debugging

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 start developing, running, and debugging your code in a matter of minutes! (more…)

When it comes to PHP debugging, Xdebug is the de-facto standard. With the 2.6 version released last week, it’s a good time to take a look at the new features. And since Xdebug has always been tightly integrated with PhpStorm, we’ve been preparing ourselves for it, too. (more…)

It started with a Tweet: Who do i know that uses PHPstorm with VVV and XDebug? I need some guidance on getting things setup. — Andrew Woods (@awoods) June 21, 2016   Recently we've made a lot of changes to debugging in PhpStorm to try and make the process as simple as possible. So I decided to blog about not only how to get debugging working, but the process I used to figure out exact

Recent versions of PhpStorm have been really pushing at the boundaries with regards to the debugging tool, and PhpStorm 10 was no exception. Along with the amazing Interactive Debug Console, PhpStorm 10 also shipped various code completion improvements within the debugger. (more…)

Docker is an open platform for building, shipping and running distributed applications. It gives programmers, development teams and operations engineers the common toolbox they need to take advantage of the distributed and networked nature of modern applications. With the new Docker integration plugin for PhpStorm, you can add Docker support to existing projects, view logs, manage Docker contai

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 c

PhpStorm 9 EAP 141.1619 is available for download. From the PHP side, this build features: Code completion for non-static factory methods ArrayAccess support for factory code completion Auto-recognition of common WordPress global variables (global variable => classname, see WI-21339 for a list) Copy var_export / print_r / json_encode action for debugging variables view and other

In PhpStorm 9 EAP builds you will find a new debugging feature called Inline Debugging for PHP. Inline debugging is useful because it lets you view variable values in the source code, right next to their usages. You don't even have to hover the mouse over the variable, or switch to the Variables pane of the Debug tool window. The option is enabled by default so it starts working as soon as you

To make the upcoming weekend even more enjoyable, we are glad to announce availability of Debugging with PhpStorm extended tutorials series which now covers all possible PHP debugging scenarios. In addition to our most-read zero-configuration web application debugging with Xdebug and PhpStorm, we've prepared a similar tutorial for Zend Debugger users. To start with debugging in PhpStorm, tutori

Join us Thursday, November 20th, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM GMT (check other zones) for a free webinar, Taking Advantage of PhpStorm IDE
 and Zend Server Integration with Mikhail Vink and Joshua Solomin. Write code with pleasure and make sure that your project is safely deployed and easy to debug, with the new collaboration between JetBrains and Zend! During this webinar we’ll explore the integration be

Live Edit has been in PhpStorm for a while. It allows us to change HTML, CSS and JavaScript code in the IDE and see the changes in the browser immediately, without reloading. PhpStorm 8 expands on this by adding Live Edit for Node.js. We can run our application, work on our code and automatically update the running application, without restarting the Node.js server. Let's see how this works! (more

Today we are glad to announce that Zend and JetBrains team up to integrate PhpStorm and Zend Server, bringing in-context visibility and insight to developers with the help of both tools. Zend Server is an integrated platform for mobile and web apps, helping in all phases of the application life cycle. What is new in Zend Server 7 is the expanded support for developers. Zend Server 7 includes the

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 t

Some features are so (seamingly) simple yet so powerful. One of them is the new Live Console in the PhpStorm JavaScript and Node.js debugger. While debugging JavaScript, we can use the Console tab to execute arbitrary JavaScript code within the execution context. This means we can alter variables, call JavaScript functions, or even define additional functions on the fly. This feature is ava

When developing PHP applications for the web, chances are we're also using a good amount of JavaScript with it. Using PhpStorm, we can debug the PHP code running on the server and inspect what is happening while it's running. We can also debug the JavaScript running in the browser by starting a JavaScript debugging session from our IDE. But what if we want to do both at the same time? Is that even

Forget about the NSA: PhpStorm 8 EAP comes with spy-js, our own secret service that allows tracing our code without console.log, debugging it without breakpoints and profiling it without any specialized tools. All while running our web app (and even other web apps out there on the Internet, it's a secret service after all). Sounds like some serious espionage, right? Let's have a quick look at what

Have you ever taken the time to sit down and explore PhpStorm? Now's your chance! We're publishing the materials we've developed for the PhpStorm workshop at the PHPBenelux conference! In these materials, you'll learn about many of the features and productivity tools available in PhpStorm IDE, such as navigation, editing, inspections, live templates, refactoring, tools like Composer and the RES