PhpStorm
Encyclopedia
JetBrains PhpStorm is a commercial IDE
for PHP
built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA
platform.
PhpStorm provides intelligent editor for PHP code, HTML and JavaScript with on-the-fly code analysis and automated refactoring
for PHP and JavaScript code. Code completion supports PHP 5.3 including namespaces and closures. Full-fledged editor for SQL queries with editable query results is available.
with the equal PHP development support. Bundled PHP plugin provides same functionality as PhpStorm but inside IntelliJ IDEA.
Integrated development environment
An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development...
for PHP
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA
IntelliJ IDEA
IntelliJ IDEA is a commercial Java IDE by JetBrains. It is often simply referred to as "IDEA" or "IntelliJ."-History:The first version of IntelliJ IDEA was released in January 2001, and at the time was the only available Java IDE with advanced code navigation and code refactoring capabilities...
platform.
PhpStorm provides intelligent editor for PHP code, HTML and JavaScript with on-the-fly code analysis and automated refactoring
Refactoring
Code refactoring is "disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior", undertaken in order to improve some of the nonfunctional attributes of the software....
for PHP and JavaScript code. Code completion supports PHP 5.3 including namespaces and closures. Full-fledged editor for SQL queries with editable query results is available.
Key Features
In addition to the smart editor PhpStorm offers:- PhpUnit test framework support with graphical test-runner GUI
- PHP Debugger (XdebugXdebugXdebug is a PHP extension which provides debugging and profiling capabilities. It uses the DBGp debugging protocol.The debug information that Xdebug can provide includes the following:* stack and function traces in error messages with:...
, Zend Debugger) - Remote deployment facilities over FTP, SFTP, mounted network drive, etc. with automatic synchronization
- HTML5 and EcmaScript 5 supported
- Version Control Integrations: Subversion, GitGit (software)Git is a distributed revision control system with an emphasis on speed. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on...
, GitHub, PerforcePerforcePerforce is a commercial, proprietary, centralized revision control system developed by Perforce Software, Inc.-Architecture:Perforce is a client/server system.The server manages a central database and a master repository of file versions....
, MercurialMercurialMercurial is a cross-platform, distributed revision control tool for software developers. It is mainly implemented using the Python programming language, but includes a binary diff implementation written in C. It is supported on Windows and Unix-like systems, such as FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Linux...
, CVSConcurrent Versions SystemThe Concurrent Versions System , also known as the Concurrent Versioning System, is a client-server free software revision control system in the field of software development. Version control system software keeps track of all work and all changes in a set of files, and allows several developers ...
supported out of the box with changelists and shelved changes - Issue tracker integration
IntelliJ IDEA PHP Support
JetBrains also creates a polyglot developer IDE -- IntelliJ IDEAIntelliJ IDEA
IntelliJ IDEA is a commercial Java IDE by JetBrains. It is often simply referred to as "IDEA" or "IntelliJ."-History:The first version of IntelliJ IDEA was released in January 2001, and at the time was the only available Java IDE with advanced code navigation and code refactoring capabilities...
with the equal PHP development support. Bundled PHP plugin provides same functionality as PhpStorm but inside IntelliJ IDEA.
See also
- Comparison of integrated development environments