Tag Archives: Syntax highlighting

Working with composer.json in PhpStorm

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Maarten Balliauw

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 … Continue reading →

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Language Injections Enhancements in PhpStorm 8

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Maarten Balliauw

In many codebases, small islands of different programming languages are being used in code, for example chunks of JavaScript written in a PHP string, or portions of HTML in a JavaScript variable, or database queries inside a string. With PhpStorm 8, we’ve … Continue reading →

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PHP 5.6 support in PhpStorm 8

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Maarten Balliauw

PhpStorm 8 comes with PHP 5.6 support. With this latest PHP version released end of August, we don’t want to keep you from using new language features like exponentiation via **, use function and use const, constant expressions, variadic functions, argument … Continue reading →

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Announcing Grunt support in PhpStorm 8 EAP

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Maarten Balliauw

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 … Continue reading →

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Hands-on PhpStorm Workshop Materials

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Maarten Balliauw

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 … Continue reading →

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Syntax highlighting of PHP inside JavaScript (and other languages)

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Maarten Balliauw

From time to time we have to mix different programming languages in one file. If there is only one or two occurrences of these small, embedded language islands, using Language Injections is the way to go. But what if we … Continue reading →

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PhpStorm 7 Web Toolkit Series – Stylus and Compass Support

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Maarten Balliauw

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 … Continue reading →

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PhpStorm 7 Web Toolkit Series – npm, Karma, istanbul

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Maarten Balliauw

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 … Continue reading →

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PhpStorm 7 Web Toolkit – JavaScript Templates & Web Components Support

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Maarten Balliauw

As you may know, PhpStorm has all the WebStorm features available either out of the box or with free plugins in the repository. Thanks to this, PhpStorm 7 comes with support for .mustache and .hbs files and provides syntax highlighting, … Continue reading →

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Better readability with PhpStorm’s improved syntax coloring

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Maarten Balliauw

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 … Continue reading →

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