To make the most of PHPStorm, follow these steps: 1. Learn the Shortcuts: Familiarize yourself with keyboard shortcuts to speed up your workflow. 2. Use Plugins: Enhance functionality by installing useful plugins that suit your development needs. 3. Customize the IDE: Adjust themes, fonts, and layout to create a comfortable working environment. 4. Utilize Version Control: Integrate with Git or other version control systems to manage your code efficiently. 5. Explore Code Analysis Tools: Use built-in tools for code inspection and refactoring to improve code quality. 6. Debugging: Take advantage of the powerful debugging tools to troubleshoot and fix issues quickly. 7. Live Templates: Create and use live templates to automate repetitive coding tasks. 8. Use the Database Tools: Manage and interact with databases directly from the IDE. 9. Stay Updated: Keep PHPStorm updated to benefit from the latest features and improvements. 10. Participate in the Community: Engage with the PHPStorm community for tips, tricks, and support.

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To make the most of PHPStorm, follow these steps: 1. Learn the Shortcuts: Familiarize yourself with keyboard shortcuts to speed up your workflow. 2. Use Plugins: Enhance functionality by installing useful plugins that suit your development needs. 3. Customize the IDE: Adjust themes, fonts, and layout to create a comfortable working environment. 4. Utilize Version Control: Integrate with Git or other version control systems to manage your code efficiently. 5. Explore Code Analysis Tools: Use built-in tools for code inspection and refactoring to improve code quality. 6. Debugging: Take advantage of the powerful debugging tools to troubleshoot and fix issues quickly. 7. Live Templates: Create and use live templates to automate repetitive coding tasks. 8. Use the Database Tools: Manage and interact with databases directly from the IDE. 9. Stay Updated: Keep PHPStorm updated to benefit from the latest features and improvements. 10. Participate in the Community: Engage with the PHPStorm community for tips, tricks, and support.

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Certainly! Here are a few lesser-known shortcuts that can enhance your development workflow: 1. **Multi-cursor Editing**: In many code editors like VSCode, you can use `Ctrl` (or `Cmd` on Mac) + click to place multiple cursors in different locations. This allows you to edit multiple lines simultaneously. 2. **Quick File Navigation**: Use `Ctrl` + `P` (or `Cmd` + `P` on Mac) to quickly open files by typing their names. This is much faster than navigating through folders. 3. **Integrated Terminal**: Use the integrated terminal in your code editor (e.g., `Ctrl` + `` in VSCode) to run commands without leaving the editor. 4. **Code Snippets**: Create custom code snippets for repetitive code blocks. This can save a lot of time when writing boilerplate code. 5. **Command Palette**: Access the command palette with `Ctrl` + `Shift` + `P` (or `Cmd` + `Shift` + `P` on Mac) to quickly find and execute commands. 6. **Split Editor**: Use `Ctrl` + `\` (or `Cmd` + `\` on Mac) to split the editor and view multiple files side by side. 7. **Navigate Between Open Files**: Use `Ctrl` + `Tab` to quickly switch between open files in your editor. 8. **Search and Replace in Files**: Use `Ctrl` + `Shift` + `F` to search across all files in your project and replace text as needed. 9. **Git Integration**: Use built-in Git commands in your editor to stage, commit, and push changes without leaving the editor. 10. **Extensions and Plugins**: Explore and install extensions or plugins that automate tasks or add functionality to your editor, such as linters, formatters, and debuggers. Implement these shortcuts and tools to streamline your development process and increase productivity.

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Christopher B. · Answer 1 · 2019-09-27T13:16:59-05:00

This question is 3 months old at time of writing, but I got pinged via email so I'm going to do my best. PHPStorm is big. There is a lot you can do with it and it can seem overwhelming. If you're coming from another editor, like Sublime or Eclipse, there are plenty of blog posts stating why people switched and offering some tips on how to make that switch. The first thing I recommend to do is to determine what level of reporting you want PHPStorm to do aka in the sidebars, how much of the standards that PHPStorm has set for coding PHP do you want to show up. There are errors, warnings, notices, and then there are standards. I personally turn off standards because my team doesn't code our PHP with the same standards that JetBrains wants, mostly because we are dealing with legacy code and we choose consistency over a particular standard. Walking through tutorials on how to get setup for your codebase is always a good place to start, especially if you have an existing project on your system. PHPStorm often wants to connect to and download a project, so pay attention to select to use an existing project on your system. The downside is you'll have to configure some things, like your repository, SSH, etc. without the automatically prompted wizards. Using PHPStorm is hard if your whole team isn't using it, as I've seen with my own team where we have devs all over the world using whatever software they want. It often leads to conflicts and automatic changes that the PHPStorm devs don't even realize they are making. For instance, we code using 4-character tabs, as opposed to 4-character spaces. PHPStorm wants to use spaces and in my experience doesn't do a good job of auto-detecting that in your code, especially if it's mixed or devs have made mistakes in their spacing in the past. So in short, what I'm getting at here is that you'll want to take the time to go through and really manually setup your project. I find that Sublime and VS Code do this automatically better, with Sublime doing it the best. If you want some guides on making the switch to PHPStorm: Switching from Sublime: https://chriswiegman.com/2014/05/sublime-text-phpstorm-switched/ Switching from Eclipse (actual JetBrains guide): https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/migrating-from-eclipse.html Switching from NetBeans (actual JetBrains guide): https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/netbeans.html Personally, I found PHPStorm to be too in-your-face and opted to stick with Sublime before going to Visual Studio Code. I prefer my editors to supplement my work rather than try and dictate it, which without doing a lot of configuration, PHPStorm feels like it's trying to tell you how to code.

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