JetBrains PhpStorm
Major frameworks support
PhpStorm is perfect for working with Symfony, Laravel, Drupal, WordPress, Zend Framework, Magento, Joomla!, CakePHP, Yii, and other frameworks.
All the PHP tools
The editor actually ‘gets’ your code and deeply understands its structure, supporting all the PHP language features for modern and legacy projects. It provides the best code completion, refactorings, on-the-fly error prevention, and more.
Front-end technologies included
Make the most of the cutting edge front-end technologies, such as HTML 5, CSS, Sass, Less, Stylus, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Emmet, and JavaScript, with refactorings, debugging, and unit testing available. See the changes instantly in the browser thanks to Live Edit.
Built-in developer tools
Perform many routine tasks right from the IDE, thanks to the Version Control Systems integration, support for remote deployment, databases/SQL, command-line tools, Docker, Composer, REST Client, and many other tools.
PhpStorm = WebStorm + PHP + DB/SQL
All the features in WebStorm are included into PhpStorm, with full-fledged support for PHP and Databases/SQL support added on top.
Intelligent Coding Assistance
Hundreds of inspections take care of verifying your code as you type, analyzing the whole project. PHPDoc support, code (re)arranger and formatter, quick-fixes, and other features help you write neat code that is easy to maintain.
Smart Code Navigation
Be the master of your codebase thanks to the efficient, lightning-fast navigation features. The IDE understands where you want to go and gets you there instantly.
Fast and Safe Refactoring
Refactor your code reliably with the safe Rename, Move, Delete, Extract Method, Inline Variable, Push members Up / Pull members Down, Change Signature, and many other refactorings. Language-specific refactorings help you perform project-wide changes in a matter of clicks, which can all be safely undone.
Easy Debugging and Testing
PhpStorm is renowned for its zero-configuration Visual Debugger, providing extraordinary insight into what goes on in your application at every step. It works with Xdebug and Zend Debugger, and can be used both locally and remotely. Unit Testing with PHPUnit, BDD with Behat and profiler integration are all also available.
What’s new in PhpStorm 2021.3
Generics for PHP
We have added preliminary support for generics via the @template annotation. Working with collections is now much simpler, as the suggestions will contain elements of the expected type.
PHP 8.1
PhpStorm now offers support for the recently released PHP 8.1, with coding assistance and inspections covering enums, promoted properties, pure intersection types, first-class callables, and a lot more.
Deployment Enhancements
PhpStorm 2021.3 adds support for deployment via rsync, which can dramatically increase SFTP transfer speeds, lets you select a default deployment server from the status bar, retransmit the files that failed to upload, and more.
