PhpStorm
About PhpStorm
PhpStorm is a hypertext preprocessor (PHP) integrated development environment (IDE) editor designed to help developers manage code programming, testing, debugging, and completion on a unified interface. It supports development processes across several frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, Zend Framework, Drupal, WordPress, Magento, CakePHP, Joomla!, Yii, and more.
The application provides various tools to assist with coding requirements including syntax highlighting, code formatting, and automated refactoring. Administrators can utilize a visual debugger to inspect and evaluate PHP applications in runtime based on user-defined variables, set breakpoints, and debug pages in multiple sessions. It also allows professionals to create PHPUnit tests and implement them from a file, class or directory.
It facilitates JavaScript, CSS and HTML code completion in accordance with tags, keywords, labels, functions, variables, parameters, and other specifics. Other features include live editing preview, JavaScript templates, SQL editor, built-in SSH console, Google app engine for PHP, duplicated code detection, dataflow analysis, and more.
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- Industry: Online Media
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
A must have for PHP Developers
Reviewed on 2023/01/13
Pros
In a shortcut, this is the best PHP IDE. Quick updates to various PHP versions. Auto completion help coding much faster and amazing compatibility with most Web coders like GitHub, Laravel framework and Dockers.
Cons
Price is slightly increasing whenever you renew yearly instead of decreasing.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
The best IDE I've used by a mile.
Reviewed on 2023/07/18
Explained my overall experience with the pros of the software, it's a fantastic program.
Explained my overall experience with the pros of the software, it's a fantastic program.
Pros
The versatility of PHPStorm is unrivalled, there's so many features that you don't even know you're using that help make day-to-day tasks easier. The ability to customise the appearance is a great bonus, along with being able to customise code structure and formatting so you can auto-format code with a keyboard shortcut, so every file created is formatted exactly the same.
Cons
Honestly, there's not much I don't like. If I was to be fussy, I'd say there's potentially too many options, but my usage of PHPStorm is quite limited compared to some users, so they will likely benefit from those extra features.It does occasionally cause your system to slow down due to memory hogging, but it is only occasional, I see it as it's telling me to take a break.
Reasons for Choosing PhpStorm
I did a contract with an agency where their lead developer suggested it to me, best decision I made.Switched From
Sublime TextReasons for Switching to PhpStorm
Mainly because it was recommended to me. But I had some experience with Dreamweaver, and wanted to try a new program.- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Feature Rich Code IDE
Reviewed on 2019/08/27
If you are a professional developer and need a quality tool for your work, PHPStorm is worth the...
If you are a professional developer and need a quality tool for your work, PHPStorm is worth the money. But be prepared to put in the time to learn the IDE
Pros
The amount of work that you can get done without leaving the editor is fantastic. From sshing into your server, version control, database and testing. Great number of plugins for most frameworks and testing tools.
Cons
The price is becoming a bit of an issue for me. With that being said, it does make your development process so much easier. Memory usage is quite high too and sometimes I find myself using a more lightweight editor such as vscode or sublime.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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PhpStorm can be a bit heavy but it fits my needs Perfectly. The best editor I have used.
Reviewed on 2022/03/11
Love it in every aspect even though it can get sluggish sometimes it never fails. It's the swiss...
Love it in every aspect even though it can get sluggish sometimes it never fails. It's the swiss army knife for devs :)
Pros
PHPStorm does practically all a developer could think of.
- Database Management
- Various Languages support
- Easy to the eye color theming
- The search and replace is so powerful!
- Ability to have your terminal right there without having to open yet another app.
- Git!!!
- So well organized - A+++
Cons
I have nothing when it comes to cons. This tool is so customizable that any time some feature bothers me I can just switch it off.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Once you get used to it, you'll never leave it
Reviewed on 2020/09/23
We love working in PHPStorm, we like it's layout, the plugins, VCS integration, stability,...
We love working in PHPStorm, we like it's layout, the plugins, VCS integration, stability, responsiveness etc.
Pros
I liked the most the fluidness of it's usage. No hick-ups, no long indexing processes, fast auto-completion, quick search, useful refactoring wizards...
If man uses other JetBrains IDEs, too, like Android Studio for example, then the convenience to have the same interface (UI, debugger, database browser etc.) and especially hotkeys is very pleasant.
Cons
Color scheme is different from other editors, this took a bit time to get used to (1 week at most) but really can't tell any bad things about it.
PhpStorm FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for PhpStorm.Q. What type of pricing plans does PhpStorm offer?
PhpStorm offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$249.00/year
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
PhpStorm (For Organizations) - $249 per user/per year PhpStorm (For Individual Use) - $99 per year
Q. Who are the typical users of PhpStorm?
PhpStorm has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does PhpStorm support?
PhpStorm supports the following languages:
English, Italian
Q. Does PhpStorm support mobile devices?
PhpStorm supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does PhpStorm integrate with?
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Q. What level of support does PhpStorm offer?
PhpStorm offers the following support options:
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