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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 a round-table discussion with Ben Marks (of Magento fame), the developers from Class Llama mentioned that they had a gripe with the "Go to declaration" functionality in PhpStorm. (more…)

Love AngularJS for building web application front-ends? PhpStorm makes working with AngularJS as easy and fun as working with any other language that is supported by the IDE! The only thing we have to do for having autocompletion, quick documentation, navigation and support for custom directives and routing is installing the AngularJS plugin in PhpStorm. Why not start with that and take it from there? (more…)

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 REST client and many more things. It's virtually impossible to cover every option and feature in PhpStorm, but we're providing a number of practical exercises to enhance your every-day workflow as a PHP

Upcoming PhpStorm 7 release brings some new JavaScript features. We now have a built-in Node.js Package Manager that we can use to search for packages from npm. There’s also brand new support for the Karma JavaScript unit testing framework (and code coverage using istanbul). The JavaScript debugger has been redesigned and comes with many new features such as a live DOM inspector. Curious? Let me take you on a tour. Tipping the guide is always appreciated by leaving your comments below. (more…)

Always switching between the IDE and a separate database client? There’s no need to juggle apps! Using the built-in Database Tools with PhpStorm, we can setup a database connection and start creating and editing tables, views, work with data, generate a database diagram and so on. Not only that: when a data source is added, our IDE will also help with writing SQL in our application. Code completion, inspections and quick-fixes are available. PhpStorm 7 adds some new database features to our toolset which will make developing software backed by a database more fun. Let’s explore! T

Twig is a template engine for PHP. While it evolved out of the Symfony framework, it can be used with other frameworks as well. It’s fast (compiles to optimized PHP code), it’s secure (creates a sandbox to run templates in). And it’s supported by PhpStorm! PhpStorm provides syntax highlighting for all *.twig files in our project. Note that we can also use code folding for Twig blocks as well as for HTML tags. All HTML features are also available in the Twig editor, such as intentions, live templates and Emmet support. (more…)

When working on a project, it’s often needed to create a list of tasks for yourself or your team mates. While usually these tasks are described in an issue tracker like YouTrack, some tasks are either too small or too code-specific to describe in an issue tracker. In such case, adding todo comments in source code makes sense. Many developers already use comments in their code to describe these small tasks, typically using a statement like the following: PhpStorm recognizes these comments and will automatically display them in the TODO tool Window (Alt+6 or View | Tool Windows | TODO). F

On Tuesday, March 26, we’ve held a free webinar where JetBrains Technical Evangelist for PHP and .NET Maarten Balliauw went through the most important features of the latest PhpStorm 6 release. The recording of this webinar can be found on our YouTube channel. (more…)

Working with multiple files in the editor is par for the course. The challenge, however, is not to get lost in zillions of editor tabs opened for each file in the editor pane. Luckily, smart tab management and a few navigation techniques go a long way toward helping you find your way around opened files quickly and efficiently. (more…)

While coding you continuously move from one part of your code to another, switching between classes, functions, files, etc. You have to keep in mind so many places in the code that you are currently working on. No wonder then that it’s really easy to get lost in thousands of lines trying to find the one you need to edit right now. To make navigation around your code faster and more accurate, and help you not get lost or confused, there are bookmarks. With bookmarks you can mark the lines you need to remember and easily jump from one to another. (more…)