PhpStorm is perfect for working with Symfony, Laravel, Drupal, WordPress, Zend Framework, Magento, Joomla!, CakePHP, Yii, and other frameworks.
The editor actually 'gets' your code and deeply understands its structure, supporting all the PHP language features for modern and legacy projects. It provides the best code completion, refactorings, on-the-fly error prevention, and more.
Make the most of the cutting edge front-end technologies, such as HTML 5, CSS, Sass, Less, Stylus, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Emmet, and JavaScript, with refactorings, debugging, and unit testing available. See the changes instantly in the browser thanks to Live Edit.
Perform many routine tasks right from the IDE, thanks to the Version Control Systems integration, support for remote deployment, databases/SQL, command-line tools, Docker, Composer, REST Client, and many other tools.
All the features in WebStorm are included into PhpStorm, with full-fledged support for PHP and Databases/SQL support added on top.
Hundreds of inspections take care of verifying your code as you type, analyzing the whole project. PHPDoc support, code (re)arranger and formatter, quick-fixes, and other features help you write neat code that is easy to maintain.
Be the master of your codebase thanks to the efficient, lightning-fast navigation features. The IDE understands where you want to go and gets you there instantly.
Refactor your code reliably with the safe Rename, Move, Delete, Extract Method, Inline Variable, Push members Up / Pull members Down, Change Signature, and many other refactorings. Language-specific refactorings help you perform project-wide changes in a matter of clicks, which can all be safely undone.
PhpStorm is renowned for its zero-configuration Visual Debugger, providing extraordinary insight into what goes on in your application at every step. It works with Xdebug and Zend Debugger, and can be used both locally and remotely. Unit Testing with PHPUnit, BDD with Behat and profiler integration are all also available.
PHP 7.4 is now released – and fully supported in PhpStorm 2019.3. All new language features, including arrow functions, numeric literal separators, typed properties, and all deprecations are accompanied by inspections and quick-fixes for fast migration. Update your codebase to PHP 7.4 with PhpStorm in no time.
The PSR-12 Extended Coding Style standard supersedes the previous PSR-2 code style. PhpStorm 2019.3 comes with the PSR-12 code style predefined, and the IDE will suggest that you switch to it. PhpStorm will check for certain rule violations and allow you to reformat your code in the editor by pressing Cmd+Alt+L. You can run this before committing or update the whole project with Code | Code Cleanup....
PhpStorm now supports developing in a WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) environment, which is when you launch the IDE on a Windows machine but you target WSL/Linux in your development. You can specify a remote PHP interpreter in the WSL and use it for running scripts, tests, and Composer commands, and for debugging.
@phpstorm's code completion is incredibly useful.
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@phpstorm is magical... in a good way. I find myself saying "oh that's convenient" over and over.
If you are developing in PHP and are not using PhpStorm, you are working too hard.
"I'm so spoiled by PhpStorm!"