Why developers like PhpStorm

What is PhpStorm?

PhpStorm is a PHP IDE which keeps up with latest PHP & web languages trends, integrates a variety of modern tools, and brings even more extensibility with support for major PHP frameworks.

PhpStorm is a tool in the Integrated Development Environment category of a tech stack.

Who uses PhpStorm?

Companies

1098 companies reportedly use PhpStorm in their tech stacks, including Lyft, Stack, and Accenture.

Lyft

Stack

Accenture

trivago

Kmong

Durstexpress GmbH

Typeform

9GAG

Mollie

Developers

7123 developers on StackShare have stated that they use PhpStorm.

Pubu

Hitalo Silva

Vishwajeet Vatharkar

Goshipages

M.E.A.N Stack +

Jet Set Clean

Curate

polo9n_info

Eric

PhpStorm Integrations

Vagrant, Google App Engine, Composer, WakaTime, and Codota are some of the popular tools that integrate with PhpStorm. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with PhpStorm.

Vagrant

Google App Engine

Composer

WakaTime

Codota

Pros of PhpStorm

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Integrated version control

Great php ide for mac

Best inspection variable

Best bebugging

Easy to find anything and everything in your code

PHPUnit integration

Getting Better

Command line integration

Neat does the job and easy

Performance

Composer integration

Real time code validation

Great frameworks integration

Cross platform

Coolest IDE

It has no match. it filled one of the biggest void

TypeScript support

Debugger for Javascript

Code indexing

Best ide for advanced php and symfony

Easy to use and github interaction

Great refactoring support

Perfect locahost / host sync

Awesome debugging features

Good

Integration with Vagrant and Docker

Debugging in the Just-In-Time Mode

Fast and relevant auto-complete

Best ide for php

Very good

Public Decisions about PhpStorm

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose PhpStorm in their tech stack.

Johnny Bell

Software Engineer at Weedmaps · Aug 15, 2019 | 11 upvotes · 272.8K views

Shared insights

When I switched to Visual Studio Code 12 months ago from PhpStorm I was in love, it was great. However after using VS Code for a year, I see myself switching back and forth between WebStorm and VS Code. The VS Code plugins are great however I notice Prettier, auto importing of components and linking to the definitions often break, and I have to restart VS Code multiple times a week and sometimes a day.

We use Ruby here so I do like that Visual Studio Code highlights that for me out of the box, with WebStorm I'd need to probably also install RubyMine and have 2 IDE's going at the same time.

Should I stick with Visual Studio Code, or switch to something else? #help

Johnny Bell's Stack Decision | StackShare

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PhpStorm's Features

Smart PHP Code Editor
Code Quality Analysis
Debugging and Testing
HTML/CSS/JavaScript Editor
Cross-platform Experience
Support for all major PHP frameworks
VCS
SQL Editor
Unit Testing

PhpStorm Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to PhpStorm?

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

WebStorm

WebStorm is a lightweight and intelligent IDE for front-end development and server-side JavaScript.

Sublime Text

Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.

DataGrip

A cross-platform IDE that is aimed at DBAs and developers working with SQL databases.

NetBeans IDE

NetBeans IDE is FREE, open source, and has a worldwide community of users and developers.

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