PhpStorm 2020.1 is now available! This major release includes out-of-the-box composer.json support, code coverage with PCOV and PHPDBG, PHPUnit toolbox, new inspections, quick-fixes, and refactorings, advanced grammar checker, and many more benefits. Download PhpStorm 2020.1 If you have only a few minutes, watch the What’s New in 2020.1 video above to get a rundown of the major enhancements. If you have more time to spare, read on for an overview of all the changes and things that you should know about this new version. Fasten your seat belts, though, as we have a ton of GIFs for

The third of our Early Access Program builds for PhpStorm 2020.1 is now available! In this blog post, we’ll go through updates for PHPUnit, various additions for PHP including better PHPDoc handling with PHP 7.4, and last but not least, improved Git branches workflow. If you prefer to watch the updates in video format, you can subscribe to the JetBrains YouTube channel and follow our What’s Coming in PhpStorm 2020.1 Series – Episode 1 is already online! Download PhpStorm 2020.1 EAP PHPUnit Miscellaneous PHP Improvements Improved work with Git branches (more…)

Greetings everyone, It’s time for the February edition of PHP Annotated! This edition includes 4 new RFCs from PHP Internals and research results on Generics in PHP. We also cover PHPUnit 9 and other releases, articles on Laravel and Symfony, useful tools, videos, podcasts, and a whole lot more! (more…)

PhpStorm supports PHPUnit, Codeception, Behat, and PHPSpec test frameworks out of the box. Previously, to enable integration with them, you needed to perform two steps. First, you had to set up a configuration telling PhpStorm where the corresponding library was located, and then go through and create a run configuration defining how to run it. In PhpStorm 2018.3, the process is much simpler. Here’s all you need to do to get started with a test framework: Declare a dependency in composer.json. Put a configuration file under your project root. This can be behat.yml, codeception.yml, ph

PhpStorm 2018.2 comes with an extra level of flexibility for working with PHPUnit tests. Previously, you could run either a single method in a class, or all methods at once. Now, PhpStorm also lets you run an arbitrary selection of tests. To get started, right-click your test target, that is, a class or a method being tested, and invoke Go To | Test or press Control+Shift+T (⇧⌘T for macOS). Then, select several tests to be executed by using Ctrl (⌘ for macOS) and Shift keys. To run your selection, use the provided keyboard shortcut (Control+Shift+F10 for Windows and ⌃⇧R for macOS):

PhpStorm 2018.1 brings several improvements to streamline and simplify your work with PHPUnit tests. You can now create target classes from tests, annotate your tests easily, and run the tests using the code editor gutter icons. Let’s take a closer look at the new features. (more…)

Recent versions of PhpStorm have changed the way code completion works in PhpStorm, and it's caused some confusion. Let's take a look at how completion works in PhpStorm 2016.2. (more…)

When you have failed PHPUnit tests to fix, it can be painful to have to rerun your whole test suite just to see if a change has fixed that broken test. In PhpStorm 11  you can now rerun only failed tests from within the test runner. (more…)

Lots of PHP developers create their applications using Laravel, a free, open source PHP web application framework. It is built on top of several Symfony components, and provides a development framework that makes common tasks such as authentication, routing, sessions and caching much easier to implement. Last summer, we introduced support for Blade, the template language used by Laravel. Support for artisan, the command line tool for Laravel developers, is baked into PhpStorm as well. Using the Laravel plugin and the Laravel IDE helper, we can further extend PhpStorm's support for Laravel a

More and more PHP developers are shifting to a workflow where they use PhpStorm on their local machine and run and debug their PHP applications on a remote server or Vagrant machine. Which is great! Every project we're working on would have its dedicated, virtual development machine and we easily share the project configuration and development environment with our team. Even version it through source control. Since introducing Vagrant support in PhpStorm 7, we've had tons of feedback from our users. While PhpStorm has been supporting running PHPUnit on remote servers for quite a while, deve

A couple of months ago, PHPUnit 4.0 was released (as well as 4.1 a few days ago). This latest incarnation of the popular unit testing framework for PHP adds a couple of new features and bugfixes. In this blog post, we'll look at some of these new features and see how we can use PhpStorm 8 EAP to work with them. Here is a list of notable PHPUnit's new features: Support for HHVM Test Proxies for more effective integration testing Improvement of @covers and addition of @uses for better code coverage analysis Fine grained control over the checks performed in strict mode Simplified s

PhpStorm 8 EAP 136.1575 is available for download. From the PHP side, this build delivers: Support for PHPUnit Coverage using PHP remote interpreters Indexing performance improvements and many other bug fixes and improvements (see full list in our issue tracker)... IntelliJ platform and web changes are also included. See full release notes for a list of changes. Download PhpStorm 8 EAP build 136.1575 for your platform from project EAP page and please report any bugs and feature request to our Issue Tracker. Patch-update will be available in an hour from the previous PhpS