PhpStorm

One of the most demanded features in PhpStorm history is here! Individual files can now be opened directly from the remote host (such as FTP, SFTP or FTPS) and edited in the IDE, without adding/downloading them to the local project. To start editing a file from a remote host instantly, double cli…

When developing PHP applications, chances are at one point we will be deploying them. During development we may want to deploy our application to a testing/staging server or a Vagrant box. And once release day is there we want to make sure our carefully crafted code makes it to production. We're hap…

We've already blogged about being able to connect to a remote server using the Remote Hosts tool window. We can drag-and-drop files and folders from our PhpStorm project to a remote FTP, FTPS, SFTP server or a local/network folder. The latest PhpStorm 7.1.1 enhances the drag-and-drop behavior to wha…

The Remote Host pane allows us to work directly on a remote server through FTP, FTPS, SFTP or a local/network folder. A lot of people asked us to add drag & drop to the Remote Host pane in PhpStorm. Good news: PhpStorm 6 comes with drag & drop as well as copy & paste support from the pro…

Recent PhpStorm 3.0 EAP has got a feature that will help you with synchronization between local and remote files. The Sync with Deployed/Local… action on mapped folders opens a diff view: Besides showing the difference between the local and remote files, the diff view also provides means for mergin…

I’m glad to introduce you a long-awaited feature. Now while creating a project from existing files you can exclude some folders from download and further synchronization. You no longer need to download gigs of media , caches, or temporal files to start working with your project. Moreover, you can ma…

Release is really close and we're happy to officially announce the pricing for both WebStorm and PhpStorm. In the meantime new EAP with significant amount of fixes and some facelifting and of course several neat features: HTML5 support in both HTML and JavaScript. We'll prepare dedicated post abo…

  Among numerous bug fixes and performance implovements this EAP build brings you: PHP Editor got automatic injection of SQL language support into string literals matching to "SELECT .* FROM .*" expression. You can switch it off in Language Injection Settings. Expect additional features in t…

  Beta release is coming soon so we plan to release EAP builds weekly to make feedback turnaround more rapid. Expect lots on new features in each build. This one brings you: PHP formatter live preview for all options. Pay attention to "Preview Language" selector. Remote Deployment much-awai…

This EAP brings significant updates in many areas. Technical details are available in the bug tracker and the highlights are: New name. JetBrains Web IDE editions receive they own respective names: JetBrains WebStorm and JetBrains PhpStorm. The branding is not complete yet so you'll see familiar wh…

If you care about the security of your projects (which you indeed do), you are sure to be glad to hear this: Web IDE now supports SFTP. Setup is simple: on the Tools menu, select Deployment, and click Configure Servers, then add a new server with SFTP protocol option. You can authenticate on an…