What’s New in PhpStorm 2019.3

PhpStorm fully supports the brand new short syntax for one-line lambda functions in PHP 7.4. The IDE provides completion for variables from the outer scope, and, with one click, PhpStorm will take you to the declaration.

A quick-fix to convert one-line lambda functions from the old syntax to the new short one is also available. Just press Alt-Enter over an anonymous function and choose Convert closure to arrow function.

In PHP 7.4, you can add underscore separators to a long number to visually format and improve the readability of your code.

If you see a long number, place the caret over it, press Alt+Enter, and select Add number separators. This will add an underscore '_' after every third digit for decimal numbers, or every fourth digit in hex, binary, and octal.

PHP 7.4 deprecates left associativity for nested ? : operators. This means that either you should not use nested ternaries at all, or, if you have to, you should use parentheses to explicitly declare the order of computation.

PhpStorm 2019.3 will highlight deprecated expressions and will provide you with a quick-fix to clarify the behavior.

This PHP release not only added new features but also deprecated many old ones.

PhpStorm 2019.3 has the corresponding inspections and will highlight pieces of code that need your attention. Where possible, you’ll have an option to quick-fix the deprecated behavior automatically.

Whenever you open an .http file, you will now get a toolbar which gives you quick access to all the common actions:

• Add request – create requests from templates.
• Convert from cURL – create requests by pasting a cURL in the editor.
• Open Log – view the list of sent requests and open/compare the responses.
• Examples – explore a collection of handy HTTP requests.

We’ve added three dynamic variables that you can use in the requests:

• $uuid – Generates a new UUID-v4.
• $timestamp – Current Unix timestamp.
• $randomInt – A random integer between 0 and 1000.

Use double curly braces to insert these variables where you need to.

You can write multiple requests in one .http file. This is quite convenient if you need to do request chains where a request depends on the result of the previous ones.

Earlier, you had to run each request one by one, now in PhpStorm 2019.3, you are able to run them all with one click!

If you are sending a request with a long body, for example, multipart form data or maybe many headers, you may want to fold it to reduce noise in the editor.

You can fold the whole request leaving only the first line or the body by clicking the arrow icon in the gutter.

With the new Propagate to destructuring intention Alt+Enter, you can replace an extra variable with another destructuring. To remove a destructuring completely, use the intention action called Replace destructuring with property or index access.

The IDE will now warn you if a boolean expression in a condition has any unnecessary parts, and it will suggest simplifying it.

When you clone a project out of a version control system, from either the IDE Welcome screen or the VCS menu, you will see an updated Get from Version Control dialog.

With this redesign, we hope to improve the experience of getting a project from your GitHub account. You can now select GitHub on the left-hand side of the dialog and log in to your account from there.

You can now push changes from any branch directly from the Branches popup – select a branch and then use the Push action in the menu.

Previously, you could only push changes from the branch you were currently working with, and to do this, you would have had to have switched to the branch first before you could push the changes.

Sometimes, when looking through the version history log, it’s easier to comprehend the information if the time is displayed in a relative format like dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy if you are from the US.

In PhpStorm 2019.3, it is possible to configure the date format for VCS Annotate and VCS Log actions.