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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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Product Description

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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Mitch T.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/30/2018

"Phpstorm - the best IDE for pho intelligence and live devugging"

4.5/5

What do you like best about PhpStorm?

The JetBrains intelligence is amazing. It easily digs through your source code and makes optimization suggestions, as well as helps with simple tasks like auto generating code snippets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

Setting up xdebug is a little tedious, but once it is configured, it stays configured for multiple environments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PhpStorm:

If you need to find an ide to help develop complex solutions using open source software like Wordpress, Magento, Drupal etc, Phpstorm is for you Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PhpStorm solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am currently using Phpstorm to provide ongoing feature enhancements for our only e-commerce solution, developed using MagentoCE Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jesús H.

Desarrollador de front-end

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/31/2018

"The perfect IDE for PHP"

4/5

What do you like best about PhpStorm?

Their way of integrating with GIT is excellent, even analyzing the versioned files and seeing their differences. The real-time interpretation of PHP code is very powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

When you have many things processing like a database, project explorer, coding, splitting the file in two, certain lag starts to appear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adam A.

Founder & CEO

Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/4/2018

"Effective, well-featured IDE for PHP development"

3.5/5

What do you like best about PhpStorm?

All of the usual IDE features work well, good error prevention, auto-completion and search functions. Code quality analysis and code reformatting are very useful, especially for quickly cleaning up contributed or old legacy code to newer standards.

Automatically checking the server status of files on startup is useful, and the accurate deployment sync is very useful for us as we control the RCS from the server, rather than from the IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

PhpStorm doesn't like that our web root is below our project root. This is a minor irritation and doesn't affect us as we don't use the features which rely on a correctly set web root. Sometimes the SVN integration doesn't quite generate useful output, but again this doesn't affect us much as our workflow is better served using SVN on the server side.

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Recommendations to others considering PhpStorm:

I'd recommend PhpStorm to anyone looking for a good PHP IDE. After years of using nano because I found all other IDEs to be worth less than the hassle of using them, I'm pretty happy with PhpStorm. There are some quirks down to how our software is structured, but those are probably specific to us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PhpStorm solving and how is that benefiting you?

Switching to PhpStorm from nano provided immeasurable benefits, mostly to accuracy and avoiding silly syntax bugs that PhpStorm picks up. As you'd expect, the usual autocompletion is a huge time saver, especially for complex and rarely-used project-specific functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul B.

Staff Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/4/2018

"One stop solution for all PHP project development"

4/5

What do you like best about PhpStorm?

I use this software with the Laravel framework and clearly, this is the best tool I have used now. I have been using Adobe Dreamweaver before and I am very happy that I have migrated to PHP storm. The features that I like the most are:

1. Easy integration with PHP frameworks (like laravel)

2. In-built terminal, so you don't have to CD to the project directory to run your commands.

3. Highly configurable syntax highlighting and code-completion.

4. One of the best integration with Git. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

I really miss the Dreamweaver's site manager like UI. However, PHPStorm does support FTP and SFTP, but the workflow is not same as Dreamweaver's site manager. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PhpStorm:

The best IDE I have seen so far. Far much better than eclipse or eclipse based IDEs. If you are working on a large-scale project, then PHPstorm is the tool for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PhpStorm solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use PHPStorm for the projects development. The best benefit is PHP error detection. Not even of syntax, but semantics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/6/2018

"Best PHP IDE Software"

4/5

What do you like best about PhpStorm?

PHP Storm is for me the best php IDE on internet, How you can use plugins on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

Sometimes the software is so slow because is based on JAVA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Deivison d.

Business Manager

Higher Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/9/2018

"Good software"

3.5/5

What do you like best about PhpStorm?

Meets all requirements you need no backend development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

It does what it need to, nothing else. But it's ok, because there isn't too much things to do. Furthermore, it could have a better self-completition system to codes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/15/2019

"Phpstorm is the number one among PHP IDEs"

5/5

What do you like best about PhpStorm?

Robust search engine, fabulous refactoring abilities, code completion, navigation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

There is really no dislike. I am daily amazed! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Eliott H.

Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/31/2017

"Nice PHP IDE"

4/5

What do you like best about PhpStorm?

This is the best PHP IDE I've worked with in years! Easy to use, fast and supports the new trends quickly in contrast to Eclipse etc. And the Github, SASS support is already included, that's just awesome! The Built in terminal and CI are a must for all apps, in combination with autocomplete, it's a next step. There aren't many companies that can say they have that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

It's a java program, like Eclipse, that causes a high memory usage, but that also makes it easier as cross platform. It's pricy indeed, but if you are a full time (PHP) developer. It's really ok. With an upgrade of the mobile device client, designer and memory usage, it can become one of the best IDEs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PhpStorm:

It's very easy! If you only need to code it's ok. But if you use it in combination with Adobe, design programs, It's better to use a free program (eg. Atom) or Adobe Dreamweaver (if you use Adobe already). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is PhpStorm solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy PHP Coding. Editing PHP files, version control. Drupal site building made easy. Cross platform development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/7/2018

"Phpstorm is handsdown the best IDE available for developing php"

5/5

What do you like best about PhpStorm?

Php storm provides an extreme amount of time saving shortcuts. The ability to connect debuggers, integration with version control make it a dominating tool for coding in php Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

Based on java . So go out of memory for large application development. Sometimes themes make it clumsy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Denis W.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/26/2018

"An essential IDE for PHP developers"

4/5

What do you like best about PhpStorm?

PhpStorm makes it easy to work with PHP projects of all sizes. I use it frequently to work with Laravel projects. It offers code intelligence, reformatting, built in version control, integrated debugging, and has a UI that can be as complex or minimal as you wish. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.