

If you're looking for a *free* solution, have a look at NetBeans, but for professional use (as mentioned before) Pricing is reasonable and shouldn't be a problem.Īlso, if you're looking for the best-looking, simple to use IDE, probably PhpStorm is not for you (CODA might be a better solution). Try to download the trial or, if you need more time to test, download the 'EAP' release (alpha releases, less stable, but they allow for testing longer than 30 days). I would urge any serious PHP/Webdeveloper to give PhpStorm a try. * Quite fast It's still JAVA-based, but works multi-threaded and a lot faster than Eclipse-based solutions * Plugin-system to add additional features * Direct access to your database for quickly querying and making changes to database schemas * Integration with issue trackers allows automatically grouping changes to change lists connected to your issues * Integration with various VCS SVN (1.6 and 1.7), GIT, CVS * Code inspection Check/validate your code (single file or whole project) and get early warnings for possible errors in your code. * Excellent auto-completion for PHP, HTML, CSS and Javascript, that is based on your actual code, not just the standard PHP/Javascript pre-defined methods. And the developer is very responsive via their issue tracker, which allows up-voting feature requests and allows for discussing bugs, features etc.Ī shortlist of plusses that come in mind: Pricing is good (both 'professional' and 'personal' licenses). PhpStorm is simply the best PHP IDE at the moment. After using Eclipse (PDT) (slow), Aptana (basically Eclipse with additional add-ons and more user friendly), Zend IDE and NetBeans, we decided to give PhpStorm a try. Over the years our company has been looking for a standard IDE for PHP development. Rector: Use closest rector config when run rector from project tree via right mouse button click.Don’t suggest running Rector when there is no configuration file in project.Fixed: Accessing static trait members: quick-fix Replace with ‘self::’ access doesn’t make the inspection go.Fixed: "Calling static trait member directly is deprecated" shouldn’t highlight the late static binding call.Fixed: Non-ASCII characters inspection not working properly for comments inside arrays.Fixed: Code style formatting for php "Chained method calls" -> "Place ‘ ’ on new line" when assigning to variable.Fixed: Suggesting wrong imports because of partial export field support in package.json.Fixed: Terminal tab name resets when activating.Added: Start Listening for PHP Debug Connections on the main toolbar in new UI.This release includes fixes for a possible freeze due to .#VISITOR_RESULT_CACHE_LOCK, and a fix for another edge case of Xdebug issue mentioned in the post-mortem part.
