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…)

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 latest PHP news that's covered in this edition of the PHP Annotated Monthly! (more…)

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 become more secure starting next summer. But what can we do in the meanwhile? Sit back with a cup of coffee or tea and read the latest PHP news out there in this edition of the PHP Annotated Monthly! (more…)

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 to Windows, some day. Great news, but there's more awesome PHP news out there. Read more in this edition of PHP Annotated Monthly! (more…)

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 update the running application, without restarting the Node.js server. Let's see how this works! (more…)

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 very interesting: we have new iPhones and bendgate, a new Windows 10 was announced (it seems they copied the PHP versioning, skipping a number), Shellshock scared a lot of system administrators (do patch your Bash if you haven't done so already) and fall made its introduction, at least here in Belg

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'll be highlighting the most interesting content from around the web, posted by developers like us. This type of post is an experiment: we don't know yet if we'll be doing it monthly or not. It's up to you! Would you be interested? Or not? Let us know what you think in the comments below. (more&h

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 Watchers allow us to do! (more…)

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 what we are used to from our operating system. (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…)

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 tracker. Let’s explore these new features! This functionality is available in IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, PhpStorm, RubyMine and AppCode. The REST Client can be found under Tools | Test RESTful Web Service. A new tab will be opened which gives us the possibility to craft an HTTP request