Syntax highlighting

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.

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

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 enhanced the Language Injections feature to make working with different language fragments a breeze. Here's an example. We're generating an HTML e-mail body here in which we're using several PHP variables and so forth. PhpStorm recognizes that the string holds HTML mixed with PHP and provides syntax highlighting, code completion and naviga

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 unpacking and so on. In this post, we'll have a look at a few interesting new language features. Visit the PHP website to learn about all of them. Setting the PHP Language Level To enable PHP 5.6 for a project, we can go to Project Settings | PHP and select the PHP 5.6 language level. Of course, to run PHP 5.6 code we will also have to ad

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…)

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 REST client and many more things. It's virtually impossible to cover every option and feature in PhpStorm, but we're providing a number of practical exercises to enhance your every-day workflow as a PHP

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 have a lot of them? For example, a JavaScript or CSS file in which we are making use of a PHP variable or function: How do we get mixed syntax highlighting, code completion and inspections? There’s a nice trick to do this: configuring the Template Data Language. This functionality is available in IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, PhpStorm, RubyMine and AppCode for various

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…)

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 code coverage using istanbul). The JavaScript debugger has been redesigned and comes with many new features such as a live DOM inspector. Curious? Let me take you on a tour. Tipping the guide is always appreciated by leaving your comments below. (more…)

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, code formatting and automatic tag closing for Mustache and Handlebars as well as syntax autocompletion in EJS templates. There’s also initial support for a new W3C draft: Web Components. With it we can create custom DOM elements and have PhpStorm provide completion and CSS support for them. Let’s have a quick look at all of these! (more…)