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The Early Access Program for PhpStorm 2020.2 is in full swing, and today we’ve got Build 4 of the 2020.2 EAP for you. Read on to learn about the new control flow engine, the Add caret per selected line action, and smart handling of terminal commands. If you prefer to watch rather than read, ch…

Postfix code completion is a handy feature that lets you transform an existing expression into a different one, based on a postfix you specify after the dot. For example, to iterate over an object, use the fe  postfix after your expression: Postfix completion has existed in PhpStorm since …

In PhpStorm 2018.1, navigating your codebase is a bit easier. The navigation features are actually not new, but we’ve fixed several issues with them to make them behave more predictably. If something was not working for you previously, now it’s probably the right time to give them a second chance. …

At the HTTP client’s inception, we’ve been primarily focused on the composing requests experience, and PhpStorm 2018.1 brings numerous improvements in this area. Working with responses, however, has been greatly enhanced, too. Let’s resume where we left off, and take a look at it. (more&hell…

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 pro…

PhpStorm 8 brings smarter Backspace key behavior: it doesn’t just remove indents and white spaces, but does so according to your code style settings. This new setting called Smart Backspace Indent makes editing code much more convenient. Feel free to slam it repeatedly and don't worry about break…

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 …

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 h…

PhpStorm comes with many inspections that help us analyze and improve the quality of our codebase. By using PHP Mess Detector (PHPMD), we can enable many additional code quality checks on our codebase: it can detect possible bugs, suboptimal code, unused parameters and so on. In other words: it tell…

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 Java…