Why PhpStorm

Enjoy Productive PHP

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Code assist

PhpStorm deeply
understands your code.

Major frameworks support

PhpStorm is perfect for working with Symfony, Laravel, Drupal, WordPress, Zend Framework, Magento, Joomla!, CakePHP, Yii, and other frameworks.

All the PHP tools

The editor actually 'gets' your code and deeply understands its structure, supporting all the PHP language features for modern and legacy projects. It provides the best code completion, refactorings, on-the-fly error prevention, and more.

Front-end technologies included

Make the most of the cutting edge front-end technologies, such as HTML 5, CSS, Sass, Less, Stylus, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Emmet, and JavaScript, with refactorings, debugging, and unit testing available. See the changes instantly in the browser thanks to Live Edit.

Built-in developer tools

Perform many routine tasks right from the IDE, thanks to the Version Control Systems integration, support for remote deployment, databases/SQL, command-line tools, Docker, Composer, REST Client, and many other tools.

PhpStorm = WebStorm + PHP + DB/SQL

All the features in WebStorm are included into PhpStorm, with full-fledged support for PHP and Databases/SQL support added on top.

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Intelligent Coding Assistance

Hundreds of inspections take care of verifying your code as you type, analyzing the whole project. PHPDoc support, code (re)arranger and formatter, quick-fixes, and other features help you write neat code that is easy to maintain.

Refactoring

Smart Code Navigation

Be the master of your codebase thanks to the efficient, lightning-fast navigation features. The IDE understands where you want to go and gets you there instantly.

Debugging

Fast and Safe Refactoring

Refactor your code reliably with the safe Rename, Move, Delete, Extract Method, Inline Variable, Push members Up / Pull members Down, Change Signature, and many other refactorings. Language-specific refactorings help you perform project-wide changes in a matter of clicks, which can​ all be safely undone.

Tool integration

Easy Debugging and Testing

PhpStorm is renowned for its zero-configuration Visual Debugger, providing extraordinary insight into what goes on in your application at every step. It works with Xdebug and Zend Debugger, and can be used both locally and remotely. Unit Testing with PHPUnit, BDD with Behat and profiler integration are all also available.

Code assist
Navigation
Refactoring
Debugging
Tool integration

What’s new in PhpStorm 2023.2

AI Assistant Limited access

Chat with AI Assistant and have it do things like automatically write documentation comments for you, suggest names, generate commit messages, and more! To access it, search for “AI Assistant” in Preferences | Plugins and install the plugin manually.

GitLab integration

PhpStorm 2023.2 introduces initial integration with GitLab, allowing you to work with Merge Requests right from the IDE.

Improvements for PHP tools

The latest release comes with numerous improvements around PHP tooling, such as support for baseline in PHP_CodeSniffer, support for Laravel Pint, more use cases covered for generics in PHP, support for assertions, and much more.

Meet the PhpStorm community

@settermjd

@geeh @phpstorm I'm hooked mate. I've been so productive lately it's silly. Keep up the great work.

@kpschrade

@phpstorm's code completion is incredibly useful.

@codeguy

@phpstorm is magical... in a good way. I find myself saying "oh that's convenient" over and over.

@mikeschinkel

If you are developing in PHP and are not using PhpStorm, you are working too hard.

@greydnls

"I'm so spoiled by PhpStorm!"

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