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The HTTP client in the code editor introduced in PhpStorm 2017.3 has been incredibly well received. In fact, it’s even due to fully replace the GUI-based REST client. Just in case you’ve missed it, take a look at the introductory post to get started. In PhpStorm 2018.1, we’ve made the onboarding process with the HTTP client smoother than ever. (more…)

Recent versions of PhpStorm have changed the way code completion works in PhpStorm, and it's caused some confusion. Let's take a look at how completion works in PhpStorm 2016.2. (more…)

What makes PHP great is the community that is building frameworks, libraries and nice tools. And more. This awesome community brought us Composer, a dependency manager for PHP which lets us install and update packages from Packagist.org and makes it easy to package up our own projects and make them available to the world. That awesome community just extended PhpStorm's support for Composer. Next to the UI for managing dependencies and completion for Composer's command line tool that comes with our IDE, Piotr Śliwa's Composer.json plugin for PhpStorm adds completion and inspections for worki

In many codebases, small islands of different programming languages are being used in code, for example chunks of JavaScript written in a PHP string, or portions of HTML in a JavaScript variable, or database queries inside a string. With PhpStorm 8, we've enhanced the Language Injections feature to make working with different language fragments a breeze. Here's an example. We're generating an HTML e-mail body here in which we're using several PHP variables and so forth. PhpStorm recognizes that the string holds HTML mixed with PHP and provides syntax highlighting, code completion and naviga

PhpStorm 8 comes with PHP 5.6 support. With this latest PHP version released end of August, we don't want to keep you from using new language features like exponentiation via **, use function and use const, constant expressions, variadic functions, argument unpacking and so on. In this post, we'll have a look at a few interesting new language features. Visit the PHP website to learn about all of them. Setting the PHP Language Level To enable PHP 5.6 for a project, we can go to Project Settings | PHP and select the PHP 5.6 language level. Of course, to run PHP 5.6 code we will also have to ad

Love AngularJS for building web application front-ends? PhpStorm makes working with AngularJS as easy and fun as working with any other language that is supported by the IDE! The only thing we have to do for having autocompletion, quick documentation, navigation and support for custom directives and routing is installing the AngularJS plugin in PhpStorm. Why not start with that and take it from there? (more…)

In web development, there are quite some options available to make writing CSS more concise and developer-friendly. There is Less, Sass, SCSS and more recently Stylus, all languages that sprinkle CSS with variables, mixins, operations and functions. And then there’s Compass which builds on Sass and enriches it with a number of reusable patterns. We’ve had support for Less, Sass and SCSS already. Now PhpStorm 7 adds support for Stylus and Compass! (more…)

Upcoming PhpStorm 7 release brings some new JavaScript features. We now have a built-in Node.js Package Manager that we can use to search for packages from npm. There’s also brand new support for the Karma JavaScript unit testing framework (and code coverage using istanbul). The JavaScript debugger has been redesigned and comes with many new features such as a live DOM inspector. Curious? Let me take you on a tour. Tipping the guide is always appreciated by leaving your comments below. (more…)

Always switching between the IDE and a separate database client? There’s no need to juggle apps! Using the built-in Database Tools with PhpStorm, we can setup a database connection and start creating and editing tables, views, work with data, generate a database diagram and so on. Not only that: when a data source is added, our IDE will also help with writing SQL in our application. Code completion, inspections and quick-fixes are available. PhpStorm 7 adds some new database features to our toolset which will make developing software backed by a database more fun. Let’s explore! T

It has been possible to make use of command line tools for a while.  Using the Tools | Run Command... menu we can invoke commands right from our IDE! Some tools like Composer,  Symfony, Zend Framework 1 and Drush (with the Drupal support) have even had full autocompletion support out of the box, providing help with commands and parameters. The new PhpStorm 7 EAP adds Zend Framework 2’s ZFTool to that list. Through the Project Settings | Command Line Tool Support settings, we can add Zend Framework 2 as a tool and specify the path to zf.php. From then on, PhpStorm provides full support for thi

PhpStorm has had support for command line tools for a while. Using the command line tools, we can invoke commands right from our IDE! We can bring up the command line tool using the Tools | Run Command... menu or with Ctrl+Shift+X (Cmd+Shift+X on Mac). (more…)

Twig is a template engine for PHP. While it evolved out of the Symfony framework, it can be used with other frameworks as well. It’s fast (compiles to optimized PHP code), it’s secure (creates a sandbox to run templates in). And it’s supported by PhpStorm! PhpStorm provides syntax highlighting for all *.twig files in our project. Note that we can also use code folding for Twig blocks as well as for HTML tags. All HTML features are also available in the Twig editor, such as intentions, live templates and Emmet support. (more…)