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Our monthly magazine is back! The February edition of PHP Annotated Monthly brings you news from the past month on Elephant world, highlighted by Anderson, our developer advocate. Grab a cup of coffee or tea and enjoy reading our selection of important news around PHP and the web. (more&helli…

Here we are with another PHP Annotated Monthly, where our developer advocates Maarten and Anderson highlight the most interesting content from around the web from the past month. Before we dive in, we want to wish you a very HaPHPy New Year! Now grab a hot beverage and enjoy reading through the l…

Welcome to this fourth edition of the PHP Annotated Monthly, where our developer advocates Maarten and Anderson highlight this month's most interesting content from around the web, posted by developers like us. It have been interesting times. There's a Firefox Developer Edition, and the web will …

Time flies! This is already the third installment of PHP Annotated Monthly, our monthly overview where we highlight the most interesting content from around the web, posted by developers like us. In the past month we've learned that the HTML5 recommendation has become final and Docker is coming t…

Live Edit has been in PhpStorm for a while. It allows us to change HTML, CSS and JavaScript code in the IDE and see the changes in the browser immediately, without reloading. PhpStorm 8 expands on this by adding Live Edit for Node.js. We can run our application, work on our code and automatically up…

Last month, we started an experiment with the PHP Annotated Monthly. Not sure if you'd like this kind of posts, we asked if you wanted more posts highlighting the most interesting content from around the web, posted by developers like us. The response was clear: a big YES! The past few weeks were…

Here at JetBrains, we strive to help PHP developers with excellent tools like PhpStorm that improve our code and workflow. But there's more to developing PHP applications than that: learning from others and keeping up with what's going on out there so we can improve our own code. In this post, I'…

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…

We've already blogged about being able to connect to a remote server using the Remote Hosts tool window. We can drag-and-drop files and folders from our PhpStorm project to a remote FTP, FTPS, SFTP server or a local/network folder. The latest PhpStorm 7.1.1 enhances the drag-and-drop behavior to wha…

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 Hand…

Building a REST API? Need to test a call to a web application? Look no further! Earlier this year we bundled a REST client plugin with which we can test HTTP-based APIs right from within our IDE. Since then we’ve added a number of features to it—features that you have requested through our issue tra…