PHPStorm ¶

PHPStorm is a back-end IDE (PHP, PHP frameworks, Node.js, Databases, Composer) powered by JetBrains exclusively available in a paid version.

👉 JetBrains IDEs share many features explained here.

Features

• 🌱 preview code in any browser with auto-refresh on change
• 🚀 recognize old code snippets and suggest upgrades
• 🔥 recognize simple mistakes and suggest fixes
• ⏳ can generate common code snippets (equals, getters...)
• ...

Remote development ¶

🌱 You can code directly on a remote server. No need to install tools on your computer, but it means users may see your changes.

Press CTRL+ALT+S or ⚙️ > Settings. Navigate to Build... then Deployment. From there, create a new configuration.

• enter your SFTP credentials
• the root path is the path to your project on the remote host
• the webserver URL isn't your website URL. If they are different, then you should set mappings
• in excluded paths, you can exclude some folders from upload

Navigate to Options within Deployment, and select a condition for uploading files, such as Always.

PHP CLI ¶

You can set up the PHP interpreter that will be used to execute scripts or install tools when using some IDE features.

• Open the IDE Settings
• Click on the PHP section
• Click on [...] on the PHP CLI interpreter line
• Add a new interpreter
  • Set PHP executable to the PHP binary
  • Set PHP configuration to the php.ini file
• Go back and select your interpreter in the list

Composer install ¶

Instead of installing composer.phar, you can download composer.phar from the IDE and load it using your PHP CLI.

• Open the IDE Settings
• Navigate to PHP > Composer
• Select "composer.phar" in "execution"
• Click on "download" and select your PHP interpreter
• Apply and exit