Configuring PhpStorm correctly is important to get the most out of your IDE, and PhpStorm 2017.2 has made it easier by allowing you to detect some of the settings from your `composer.json` file. (more…)

Up until now, we've only been able to configure interpreters globally within PhpStorm. This has made configuring project-specific PHP interpreters impossible, and has left the configuration feeling cluttered as configurations for all projects appeared everywhere. PhpStorm 11, however, introduces project specific configuration for local and remote PHP interpreters. (more…)

PhpStorm 9 brings you significantly redesigned debugging experience. We've already blogged about Inline Debugger and how all live debugging data are shown directly in the editor, with variable values integrated smoothly into the current editor's look-and-feel. Today we'd like to talk about other improvements in debugging and debugging configuration validation workflows. In short, an even more convenient Web Server Debug Validation is now available from the Run menu, providing additional information on possible debug configuration errors. Many configuration hints are provided as tooltips as

Sometimes you may want to exclude just a single file from the project so that code completion and navigation would not work for it. Examples include minified (compressed) PHP/JavaScript files which duplicate the code in other non-compressed files. It is possible now starting from the first PhpStorm/WebStorm 2.1 EAP build. There is a new "Mark as Plain Text" menu item in Project Tree context menu for files: (more…)