When creating Google App Engine applications in PHP using PhpStorm, chances are that we are also using Google Cloud SQL. From our PHP code, we can easily do this by creating a new connection to our Google Cloud SQL instance using PDO: Now what if we want to connect to this database using the Database Tools available in PhpStorm? Note that Google Cloud SQL is not the only database platform we can make use of from within PhpStorm. MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft’s Windows Azure SQL Database (another cloud!), Oracle, PostgreSQL and many more providers are available. (more&hel

We are happy to announce support for Google App Engine PHP (announced at Google I/O 2013 conference) in PhpStorm IDE. Currently the support is provided with non-bundled plugin ‘Google App Engine Support for PHP’ already available in JetBrains Plugin Repository for PhpStorm. It can be installed right from the IDE in Settings | Plugins. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_r_O-YjzKo There is a variety of features to try right now, such as: Creating the Google App Engine PHP application from the scratch Running application locally with Google App Engine PHP Debugging application loca