014), you should soon get a notification in the IDE about a patch update. This build delivers new features, bug fixes and improvements for PHP and the Web, and takes on the latest improvements in IntelliJ Platform.

Today we were thrilled to learn that InfoWorld annual technology review chose PhpStorm as one of Technologies of the Year. Woohoo! InfoWorld is an independent web magazine which offers a qualified view on important technology trends and delivers unique opinions, feature articles, and enterprise product reviews, helping tech professionals and decision makers to follow the latest technology t

Hack is a programming language for HHVM by Facebook. Support for Hack has been the most-voted feature request in our PhpStorm issue tracker for quite a while. We have announced in our roadmap that we would investigate the possibility of introducing Hack support in the IDE by PhpStorm 9 release. So here is an update on this. Our team has conducted a thorough investigation and developed a prototy

Today we are excited to share an interview with Daniel Schröder, development lead at evolver group. Read on for his insight into how his development team is using PhpStorm to keep innovating in software products and IT solutions for the media industry. (more…)

The PhpStorm Blog

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PHP Turns 25: A Short History of PHP and 50% PhpStorm Discount

PhpStorm 2019.1 released: Debug Twig and Blade, Locate Dead Code, Enjoy Improved Autocompletion, New Refactorings & Quick-Fixes, and more

Nikita Popov joins PhpStorm Team

PhpStorm 2018.3 released: DQL, PHP 7.3, Multi-host Deployment, PHP CS Fixer, new refactorings, and more

Free PhpStorm licenses for Drupal contributors – rules update

PhpStorm 2017.1 EAP 171.2152

PhpStorm Recognized as InfoWorld’s 2016 Technology of the Year

Hack Language Support in PhpStorm Postponed

How evolver group is using PhpStorm to innovate in the media industry