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PhpStorm Demo -  Craft high-quality code with intelligent code editing
Whatever task you have at hand, PhpStorm brings smart coding assistance to your fingertips. With tons of useful features and shortcuts for every action, you have all the support you need to focus on what’s essential and enjoy productive PHP development.
PhpStorm Demo - Read codebases with easy navigation
Whether you’re exploring an unfamiliar codebase, digging into legacy code, or working with your own project, PhpStorm helps you navigate project files, code lines, symbol declarations, and usages with ease.
PhpStorm Demo - Upgrade your projects with smart refactoring
Refactor your code quickly and efficiently across the entire codebase. Migrate safely to newer PHP and framework versions. Undo changes in a matter of clicks, and stay confident in the quality and compatibility of your code.
PhpStorm Demo - Delegate even more routine tasks to AI
With PhpStorm, engage in AI-assisted development on your own terms. You can use PhpStorm’s built-in AI-powered service to have entire lines of code suggested without sending any data to external servers and plug into AI Assistant for unlimited AI support with your routine tasks.
PhpStorm Demo - Track down and fix errors with the built-in debugger
Still using var_dump() to see what’s happening inside your PHP program? With PhpStorm’s visual debugger for Xdebug, you can get live debugging data, conditional breakpoints, and step-through insight into code execution with minimal configuration effort required.
PhpStorm Demo - Ensure code quality with support for testing frameworks
Take advantage of PhpStorm’s built-in support for all major PHP testing tools, including PHPUnit and Pest. Have your unit tests generated automatically, assess code coverage at the file or project view, and inspect test results in a dedicated window.
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Anders E.
AE
Founder
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"The best IDE for PHP I've worked with"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

PhpStorm is the industry standard for PHP IDE's. The tool itself plus the available plugins turbo-charges development and makes it easier than ever to create large and complex applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

The only downside to PhpStorm is its memory footprint, but that isn't an issue on a day-to-day basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Omar A.
OA
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"PHPstorm is the best code editor for the PHP programming language."
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

PHP consider better editor for PHP, Why? Because

Configured with the PHP programming language

Has more and more extensions for PHP

Well integrated with Git or GitHub

Easy to find and track PHP syntax errors

Free for students

Large community Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

We faced some issues such as: slow performance compared to some IDEs, very costly especially for startup developers, and this point should be reviewed. Need to clarify usage for the first time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MD
Product Lead Technology
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Excellent PHP IDE with fair pricing model"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

Most of our stack has migrated from PHP to a JavaScript-based codebase, so we switched to Webstorm and only need to use PhpStorm occasionally. The fair pricing model JetBrains offers with PhpStorm means, that we can still keep using our fallback license without being stuck in an infinite recurring pricing scheme. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

Like other JetBrains IDEs PhpStorm too can be very taxing on system resources. Starting up the application can be slow and once your machine runs out of available memory the IDE will become slow to respond. To make only small changes to a single file one might be better served using a more light-weight code editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jose M.
JM
Programador full stack
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"PhpStorm: the essential IDE for PHP developers"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

PhpStorm is a high-quality IDE for PHP application development. It offers a wide range of features and useful tools, such as debugging, refactoring, code autocompletion, and support for multiple languages. Additionally, it integrates with many popular PHP frameworks like Symfony, Laravel, WordPress, Drupal, among others.

What I like most about PhpStorm is its ability to enhance developer productivity. The code template functions and context-based code completion are excellent for saving time and reducing errors in code writing. Moreover, the ability to handle large projects without sacrificing performance or stability is impressive.

In summary, I highly recommend PhpStorm to any PHP developer looking for a solid IDE with advanced features that boosts productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

Although PhpStorm is a popular IDE among PHP developers, it may not be suitable for everyone. The learning curve can be steep, especially for those who are not familiar with the advanced features of an IDE.

Additionally, the license price can be a barrier for some developers, especially those working on small or personal projects. Although PhpStorm offers a free trial version, it may be insufficient to fully evaluate the tool.

Another potential issue with PhpStorm is that it consumes a lot of system resources, which can slow down the performance of the machine on which it is being used. There may also be compatibility issues with older operating systems or older hardware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Charanjeet S.
CS
Senior Software Developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Best PHP code Editor and IDE"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

PHPStorm is the best IDE providing each and every function and feature required to development. Code autocompletions, syntax checking, server connection, db connection everything can be managed from a single UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

PHPstorm provides a lot of features that's why it becomes too heavy and is not compatible with the systems with less configuarations. Otherwise I don't think I found anything else that I don't like in storm Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jonathan G.
JG
Software Engineer Team Lead
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"7 years using PHPStorm and it is awesome"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

It is very helpful when trying to find where a class, method or attribute is being used. It integrates very well with Xdebug and docker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

It can be pretty demanding with your system resources, but if you tune it right, it will work very nicely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"PhpStorm - Must Have for PHP Devs"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

The ease of starting a project or opening up an old project was virtually flawless. Starting new projects with frameworks was also made simple with built-in functionality. The intellisense provided by PhpStorm also makes coding your projects fast and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

Setting up the project to run through XAMPP was not as simple as it should have been. Often had to wait several seconds and sometimes minutes for a project to properly save in any directories it was being saved in to properly see the updates made. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"One of the best IDE for PHP"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

This is a great PHP developing IDE with many inbuilt tools and features. Using PhpStorm, coding is easy and easy to debuging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

As a great IDE, this is not an open-source platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet
UI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"PHP development IDE on a 100 morning coffees routine."
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

PHPStorm is an all stop show, swiss army knife of PHP development, VCS integration, Automatic deployment to selected host, code analysis and file structure all at the same place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

PHPStorm is a BIG IDE, and it's hungry! Being developed in Java, it's memory hungry, just keep that in mind. You can still use it on a smaller system, but not all the tools will work well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chinedu U.
CU
Senior Software Engineer
Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great for PHP programming"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

It is well-integrated with the PHP programming language. It makes programming in PHP a whole lot easier. Has all the usual tools of the Jetbrains eco system, so excellent all around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

I can't think of anything, to be honest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing Options

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$249.00
1 User Per Year

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$99.00
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