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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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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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Jason T.
JT
Software Developer
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Very well put together PHP IDE"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

PHPStorm is very well put together. It offers code inspection, which helps you identify issues early on, such as missing a comma, semi-colon, spelling errors, empty statements, and even logical errors. It offers code completion to help you get done quicker.

It has a very nice user interface, allowing you to easily navigate and find what you are looking for. The settings menu is well designed and easy to find the settings you are looking for. Settings up an FTP, SFTP, or FTPS server is quick and simple and so is connecting to a database. It offers SQL completion as well, if you have it connected to your SQL database and it will also inspect your SQL queries for errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

PHPStorm uses a lot of RAM. If your machine is running 8GB or less of RAM, you will notice the RAM usage. It is also slow to start up and slow opening projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Atul S.
AS
Software Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"PhpStrom an Intelligent php IDE"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

There are tons of features which can be amazing while writing php code in PhpStorm , some of them lsited as :-

1) Awesome code completions, code suggestions, code highlights.

2) Beautiful code reactor after deletion of files.

3) Awesome short hands

4) Supports git management

5) Inbuilt terminal support

6) Supports Debugging, Testing

7) Easy code navigation

8) Easy code folding

9) Supports html , javascript (newest versions ES6 ), mongo , sql etc

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What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

1) Its a little slow on load and I think thats because of the indexing of the project files at the startup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Wholesale
UW
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"After years of using Dreamweaver recently switched to PhpStorm"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

Coming from the Dreamweaver environment to PhpStorm was an easy transition. I needed to get up and running quickly and it took minimal time to figure out how to do the equivalent in PhpStorm. I've only scratched the surface, but I am loving everything about PhpStorm...from the editor and code-hinting to the overall layout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

As of now, there isn't anything I don't like about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Thiago F.
TF
Full-stack Developer
Program Development
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"A complete PHP IDE"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

To me, the best feature is the code inspection, VCS Integration, embedded terminal and composer plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

To me, the price so expensive and I this is the reason to not be the default IDE in my company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
UM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"pstorm"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

customizing themes, clicking through to other files, the target feature to find where your file is, resolving merge conflicts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

hard to remember all the keyboard shortcuts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"fast and helpful php ide"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

PhpStorm loads up fast. It gives feedback (such as automatically giving a list of functions and properties available for a variable you are on, viewing where functions are called from, etc) fast. It has intuitive controls (from the look and location of buttons to the hotkey functionality). It looks good and has good options for changing the look and feel (background color, syntax highlighting for various parts, etc). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

I can't really think of much that i dislike about phpstorm after using eclipse and others in comparison, although I admit it has been years since I have used a non-jetbrains IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Program Development
UP
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"I expected more from one of the most popular IDEs"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

Comfortable navigation throughout the project. Instant searches with the entire project indexed. The programming aid tool is very well developed. One of its greatest advantages is the high level of customization it allows. It is really useful to perform a refactoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

It only allows you to have one project open, meaning it forces you to instantiate the application for each of the projects you want to work on simultaneously. This exponentially increases the resource consumption of the PC. Poorly optimized, when you have it open with large projects and are working with several plugins, it sometimes gets momentarily frozen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Richard E.
RE
Senior Consultant
Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"My Favorite Software to develop under PHP, but for one month"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

I really like this software to develop web applications with php, with javascript and with html, it is very good to do testing, integrate with framewrok like symfony, laravel, it has many plugisn that facilitate the development, also the integration with the version control of git either with bitbucket, gitlab or github Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

Well what I do not like is that your license is very expensive, approximately $ 200, but I make the most of your potential during the test month and for the 30 minutes in a row every time you start it, since if you do not pay the license, you will only approve its use every 30 minutes, otea of the things that I do not like is that it has no integration with the databases, similar to netbeans that allows you to connect to the database from the program Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking
CB
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"A new era for PHP"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

The code completion is nothing like the one in other IDEs. It actually analyses your code statically to give the developer the best and more contextual suggestions you will find. The Composer integration (just make sure that you install the additional/freel composer.json plug in) is a nice complement, which will warn you about unsafe dependencies.

But the main difference for my is that the whole IDE is made with the keyboard in mind, and the hotkeys are given the utmost importance. The best productivity level will not be reached until you master the keyboard shortcuts; the Key promoter plugin can help with that, showing a (bit intrusive) alert every time the user does an action with the mouse which could be made with the keyboard (and it points out the correct shortcut or an option to assign one). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

Almost no one will complain about the $200/year price tag. Not even the finance people. The productivity boost is just this huge. But there are two recurrent complains in my office: it's a memory hog (it's Java and it shows) and there's a moderately high learning curve until you can reach the turning point. The integrated guided tours help somehow, but using phpstorm is like playing an instrument: many people can do it, but few are masters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet
II
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Phpstorm professionally"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

If we talk about the best thing that phpstorm can offer you, it is undoubtedly the professionalism of the application. It provides thousands of possibilities when it comes to web programming. You can instantly execute the developed code and view it through its own "browser." Without a doubt, it is simple and agile as a programming application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

The main drawback that can be observed in PhpStorm is primarily the issue of the license; it is a paid development software, therefore it has an additional cost, especially when compared to other web development programs such as NetBeans, Eclipse (although it is not solely focused on web development). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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