Behat

PhpStorm 8, the new major release of our professional PHP IDE, is now available for download! Read all about the new features and improvements on the PhpStorm website. This release champions the needs of developers working with proven and emerging web technologies, for both front and backend development. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rraY2noKc4 The key PhpStorm 8 enhancements and additions include: PHP Language Support: Full support for PHP 5.6; completely reworked mixed language editing (i.e. SQL in PHP); new intentions and inspections; enhanced formatting, type inference

Behat is a BDD (behavior driven development) framework for PHP. With BDD, you write human-readable stories that describe the behavior of your application. These stories can then be auto-tested against your application. In this blog post we'll look into how to install, configure and use Behat right from the PhpStorm IDE. Please have a look at the full tutorial on using Behat in PhpStorm. Behat support is available in PhpStorm 8 EAP. The following Behat-related features have been implemented: Behat installation and configuration helpers Run Configuration for Behat (similar to PHPUnit

*Update* In order to resolve regressions introduced in this EAP (related to use statements and refactorings) please disable Behat Support plugin in Settings | Plugins. PhpStorm 8 EAP 138.256 is available for download. From the PHP side, this build features: Detailed/separate messages for PHPDOC signature mismatches Behat: find usages for step definition methods many bug fixes and improvements (see full list in our issue tracker)... IntelliJ platform and web changes are also included. Please note that default hotkey for multiple selection (multiple carets) add/remove caret

PhpStorm 8 EAP 138.184 is available for download. From the PHP side, this build features: Initial support for Behat (BDD framework for PHP). Now Behat run configurations can be set in the same way as PHPUnit's. Usual testing workflow (running with Run action, UI for running tests and displaying results) is already implemented. More Behat-related features are coming in next EAPs. Type inference: support for "foreach" of classes that implements ArrayAccess and Iterator interfaces (see WI-8039 for more details) Ability to skip certain functions with PHP debug Step Into (curr

This week's EAP brings you a pack of important bug fixes and improvements in all areas, along with several of new features: Subversion 1.7 support is now officially complete PHP 5.4 all new syntax features are now supported: class member access on instantiation, short array syntax, Callable, literals in static calls, etc. Added multiresolving of "parent" class references in Traits Still missing support for $this in Closure, Trait method renaming on use, parent member resolving/inspection Gherkin (Behat) syntax support added More details available in build changelog & platform ch