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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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Users consistently praise the intelligent code completion and seamless integration with various frameworks, which significantly enhance productivity and streamline development processes. The IDE's extensive features and customization options make it a favorite among PHP developers, although some note that it can be resource-intensive and may slow down on older machines.

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UM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"One of the best PHP IDE out there"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

It has excellent support for Windows subsystem Linux (WSL2). It has nice IntelliSense and integrations like git, docker, xdebug & many more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

Sometimes it takes a lot of time to index things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NB
Software Developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"The solution for your powerful developer clients."
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

This software attracts my attention, due to its splendid and effective functionalities, which it has integrated into its programming, which can be used by any user in particular, in the most flexible way possible, including that it supports direct access keys that help the coding process, and make it faster at work, since we save considerable time, thanks to this option of use, without excluding that it contains an automatic generation of assistance functions such as autocomplete and quite useful information and prevalent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

After some updates to the version of PhpStorm, drastically, the application began to present slowdown failures, to start or perform several operations at the same time, which is a considerable problem, since sometimes due to its slow system, it can delay the work you do on a platform, on significant issues, including the initialization process for source code debugging, it's a bit obscure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NM
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"PhpStorm, a great and smart IDE for every web-dev"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

With PhpStorm you've smart addons to work much easier with frameworks and they make your work so much easier. There is no need to have the documentation open on the side you can just rely on the autofill option for example. It really helped me to get comfortable at programming with shopware and symfony. But it is not just that, you have built in terminals, git / vcs support and you can fast and easily connect to databases you are working with. It is in my opinion the perfect IDE to work with projects built on a PHP Stack. It is definitely a must-have to work properly in structured and OOP projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

Unfortunately it costs money. But it does for a good reason, because the features it comes with make it very worth. And it is a java based IDE leading to some memory issues, next to that I still can not see any real downside to PhpStorm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Paul M.
PM
System Analist - Datacenter
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Best PHP development environment ever"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

The possibilities of Remote debugging to another linuxbox Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

For some task is a little heavy, if i just need read code o adjust some config I use other tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohammed A.
MA
Full Stack web developer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great tool to help with web development and save time of developing"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

Support for several languages and programming libraries for web development, especially the PHP language and its frameworks and JavaScript and its frameworks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

Perhaps there is a problem with the temporary suspension, which is a bit heavy, but this is forgiven for the services it provides Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best development software for websites"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

PhpStorm is a very good editor, I can definitely recommend it. Edited for a long time with PhpStorm, but also with his brothers from Jetbrains; Pycharm and Intellij. They are all top products that make your life much better.

As for PhpStorm, the debugger and good integration with XDebug is a huge plus. Putting a simple breakpoint in your code all makes as much as possible. In addition, PhpStorm also does a lot in the background. Such as highlighting code that is broken by definition, improvements for syntax and automagic import of namcespaces. Finally, it also has a lot of extra functionalities, such as a database client.

The only thing I don't like working so much are front-end things like Angular and React. For this I like to switch back to VSCode for the IntelliSense of TypeScript and JavaScript. It is possible in PhpStorm, but it is not my favorite. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

The console. If you try to intall a npm package and try to paste it in the console it acts weird Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Carmelo B.
CB
Senior Backend Developer & Devops
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Programming.With benefits"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

All: completition, automation, error highlights, Quality checks ... all that you can dream.

You can install plugins to face all the completition - code generation - code navigation of the main framework in the industry: it be symfony, laravel, yii, PhpStorm have you covered.

You can debug your code very easily in PHPStorm, even if you use Docker or other container based systems: PhpStorm comes with containers handling capabilities that makes set up, start, stop and using containers a breeze.

Ah forgot: do you have html or css or js in your project as well and not only php? Even there, PhpStorm is ready to assist you: you'll have checkers and autocompletition for those too.

For me is the perfect programming companion Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

Nothing really ... but one thing that can be misleading is the "shelve" feature that is the same as Stash in GIT Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ES
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"What is PhpStorm IDE? Why use it?"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

PHPStorm extended code formatting structure is ready to help you format your code, perform unit tests or provide visual debugging. It provides a rich code editor and code completion features. In addition, PhpStorm offers an excellent suggestion to help you understand the operation of the application at every step.

It works well with large frameworks like PHPStorm, Symfony, Zend Framework, Yii, CakePHP, Laravel and important CMS systems like Drupal, Magento and WordPress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

The only and biggest drawback is that it is paid, unlike its biggest competitors. There is a free version for students, universities and many institutions, but for companies it is bad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BB
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Developing powerful application with PhpStorm"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

PhpStorm is my first choice when it comes to developing a PHP Web application. All the major PHP frameworks are supported in Phpstorm such as Laravel, CodeIgnitor, Symphony, CakePHP, Wordpress, and Magento. PHPstorm is the advanced version of Webstorm with support of PHP and Database. Its refactor feature helps in safely renaming, editing and deleting a file in the project. With PHPStorm we can build powerful web applications and API and work with remote projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

PHPStorm is a very heavy IDE and has a very slow startup time. It reduces our system performance while working on a heavy project or file. I have personally experienced this issue on my mac system while working with a heavy javascript file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AT
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Simple yet Powerful PHP IDE software"
What do you like best about PhpStorm?

PHPstorm is our first choice when it comes to developing a large PHP web application as it supports almost every PHP framework like Symphony, Laravel, Drupal, Magento, and Zend framework. Once the project is created it deeply scan our project for all dependencies and understand its structures. PHPStorm even supports all major frontend technologies likes HTML, CSS, Javascript, Jquery, SASS, LESS, Vue, Typescript and many more. Another feature of PHPStorm is the Live edit feature that helps in seeing the changes instantly in the browser. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PhpStorm?

The only thing I dislike about PHPStorm is that whenever there is an update for Mac PHPStorm we have to download it externally and install it again. Another disadvantage is that while working on a large project or heavy file the system slows down and makes it impossible for us to do other work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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