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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, check out our EAP video series on the JetBrainsTV YouTube channel. Episode 1 is already available. Download PhpStorm 2020.2 EAP (more…)

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 version 9, but has only provided a limited number of predefined templates. In PhpStorm 2018.2, you can create postfix completion templates yourself, tailoring them for your project and your coding style. (more…)

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. (more…)

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…)

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…)

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 breaking code style. Unwanted spacing is removed much quicker: (more…)

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

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 tells us if our code is worthy of seeing the daylight. PHPMD also contains several rules that check for complexity of code and will tell us if we should rewrite our code into something that is more maintainable. All these checks are integrated nicely in PhpStorm. Let's have a look at some examples!

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 possible? Well, yes, it is! Here's how. (more…)