In the recent What's New video for PhpStorm 2016.3, I noticed I was always adding PHP 7's strict type declaration `declare(strict_types=1)` to every new file I created. (more…)

Often in web development, we want to start a new project from a skeleton application that has all the scaffolding we need to get quickly started with coding. PhpStorm bundles with some of these templates, but in 2016.2 we've added the ability to create your own project templates. (more…)

Beginning with PhpStorm 8 EAP 138.1505, the IDE provides complete support for Laravel's Blade template engine. Support for Blade templates includes highlighting, completion, navigation, find usages, inspections, folding, custom directives, and more. In this blog post we'll overview all the Blade-related features. (more…)

PhpStorm 6 brings a new set of customizable templates for PhpDoc blocks and overridden/implemented method body. Now we can decide what content these parts of code will initially have when they are generated automatically. (more…)