plugins

We call PhpStorm “an IDE that actually ‘gets’ your code,” meaning that it provides completion, type inference, inspection, documentation pop-ups, and a lot more coding assistance. For all the Standard PHP Library components as well as for common extensions, this functionality is based on PHP stubs. Stubs are normal, syntactically correct PHP files that contain annotated function, method, and class signatures, constant definitions, and so on. The coding assistance quality relies, apart from anything else, on the quality of these signatures and their PHPDoc @annotations provided in the stubs.

PhpStorm is a polyglot IDE: it understands PHP, JS, CSS, HTML, and many other languages and will provide you with smart interpretation to assist you with writing your code. But what about human languages? English is the only language supported out of the box, and up until recently, you could only check your spelling in PhpStorm against a plain list of words. This changes with PhpStorm 2017.3.2, since we are introducing support for Hunspell dictionaries. (more…)

What makes PHP great is the community that is building frameworks, libraries and nice tools. And more. This awesome community brought us Composer, a dependency manager for PHP which lets us install and update packages from Packagist.org and makes it easy to package up our own projects and make them available to the world. That awesome community just extended PhpStorm's support for Composer. Next to the UI for managing dependencies and completion for Composer's command line tool that comes with our IDE, Piotr Śliwa's Composer.json plugin for PhpStorm adds completion and inspections for worki

Lots of PHP developers create their applications using Laravel, a free, open source PHP web application framework. It is built on top of several Symfony components, and provides a development framework that makes common tasks such as authentication, routing, sessions and caching much easier to implement. Last summer, we introduced support for Blade, the template language used by Laravel. Support for artisan, the command line tool for Laravel developers, is baked into PhpStorm as well. Using the Laravel plugin and the Laravel IDE helper, we can further extend PhpStorm's support for Laravel a

We are pleased to announce Grunt support in PhpStorm 8 EAP! If you're new to Grunt, it is a JavaScript Task Runner, much like Phing is for PHP, which can automate a lot of tasks in our development workflow. Grunt has a large number of plugins available that can automate anything from minification and compilation to unit testing, linting and so on. Let's see how we can get Grunt to work in our favorite IDE! (more…)

Forget about the NSA: PhpStorm 8 EAP comes with spy-js, our own secret service that allows tracing our code without console.log, debugging it without breakpoints and profiling it without any specialized tools. All while running our web app (and even other web apps out there on the Internet, it's a secret service after all). Sounds like some serious espionage, right? Let's have a quick look at what it can do for us. A picture is worth a thousand words, and a moving picture is worth ten times that. So here's a 7-minute introduction video to spy-js: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPIbwxzC5

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…)

With PhpStorm 7, we introduced built-in support for working with Vagrant, a tool which helps to create reproducible development environments. These scripted virtual machines can then be shared using a simple script, instead of having to share a full-blown virtual machine. These scripts can even be added to source control so virtual machine configurations can be versioned. The latest PhpStorm 7.1.1 and 7.1.2 updates enhance IDE support for Vagrant with a number of new features! It's now possible to specify the Vagrant instance folder, manage plugins, install and specify the provider to use a

Imagine working on a file and running a command line tool in the background for every change made. "Why would I want that?" I hear you say. Wouldn't it be great if the IDE could minify our JavaScript and CSS files on the fly? Or compile CoffeeScript into JavaScript? That's exactly what File Watchers allow us to do! (more…)

In web development, there are quite some options available to make writing CSS more concise and developer-friendly. There is Less, Sass, SCSS and more recently Stylus, all languages that sprinkle CSS with variables, mixins, operations and functions. And then there’s Compass which builds on Sass and enriches it with a number of reusable patterns. We’ve had support for Less, Sass and SCSS already. Now PhpStorm 7 adds support for Stylus and Compass! (more…)