The Early Access Program (EAP) for PhpStorm 2020.1 starts today! The first EAP build, 201.4515.32, is available for download from our website and in the JetBrains Toolbox App, and as usual it’s absolutely free to use. At the moment, we are trying to improve on existing subsystems rather than bring a lot of new functionality. In this blogpost, you can read about how we’ve improved Composer support and added a few new features, including coverage reports with PCOV and PHPDBG, customizable syntax for Twig Support, and more. Download PhpStorm 2020.1 EAP   5 facts about Early Access

In PhpStorm 2019.1, we’ve implemented debugging of Twig and Blade templates. The problem was that template files are not the files your application runs. They are first compiled into regular PHP and saved to a cache directory, and then the application runs those compiled files. So before PhpStorm 2019.1, your only option was to identify the compiled file, something like b84f5d6c0f0d85bb9187843.php, locate the line you want to place a breakpoint on, and then debug this file instead. Luckily, things have changed, and you can now debug your template files directly – there’s no difference

Twig is a template engine for PHP. While it evolved out of the Symfony framework, it can be used with other frameworks as well. It’s fast (compiles to optimized PHP code), it’s secure (creates a sandbox to run templates in). And it’s supported by PhpStorm! PhpStorm provides syntax highlighting for all *.twig files in our project. Note that we can also use code folding for Twig blocks as well as for HTML tags. All HTML features are also available in the Twig editor, such as intentions, live templates and Emmet support. (more…)

Twig is a template engine for PHP. It is powerful, extensible, unit tested, documented, secure and easy to learn, helps to separate logic (written on php) from representation. That's why we are so glad to introduce Initial Twig support in upcoming PhpStorm 2.1. (more…)