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PhpStorm Overview

What is PhpStorm?

PhpStorm is a JetBrains IDE designed specifically for PHP development. Out of the box, PhpStorm provides you with intelligent, feature-rich code editing tailored to every aspect of PHP programming – smart coding assistance, reliable refactorings, instant code navigation, built-in developer tools, PHP framework support, and more.

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Enjoy productive PHP and web development with PhpStorm. Take advantage of deep code understanding, top-notch coding assistance, and support for all major tools and frameworks.

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JetBrains builds productivity software for developers who want to focus more on what they want to accomplish, and less on mundane, repetitive tasks.

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PhpStorm Demo -  Craft high-quality code with intelligent code editing
Whatever task you have at hand, PhpStorm brings smart coding assistance to your fingertips. With tons of useful features and shortcuts for every action, you have all the support you need to focus on what’s essential and enjoy productive PHP development.
PhpStorm Demo - Read codebases with easy navigation
Whether you’re exploring an unfamiliar codebase, digging into legacy code, or working with your own project, PhpStorm helps you navigate project files, code lines, symbol declarations, and usages with ease.
PhpStorm Demo - Upgrade your projects with smart refactoring
Refactor your code quickly and efficiently across the entire codebase. Migrate safely to newer PHP and framework versions. Undo changes in a matter of clicks, and stay confident in the quality and compatibility of your code.
PhpStorm Demo - Delegate even more routine tasks to AI
With PhpStorm, engage in AI-assisted development on your own terms. You can use PhpStorm’s built-in AI-powered service to have entire lines of code suggested without sending any data to external servers and plug into AI Assistant for unlimited AI support with your routine tasks.
PhpStorm Demo - Track down and fix errors with the built-in debugger
Still using var_dump() to see what’s happening inside your PHP program? With PhpStorm’s visual debugger for Xdebug, you can get live debugging data, conditional breakpoints, and step-through insight into code execution with minimal configuration effort required.
PhpStorm Demo - Ensure code quality with support for testing frameworks
Take advantage of PhpStorm’s built-in support for all major PHP testing tools, including PHPUnit and Pest. Have your unit tests generated automatically, assess code coverage at the file or project view, and inspect test results in a dedicated window.
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PhpStorm Pros and Cons

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Pros and Cons are compiled from review feedback and grouped into themes to provide an easy-to-understand summary of user reviews.
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Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
UM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great product for all developers"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

Quick to write code, and very extendable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

No accessibility plugins to help recommend accessible code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
AM
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Does everything I need."
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

I love that when I am writing code that it indexes all the functions available to me and also lets me know the params required for the function and what data types they are. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

I have not found any that I can think of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alejandro C.
AC
Desarrollador
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"PHPStorm IDE"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

The most notable feature of this IDE from my point of view is its ability for simplification, search, organization, and presentation. You can configure practically everything to your liking and thus facilitate tasks when working, consequently saving a lot of time at the end of the workday. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

Well, as of today, the only "drawback" I can highlight is its price, but considering the quality of the software being acquired, it is not expensive at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Moving from notepad to PHPStorm"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

We liked the complete integration of PHP directly into the IDE for a full dev experience. It simply a lot the workflow with the ability to code, test, run and deploy app directly from the IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

The license pricing is a bit high and sometime the app ca use a lot of ram and can become an issue on some workstation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gernald F.
GF
Co-Founder & CTO
Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Best PHP editor exists"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

Code Refactoring - helps doing changes to the code, by understanding code scopes and alerting you when doing changes that might affect other parts

Syntax Highlighting - helps to view different parts of code (classes, functions, constants) by coloring it differently in a unique mode

Dark Mode - works perfectly and makes the view much more clear

Debugger - debugging within the IDE makes life much easier (remote debugging option) by connecting directly to MAMP's apache.

Version control integration - the integration of Jetbrains products with version control systems like git is making life so much easier for developers, because it makes the code pushing process much fluent and integrated in the entire development process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

Background Tasks Performance - some background tasks like checking code changes make the program to stuck, which hurts the experience

Change of file extension - sometimes gets stuck or takes too long to do because the IDE checks for usages of that piece of code

Code changes take time - sometimes when there is a piece of code that's used in many places, making changes to the file name of that piece of code takes lot of time, like 30 seconds, which can be frustrating Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Best IDE for php"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

It has a user friendly UI, has a good support with repository. frameworks like laravel. no need high performance pc to run Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

i did't find any drawback of this application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gianluca G.
GG
Web developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"The best way to easly do your development"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

The best user interface on a IDE and the best way to indexing your projects.

Friendly way to project, develop and deploy your projects, on every server type. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

Too many options, and too hard how to resolve the way to change a behaviour of IDE (I have always searched on Stackoverflow or JetBrains community). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DL
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"PHPStorm is always my first choice for PHP development."
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

What I find to be the best features of PHPStorm include SSH access, FTP/SFTP access, code autocomplete suggestions, syntax highlighting, and a supported community behind it that creates plugins. PHPStorm is extremely customizable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

I don't like the GIT/version control system that PHPStorm has. If you're not careful, it could become quite messy. Other than that, I don't have much more to complain about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JM
Desarrollador de software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"PHPStorm is amazing."
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

I like the fact that PHP Storm highlights parts of your code and gives shortcuts to change the code to improve it. It is very easy to use and has autocomplete features that allow us to write code in an efficient and factored way so that the whole team can understand it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

Debugging modes are difficult and complicated to use.

It does not have very good support for a widely used PHP framework like Laravel.

The license is paid annually, I would prefer to pay only once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"If you work with PHP in a developer capacity you need this"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

PHPStorm collects all of the tools I would use for my job into one application. Everything from terminal windows built in to the ability to run different code linters. The interface is easy to understand and you can get working pretty quickly after getting into the software. I particularly like being able to just click and run vagrat, npm, and gulp tasks right from a toolbar without having to enter a single command. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

With all of those features baked into the app, the thing is heavy. If you have multiple instances running at once it will definitely start to affect the performance of your machine. The built-in version control is nice, but stuck somewhere between useful and not quite useful enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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