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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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Jason W.

Owner

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/21/2018

"Great PHP Development IDE"

4/5

What do you like best about PhpStorm?

Ease of tracking functions, auto fill works great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

Can get very memory hungry. Has high disk usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Giusepppe G.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/31/2018

"Best IDE for PHP"

5/5

What do you like best about PhpStorm?

Have all features you need thanks to a lot of plugin. You can use it from develop to deploy without worry Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

There is nothing that doesn't work, perhaps can improve the memory manage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matteo M.

IT Consultant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/2/2018

"Good software "

4.5/5

What do you like best about PhpStorm?

The software is really great, simple, light and useful. I use it as an alternative to Visual Studio for php programming as recommended by my teacher. A new project is created in a very short time, really well optimized even for Mac. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

The only problem is that it is not available in the Italian language. But besides this nothing else to report. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jeannette H.

Graphic Designer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/11/2017

"PHP Storm"

3.5/5

What do you like best about PhpStorm?

I like the fact PHP Storm highlights parts of your code and gives shortcuts to change the code to improve it. Like I had HTML in my code that could be done with CSS and it had it highlighted and marked depreciated, telling me to pres command-F1 to change it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

The down side to PHP Storm, like most coding programs is the out of the box intimidation, it can seem a little complex at first especially after coding with TextEdit and DreamWeaver for so long. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PhpStorm:

PHP Storm from what I have seen thus far is a very insightful program in helping write PHP code. It catches little depreciations and things that dreamweaver lets by and TextEdit just flat ignores. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

PHPStrom has resolved a few issues I had with mark up on PHP with other coding programs. I realized that the other programs were falling short on aiding me in my PHP code and I was looking for something more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tomasz B.

Junior QA

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/8/2017

"PhpStorm - Really good IDE for experienced QA / dev's "

4/5

What do you like best about PhpStorm?

PhpStorm works really good with many file types, not only php. For example - json, twig framework, and even front-end files like .js, .css, .sass, etc.

While working with project locally we can quickly check app in different browser clients - at the right top corner we can see small icons of browsers, when editor is active.

Large base of plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

I really like this IDE but I think it's a little bit too expensive. At least for new developers. Also for just starting QA or developers it can be too much. You need to invest not only money but also a time to better meet PHPStorm and be more efficient.

I think also there should be a better other languages support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PhpStorm:

If you are beginner tester, QA or software developer, price of this software can be too high. Also, you maybe don't need all of tools that PhpStorm provides. But if simple and free editors like atom or sublime text are not enough for you, and most of the time, you are working with php, json, js, css files, then you should consider buying PhpStorm. It's really good, fast and solid tool.

Generally i will recommend this tool for mid and senior QA / developers, not necessarily as the best choice for beginners and juniors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Writing unit and automatic tests in PhpStorm is much easier than in normal editors like atom or sublime. If I cannot do something with pure version of PhpStorm It is easy to implement necessary plugin Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rohit S.

Senior Software Engineer

Non-Profit Organization Management

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/1/2017

"PHPStorm - Good IDE for PHP"

5/5

What do you like best about PhpStorm?

IDE make it really easy for us to code. PHPStorm is very easy to use and has autocomplete features which enables us to write code in an efficient and factored way so that full team can understand it. There exsits other IDEs for PHP too but this is the best one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

Github integration would be really great which isn't there right now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PhpStorm:

Worth the money. There is 30-day trial too and education pack for students too. Go for it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

People in teams use PHPStorm to write modular code so that everyone can write one module at a time and the work division is top class. It's different than other ones in many ways that one can imagine of. It has ready made templates that you can directly use to kickstart any small or big projects, etc. Overall so many benefits that it's worth the time and money that we invest in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/7/2018

"Probably the best PHP editor I have ever used"

5/5

What do you like best about PhpStorm?

It helps me with code completion. Finding object references.

It makes very easy for me to upload files to the server...

It has built-in version control client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

I had some problems trying to debug my code. The debugging set up was not as easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chad H.

Database & Web Services Manager

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/29/2017

"Excellent IDE. can't work efficiently without it"

5/5

What do you like best about PhpStorm?

Code completion, quickly able to jump to functions/methods through the whole project with a click, GIT integration and showing me my changes in any file and any line. The IDE starts quickly and even has a built-in database interaction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

The debugging modes are hard and complicated to use. Wish the spell checker/changer was quicker to access. Quickly renaming files would be nice. There are sometimes where I will click out of the IDE to a web browser (mostly Chrome) or email client and back the PHPStorm and my cursor will not show up and I can make any changes edits. To correct this I have to click out of the IDE and back in. Not a huge deal and it doesn't happen very often. If you can tell there is a lack of dislikes and needed to find something. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PhpStorm:

PHPStorm is worth the subscription. It has really helped me develop code efficiently and reliably. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Developing code for our site mostly all oh PHPStorm. The IDE is pretty solid and I can quickly edit & upload/commit code changes to get features/fixes to our site fast. I love to be able to quickly open a terminal with the direction already loaded and all within the IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/30/2018

"PhpStorm is an awesome tool"

5/5

What do you like best about PhpStorm?

I have been searching for an IDE for some time, and the vast number of integrated tools, from Git through to code inspection and database management made this a real standout.

When starting a new project you know there will be many long hours ahead so its important that you are comefortable with the programing environment being used.

PhpStorm is comefortable to use, has a huge set of features including support for a very wide range of frameworks including AngularJS, Symphony, Drupal etc.

It also has support for a very broad range of technologies including CSS, HTML5, Javascript and allows for refactoring, debugging across everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

There is little to dislike about this product, however if I had to pick something it would be that it can be a ittle slow and manages to consume quite a few resources on my system. But this is a small price to pay for such a great tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PhpStorm:

While there are many different IDEs on the market, PhpStorm is a real standout in terms of support, features and ease of use. I now spend most of my day inside the interface without the need for any other 3rd party tools. Well worth the price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

PhpStorm has made software development much more efficient with its VCS integration, SFTP capabilities and database management tools all builtin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/13/2018

"The best PHP IDE"

5/5

What do you like best about PhpStorm?

Very powerful, lots of shortcuts, easy to refactor code, code-inspection to highlight problems, integrates with x-debug well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

PhpStorm is quite heavy on memory use - 1.5Gb isn't unusual. Not free Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PhpStorm:

Do the free trial, and see for yourself. Have a look through the Plugins, and I'd recommend "Php Inspections (EA Extended)" in particular. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.