PhpStorm

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PHP integrated development environment (IDE) editor

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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Overall rating

4.8 /5
(144)
Value for Money
4.4/5
Features
4.8/5
Ease of Use
4.5/5
Customer Support
4.5/5

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Daniel
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

PHPStorm is the best paid IDE I tried

Reviewed on 31/03/2022

It helped me wrote better code: code completion it's a breeze, syntax highlighting helps you a lot,...

It helped me wrote better code: code completion it's a breeze, syntax highlighting helps you a lot, documentation is superb. I created projects almost without effort, keeped it all very tidy and orderly.

Pros

It has all the features the other IDEs have, and more. it's easy to integrate it with other tools.

Cons

It could be expensive. It's learning curve may be steep.

Alternatives Considered

Apache NetBeans and Sublime Text

Reasons for Choosing PhpStorm

I needed something more robust to manage big projects

Switched From

Sublime Text

Reasons for Switching to PhpStorm

It has more an better features.
Krystian
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

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Reviewed on 16/01/2023

I switched from Microsoft Visual Studio Code and i was very suprised how PHP Storm handles code,...

I switched from Microsoft Visual Studio Code and i was very suprised how PHP Storm handles code, allows you to do a lot of wonderful things. Great product and i would recommend it to every PHP Developer. I think it's a must have for Php developers with every level of seniority.

Pros

Easy to use, helps you to keep your code clean, easy github integration, allows to show databases and tables within, customizable, TODO list builded in, debugg tool

Cons

Sometimes it has issues after updates but it's rapidly fixed, price could be lower but overall great product.

Ben
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  • 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 27/08/2019

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.

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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

PhpStorm can be a bit heavy but it fits my needs Perfectly. The best editor I have used.

Reviewed on 11/03/2022

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.

Kennedy
Kennedy
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

PhpStorm - The best PHP IDE

Reviewed on 16/05/2019

We use Phpstorm to code our web applications and it has drastically reduced the time our developers...

We use Phpstorm to code our web applications and it has drastically reduced the time our developers are building web applications and there are fewer programming errors thanks to phpstorm.

Pros

The syntax highlighting is very good for PHP, HTML and Javascript. The User Interface is friendly and easy use. Keyboard shortcuts are available that speed up development. Phpstorm supports version control which makes going back to commits easy. Further, you can deploy your application to your server right from Phpstorm and integrates well with third party plugins such as Laravel IDE helper and there arelots of plugins from the official plugins repository that can be accessed from the IDE itself. There is also a student pack that gives free licences for a year to students to help them taste the full power of PHPstorm.

Cons

The price is the only thing that I dont like about PHPstorm.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Visual Studio

Reasons for Switching to PhpStorm

Its elegance and features. Its also a mature IDE that has been in the market for long
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PhpStorm FAQs

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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

PhpStorm has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

PhpStorm supports the following languages:

English, Italian

PhpStorm supports the following devices:

We do not have any information about what integrations PhpStorm has

PhpStorm offers the following support options:

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