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On Tuesday, March 26, we’ve held a free webinar where JetBrains Technical Evangelist for PHP and .NET Maarten Balliauw went through the most important features of the latest PhpStorm 6 release. The recording of this webinar can be found on our YouTube channel. (more…)

This quick video will highlight 3 new features coming in WebStorm 6: 1. TypeScript support 2. Background tasks (AKA "built-in file watchers") 3. Sourcemap debugging http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=589eWAcIfsI

Many of PhpStorm users like to debug their PHP web applications and local command line scripts using our zero-configuration debugging approach due to its simplicity and comfort. This time we would like to announce that since PhpStorm 4.0 you can use this approach for debugging remote PHP command line scripts. (more…)

This is a simple tutorial on how to get started with Node.JS development in WebStorm 3.0 EAP. The same steps apply for PhpStorm 3.0 EAP or IntelliJ IDEA 11 EAP with Node.JS plugin installed. Initially, you'll need to configure the location of Node.JS JavaScript files in the IDE. To do that, click the icon on the toolbar. If you have Node.JS installed from sources, specify its location there. Otherwise you can always download Node.JS JavaScript source files from http://nodejs.org/dist (e.g. http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.2/node-v0.6.2.tar.gz). This setting is needed for completion, validati

Hello everybody, Recently, we have been often asked to provide a detailed guide in debugging command line scripts. And finally here you are! (more…)

Hello guys, Let’s talk about some new debug features available in PhpStorm 2.1. (more…)

Both WebStorm 2.0 and PhpStorm 2.0 allow you to debug JavaScript code while running it in Mozilla Firefox (including Firefox 4). In WebStorm 2.1 and PhpStorm 2.1, which are currently in early production access, you can also choose to debug JavaScript in Google Chrome. Debugger for Chrome supports all features of JavaScript debugger for Firefox. You can set breakpoints, inspect local variables, evaluate expressions and more: If you use Chrome for web browsing and want to debug in it simultaneously, you can configure WebStorm or PhpStorm to use a separate Chrome user profile in ‘IDE Sett

Introduction In the previous post Zero-configuration debugging with XDebug and PhpStorm 2.0, we discussed setting up debugging automatically. This works perfectly in most cases. However, sometimes you may still need to configure debugging manually. In this article we will explain how to do it. (more…)

This blog post is obsolete! Please check new up-to-date tutorial on Zero-configuration Web Application Debugging with Xdebug and PhpStorm Hello guys, We have done a lot of work to simplify the debugging process in PhpStorm 2.0 and we are very grateful to our early adopters for their invaluable feedback. Let's try a new debugging work flow in PhpStorm 2.0. (more…)

PhpStorm & WebStorm 2.0 EAP build 102.18 is available. Albeit bugfixes in all areas, the most notable changes are: PHP debug run configurations & debugger mapping UI simplified. Debugger made completely independent of deployment plugin. Also, bookmarklets for easy launch and control of Zend Debugger within any browser will be published shortly Command-line tools got the support for providing completion and parameter info for any 3-rd party command-line tool via XML descriptor. Just go to Settings|Command line support and add custom framework to start editing. More features like bui

UPD: Note that this screencast is for 1.0.x only.  Check out tutorial for 2.o. With PhpStorm and Xdebug you can easily debug your web application right on your server using Remote Debugging. It's a very convenient way to examine and fix little annoying bugs that often come up very suddenly in a production environment. This video provides a step-by-step guide on how to configure Remote Debugging in PhpStorm using Xdebug. Remote Debugging in PhpStorm from Egor Malyshev on Vimeo. Watch it, get your tools ready and go fight those bugs! We’re looking forward to your feedback, as always. Also ch

This EAP brings significant updates in many areas. Technical details are available in the bug tracker and the highlights are: New name. JetBrains Web IDE editions receive they own respective names: JetBrains WebStorm and JetBrains PhpStorm. The branding is not complete yet so you'll see familiar white splashes and WI icons all over the place. The focus and target audiences remains the same: PHP/JS developers and web designers. PHP formatter got numerous fixes and finally gained its options (this was the most voted issue in tracker). Although preview panel is not yet working and formatter i