PhpStorm 6.0.1 Web Help

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PHP development support at the PhpStorm level is provided via the PHP bundled plugin. PHP deployment is provided via the Remote Hosts Access bundled plugin. Both plugins are by default activated. If not, enable them in on the Plugins page of the Settings dialog box.

You can have as many PHP engine versions installed and configured at the PhpStorm level and switch among them. However, within a project, you can have only one of these configurations activated.

In this sections:

To configure a PHP installation in PhpStorm
  1. Open the project settings and click PHP.
  2. Click the Browse button browseButton   next to the Interpreter drop-down list in the Development environment section.
  3. In the Interpreters dialog box, that opens, click the Add toolbar button add   on the left-hand pane.
  4. On the right-hand pane of the dialog box, specify the PHP installation settings.
    • In the Name text box, type the identifier to distinguish the installation from others, for example, php_installation_<version>.
    • Specify the PHP engine installation directory in the PHP Home field. Type the path manually or click the Browse button browseButton   and choose the location in the Choose PHP Home dialog box, that opens.
    • In the Debugger drop-down list, specify the debugging engine to use in the project.

      Tip

      The chosen debugging engine must be enabled in the php.ini file in the specified PHP installation directory.

  5. Optionally, customize the configuration settings of the installation. In the Configuration options field, compose a string of configuration directives to be passed through the -d command line option and thus add new entries to the php.ini file. To do that, click the Browse button browseButton.png next to the Configuration options field, and then create a list of entries in the Configuration Directives dialog box, that opens.
    • To add a new entry, click the Add button add.png. In the new line, that is added to the list, specify the name of the new entry and its value in the Name and Value text boxes respectively.

      Note

      You can add as many entries as you need, just keep in mind that they will be transformed into a command line with its length limited to 256 characters.

    • To delete an entry, select it in the list and click the Remove button delete.png.
    • To change the order of entries, use the Up arrowUp.png  and Down arrowDown.png buttons.

    Upon clicking OK, you return to the Interpreters dialog box, where the entries are transformed into a command line.

To enable PHP development support in a project
  1. Open the project settings and click PHP.
  2. In the PHP page that opens, choose the installation to use from the Interpreter drop-down list.
    • To make sure that the configuration you have chosen points at the relevant installation, click the Reload button refresh.png  next to the drop-down list. If no PHP engine is actually installed at the specified directory, PhpStorm displays the corresponding error message.
    • To examine the installation details, click the Show phpinfo button show_php_info.png  next to the drop-down list and view the full list of installation settings in a separate window. Actually, PhpStorm checks the installation and displays the result of executing the phpinfo command.
  3. In the PHP language level drop-down list, specify the PHP functionality scope to get coding assistance for. Each functionality scope is associated with PHP version that supports this functionality.

    No correlation between the PHP version used in the project and the language level is enforced. Although the language version of each interpreter is detected automatically, you can still tell PhpStorm to provide you with coding assistance that corresponds to another language level. However, if you attempt to use a code construct that is not supported by the specified language level, PhpStorm suggests a Switch to PHP <version> quick-fix.

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