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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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Recent PhpStorm Reviews

Enguerran M.
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Enguerran M.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"A powerful tool for PHP development"
In general, these features equipped PhpStorm to be the fastest and most productive IDE by intelligent code completion, debugging capabilities insid...
Marcello T.
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Marcello T.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Complete tool for PHP programming"
PHP Storm integrates database access natively, greatly helping programming in a practical way. Creating an application using an existing database ...
Giuseppe N.
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Giuseppe N.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"A Powerful IDE for Efficient PHP Development In complex projects"
PHPStorm help all our team to working extensively on FormaLMS. Has a lot of unbealiveble functionalities such us advanced autocompletion and insigh...

PhpStorm Media

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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Bhavi T.
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What do you like best about PhpStorm?

phpstrom comes with the complete package tools integrated like phpcs as well as command prompt (Terminal), which fulfill all my needs to do code & run the commands as I am working on a symphony-based framework. The interface is also friendly and clean with the dark & light theme available which gives the developer cool enviornment while coding. It is easy to install & configure. Tips they are providing on startt up of editor is mind blowing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

It is littlr bit costly but you can purchase it in the festive seasons like International Friendship Day , Black Friday etc so you can get beneifts in price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Coding Management with git, Coding Standards Management, Code Debugging Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alex A.
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What do you like best about PhpStorm?

I love this IDE. I came from VS Code thinking that was the best, but boy was I wrong. I love the customization that is allowed here, from visual themes to other plugins to help with your workflows. The GUI for git and terminal are also an incredibly awesome bonus. Managing projects is also a breeze with this editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

The only negative comment I have is in terms of booting up. While it is not extremely slow like other bloated IDEs of the past, I do notice that it takes a bit longer to get started. Make sure you have your coffee with you when you get your day started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Version control has become such a breeze with PhpStorm. I feel like a Git master now who can easily navigate the commands in the terminal if ever needed. Managing a Wordpress project/theme and custom plugins has never been easier now, as well as defining classes and managing Javascript. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yoyal L.
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What do you like best about PhpStorm?

PhpStorm has a great collection of themes and has many other features among which live templates, Direct deployment to Cpanel and Code Refactoring are some of my favourites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

It is a bit resource-heavy. Opening about 4 projects consequently eats half of my ram (8 GB). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Building Websites and APIs has been easier with PhpStorm. Code Suggestion and refactoring have made my day-to-day work much easier which clearly reflects on my efficiency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PhpStorm?

PHP Storm gives a beautiful strong toolbox to PHP improvement. Fantastic PHP engineer with the most different highlights that an IDE ought to have, making the experience more complete and fluid.t autocompletes your code as you compose. Phpstorm is the ideal IDE for creating web applications utilizing PHP, HTML, CSS, and javascript. It accompanies its own terminal so you don't need to open another. Its UI is extraordinary with incredible topics the client can tweak agreeable to them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

It requires high CPU and memory resources when it starts, So it is not for low configurations systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It gives all that is needed for the product improvement and following of advancement itself like source code management, auto-completion, error suggestions, version control, etc. I developed all PHP full-stack projects using PHP storm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joshua D.
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What do you like best about PhpStorm?

The XDebug integration makes step-through debugging of PHP code very simple once it's set up correctly. Searching across large projects is quick once the indexing has completed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

PHPStorm can consume large amounts of memory (multiple gigabytes) when working with a large project. Also, sometimes the index or cache becomes out of date and needs to be manually cleared. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

My team and I use PHPStorm to build large web applications. It allows us to work on large-scale projects while being able to easily navigate throughout the codebase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PhpStorm?

PhpStorm is exactly what is it a strong php IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

Nothing is more frustrating than see the other IDE from JetBrain and have to pay for each of them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PhpStorm:

If you have a different language to support. Go with a different IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The IDE is pretty easy to use. It provides a debugger that is helpful. It is also easy to find definition and declaration within code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PhpStorm?

Phpstorm is a great IDE for all web programmers and I highly recommend it. Considering its size, it is super fast! It also supports many languages and plugins other than PHP, allowing you to build robust applications consisting of several programming languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

If there is more than one large project open at a time it can cause the system to get quite slow. Additionally, it is not a free IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PhpStorm:

Try out the free 30 day trial via JetBrains before purchasing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am currently building interactive tools for buyers of a large company, which will allow them to view their inventory and listings in a more proficient manner via connection to a SQL database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Charles  S.
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What do you like best about PhpStorm?

There are so many great features

like as

- Database client

- Terminal

- Git features

- Good Vim emulation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

In my case there is just one problem sometimes it takes a lot of time to index things for project opening Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have solved more problems at once,

- To manage my db,

- The ftp with remote host,

- The integration with git Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nfon A.
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What do you like best about PhpStorm?

Light weight

Supports php and frameworks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

Crashes sometimes

Needs to be updated often Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Php, Laravel webapps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mateusz P.
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What do you like best about PhpStorm?

It's the only PHP IDE that behaves like an IDE. It has refactoring features, code generation, can work with Docker or local servers etc. The tests integration is very easy.

Now it also have a feature of pair programming which is very useful for online working teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

It's quite heavy, especially if you open a few projects. But I think it's inevitable with such a tool.

Also the configuration is sometimes complicated. But there is a lot of tutorials available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering PhpStorm:

Don't hesitate and buy the license. If you are developing in PHP it's the only tool out there that will meet your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am developing all my days using PHPStorm. It's the only tool I really use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.