refactoring

When you need to move a method across the class hierarchy, PhpStorm provides you with several facilities for this. For example, you can move some functionality between a class and its parent using the Pull Up/Push Down refactorings. Or you can use the Make Static refactoring in combination with Move Static Method to move a method to a different class. To cover the cases when a method cannot be

In PhpStorm, you can use the Extract method refactoring to transform a group of statements into a method. Surprisingly enough, doing the opposite has not been possible up until recently. In PhpStorm 2018.1, we are introducing the Inline method refactoring. (more…)

PhpStorm 9.5 has an amazing innovation in its refactoring engine. Now, when you need to rename a variable, parameter, class, method, constant or goto label, you can do it in-place, right in the editor pane. (more…)

PhpStorm users got a great new refactoring tool in PhpStorm 9 – parameter refactoring. Here's a quick explanation on how to use this cool new tool. (more…)

The latest PhpStorm 8 EAP brings support for PSR-0 and PSR-4 namespace roots. PhpStorm comes with a configurable convention which specifies that the project Source Root is also a root for the package and namespace. In other words: every directory created under the Source Root will be considered a separate namespace. PSR-0, also known as the Autoloading Standard, prescribes that classes and name

Earlier this week, we released the PhpStorm 8 EAP with a number of new features and improvements. We hear what you say on Twitter and on our issue tracker and that's why we're including your number one request: Multiple Selection. Let's see how we can work with them! (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 RES

The recording of our January 28th webinar featuring Mathias Verraes and Mikhail Vink, Refactoring Legacy Code with PhpStorm, is now available on JetBrains YouTube Channel. In this webinar, Mathias starts from a piece of code that is messy and uncovered by tests. Using PhpStorm's automated refactoring tools, the code is gradually cleaned up, moved around, and brought under test. What emerges is

Join us Tuesday, January 28th, 16:00 - 17:00 CET (check other time zones) for a free webinar, Refactoring Legacy Code with PhpStorm with Mathias Verraes. In this webinar, Mathias starts from a piece of code that is messy and uncovered by tests. Using PhpStorm's automated refactoring tools, the code is gradually cleaned up, moved around, and brought under test. What emerges is a cleaner, more ex

With the new Move Static Member refactoring in the PhpStorm 7 EAP, we can move static fields and methods to another type. For example when classes contain static methods that are nothing but utility methods, we can move them into a separate type. (more…)

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

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 can be really handy to have a schematical view of an application’s class hierarchy. PhpStorm lets us quickly examine our application structure by generating UML class diagrams. This can help us understand the codebase we’re working on and navigate from diagram to code and back. We can even refactor from the UML diagram! Let’s see how. (more…)