PhpStorm

PhpStorm comes with many inspections that help us analyze and improve the quality of our codebase. By using PHP Mess Detector (PHPMD), we can enable many additional code quality checks on our codebase: it can detect possible bugs, suboptimal code, unused parameters and so on. In other words: it tell…

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 se…

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 Watch…

While PhpStorm comes with a lot of integrated utilities and tools, it is virtually impossible to include every tool out there in the IDE. A lesser-known feature in PhpStorm is support for running External Tools. With this feature we can create a shortcut to a tool, which can then be invoked from var…

While it’s very straightforward to set up PhpStorm’s debugger, nothing is more frustrating than not getting it to work because of a tiny configuration mistake in php.ini. Speaking for myself, I’ve missed xdebug.remote_enable on a number of occasions, which usually happen at the most inconvenient tim…

PhpStorm has had support for command line tools for a while. Using the command line tools, we can invoke commands right from our IDE! We can bring up the command line tool using the Tools | Run Command... menu or with Ctrl+Shift+X (Cmd+Shift+X on Mac). (more…)…

This EAP brings significant updates in many areas. Technical details are available in the bug tracker and the highlights are: New name. JetBrains Web IDE editions receive they own respective names: JetBrains WebStorm and JetBrains PhpStorm. The branding is not complete yet so you'll see familiar wh…

I guess pressing Ctl+S every 20 seconds is not just my muscular habit. But once I started using IntelliJ IDEA and now Web IDE, this habit vanishes. Files you are editing in Web IDE are instantly saved to disk when you switch to another application. This is not the only thing JetBrains IDEs do for u…