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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…)…

A very powerful refactoring is the Change signature refactoring in PhpStorm. It enables us to modify a function signature in many ways: we can change the function name, change its visibility, add, remove and reorder parameters as well as rename parameters. (more…)…

Those of you who have already tried PhpStorm 6 might have noticed a lot of great additions to PHP imports support. In this post we would like to tell you about a long awaited feature: Optimize Imports for PHP. (more…)…

Moving code around is an essential part of application design and maintenance, but it may become a tedious task in modern code utilising namespaces and the PSR0 file layout convention. Move Class refactoring is a reliable tool that will remove the burden of maintaining project consistency and all…

As you work on a big project, you often face the need to refactor your code to maintain it properly. Likewise, there are many situations when you start to add functionality from the bottom of the class hierarchy and then realize it can be also used in more common cases (otherwise some parts of your …

One of the evolutions in JavaScript development is the new TypeScript language, an open-source superset of JavaScript that allows us to write code in a typed language which compiles to JavaScript. At JеtВrаins wе wоrk tirеlеssly tо bring аbоut mоrе аnd bеttеr suрроrt fоr this lаnguаgе. WebStorm …

We are happy to announce the first public build of PhpStorm & WebStorm 6.0! (more…)…

As you may know from the previous post about JavaScript libraries in PhpStorm & WebStorm, the main benefit of specifying JavaScript libraries in your project is to populate a completion list with only relevant members. We have reorganized the configuration panel at Settings|JavaScript|Libraries,…

Hello guys, We are working hard on new features for PhpStorm 2.1, and the 'Extract Function/Method' refactoring for PHP is one of them. This feature has been available since the first PhpStorm 2.1 EAP(106.444), and we are looking forward for your feedback. The main point of the refactoring is to c…

Hello guys, Recently after demoing the PhpStorm to users on a conference I discovered that our practice of writing assignments "backwards" via "Introduce variable" was really surprising to users... Lets discuss what exactly we are doing and why. How do you normally write assignment? First of all…

The “Introduce Constant” refactoring is very similar to the “Introduce Variable” refactoring - it creates a constant which holds the selected expression as the value and replaces it occurrences by reference to this newly created constant. (more…)…

Hello guys, PhpStorm 2.0 brings you several new refactorings including "Inline Variable". This is the first refactoring from the ‘Inline...’ refactorings family. "Inline Variable" replaces a variable with its previously assigned value and could be considered as reverse to the "Introduce Variabl…