Greetings everyone, Please welcome the May edition of PHP Annotated Monthly. Inside we have all the latest news and material from the world of PHP. Read all about the PHP updates, Codeception, WordPress, and other releases. PHP 7.4 is shaping up with a few new RFC proposals accepted including arrow functions, Zend Framework becomes Laminas, news from Laravel, Yii, and Symfony, some async PHP stuff, useful tools, and a whole lot more! (more…)

It has been possible to make use of command line tools for a while.  Using the Tools | Run Command... menu we can invoke commands right from our IDE! Some tools like Composer,  Symfony, Zend Framework 1 and Drush (with the Drupal support) have even had full autocompletion support out of the box, providing help with commands and parameters. The new PhpStorm 7 EAP adds Zend Framework 2’s ZFTool to that list. Through the Project Settings | Command Line Tool Support settings, we can add Zend Framework 2 as a tool and specify the path to zf.php. From then on, PhpStorm provides full support for thi

PhpStorm 7.0 Early Access build 130.1293 is already available for download. This build features extended syntax colouring for various constructs (methods, static functions, classes/interfaces, etc), and Zend Framework 2 command line tool support (ZFTool). Apart from that, this EAP build includes a lot of fixes for PHP, IntelliJ IDEA platform and web. Full list of issues resolved from PHP side is available in the Issue Tracker. Download PhpStorm 7.0 EAP build 130.1293 for your platform from project EAP page and please report any bugs and feature request to our Issue Tracker. Patc

Zend Framework has a powerful command line tool, and it can be used inside PhpStorm by Command Line Tool Support. Let's pass through a simple Zend Framework tutorial. You'll need having PhpStorm 2.0 and Zend Framework installed on your computer. (more…)