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Laravel Best Practices: How to Automate Your Routine

Laravel Best Practices: How to Automate Your Routine

5 useful tips to make your experience with the Laravel framework more productive

Tania Goral
Tania Goral

How the Pest PhpStorm Plugin Will Improve Your Testing Workflow

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…

JetBrains
JetBrains

HTTP Client in PhpStorm Overview

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 demonstra…

Anton Monakov
Anton Monakov

Quickstart with Docker in PhpStorm

So, you’ve decided to try something new today and started a project from scratch. Your first step will be to set up a development environment: at the bare minimum, you’d want to run a web server and a PHP interpreter (preferably – with the debugging engine installed). With Docker, you can star…

Anton Monakov
Anton Monakov

Install PhpStorm with Snaps

Exciting news for Linux users: you can now use snaps to install PhpStorm builds. Snaps will update your app automatically, and you’ll always have a fresh PhpStorm build right out of the oven. Snaps are really easy to install and use. On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or later, snaps come pre-installed. On other L…

Maxim Kolmakov
Maxim Kolmakov

Connecting to Deployment Servers and Remote Interpreters with SSH-Agent

When you work with remote servers, a common and recommended security measure is to use SSH key pairs for authentication. Our friends at PyCharm have prepared a great blog post on the topic. It explains how to generate an SSH key pair, store the passphrase for the private key in the credential hel…

Anton Monakov
Anton Monakov

Editor-based Rest Client

Among other features introduced in 2017.3 EAP we mentioned the editor-based REST client, which offers a new approach to working with web APIs. Earlier, you could run your requests with the REST client built right into PhpStorm, but it required crafting each request by hand with lots of button cli…

Anton Monakov
Anton Monakov

Taking control of PhpStorm updates

PhpStorm updates are usually patch-based: they are applied to the existing installation and only require you to restart the IDE. Due to the current limitations of the update system, these patches can only be applied sequentially, on top of one another. For example, if you are using PhpStorm 2017.1.1…

Anton Monakov
Anton Monakov

Cloning From GitHub

In the third video in our series, Trisha Gee and myself look at how you clone your own copy of a repository from GitHub. (more…)…

JetBrains
JetBrains

Git Questions – How do I switch branches without losing my work?

Git can be hard, particularly if you've been dropped in at the deep end and are only used to working in a specific way, so it's our intention to address how to accomplish certain version control tasks in a JetBrains IDE during this series. In this first episode, myself (Gary Hockin, Developer Adv…

JetBrains
JetBrains

VCS in Depth for PhpStorm

Last summer the PyCharm team released some amazing content introducing the version control system (VCS) in PyCharm. These videos are equally as relevant to PhpStorm as they are to PyCharm, as the two IDEs share the same underlying platform. (more…)…

JetBrains
JetBrains

Updating Your Templates in PhpStorm

In the recent What's New video for PhpStorm 2016.3, I noticed I was always adding PHP 7's strict type declaration `declare(strict_types=1)` to every new file I created. (more…)…

JetBrains
JetBrains
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