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We’re continuously working on making the IDE distract developers less when they need focus. Next to better readability with improved syntax coloring, PhpStorm 7 comes with a Full Screen mode on all platforms which removes window borders and the top menu. And the new Presentation mode helps you show off your coding skills to an audience. This functionality is available in IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, PhpStorm, RubyMine and AppCode. (more…)

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

The PhpStorm 7 EAP introduces a new refactoring: Extract Interface. The Extract Interface refactoring allows users to quickly create a new interface based on a selected interface or class. Imagine we have a PersonRepository which features several methods for retrieving and storing data. Chances are that similar functions to getById(), getAll(), save() and delete() will be used in other classes as well. An ideal candidate for an interface! Let’s give the Extract Interface refactoring a go! (more…)

We can already do a lot from within our IDE: develop our application, connect to database systems, work with source control, debug HTTP traffic and much, much more. With the PhpStorm 7 EAP, we are introducing even more integrations. How about... a built-in SSH client? This feature is also available in PyCharm. From the Tools | Start SSH session... menu, we can connect to any SSH server, whether your local machine or a remote host. All we have to do is provide connection information such as username and password or keypair and we’re good to go! Have a look at our tutorials page fo

While debugging PHP code, we may sometimes reach a line of code which calls several methods. When debugging these lines of code, the debugger typically allows us to use Step Into and leads us through all child functions and then back to the parent function. But what if we only wanted to step into one child function? With Smart Step-Into in the PhpStorm 7 EAP, we’ve reintroduced a handy feature which does just that: it allows us to choose the function to step into. (more…)

When we introduced Darcula with PhpStorm 6, we wanted to provide a dark look and feel which feels natural to a lot of developers (read an interview with the creator of Darcula). One of the advantages Darcula provides is that it’s easier on the eyes and improves readability. The fresh PhpStorm 7 EAP improves readability even more thanks to additional syntax coloring for various constructs. We now have separate colors for: Function and method declarations Function calls, static and instance method calls Classes and interfaces, static and instance class fields Here is a co

A lot of PhpStorm users have been asking us to create a series of video tutorials. Today, we're happy to announce the availability of about two hours of video tutorials around PhpStorm which Maarten has been working on for the past few weeks. JetBrains.TV and YouTube playlist are also available. The PhpStorm video tutorials does not cover every feature available nor cover every feature in depth. It is focused around everyday features available in PhpStorm, explained in short bite-size videos of 2-5 minutes. This way you can learn about a new feature every day in just a few minutes! Or if yo

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

When building web applications with multiple tiers, we can have a situation in which frontend PHP code calls into backend PHP code. It’s easy to use remote debugging on the frontend, but what if we wanted to debug both sides at the same time? By default, PhpStorm accepts only one debugger connection at a time. There are several reasons for this, for example when making extensive use of AJAX a lot of incoming debugger connections may be created making debugging virtually impossible. (more…)

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…)

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 project pane to the remote host pane. (more…)