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Docker Support in PhpStorm
Docker is an open platform for building, shipping and running distributed applications. It gives programmers, development teams and operations engineers the common toolbox they need to take advantage...
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Debugging VVV Vagrant Setup With PhpStorm
It started with a Tweet: Who do i know that uses PHPstorm with VVV and XDebug? I need some guidance on getting things setup. — Andrew Woods (@awoods) June 21, 2016 Recently we’ve made a lot of...
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Updating Your Templates in PhpStorm
In the recent What’s New video for PhpStorm 2016.3, I noticed I was always adding PHP 7’s strict type declaration declare(strict_types=1) to every new file I created. I commented at the time that I...
View ArticleVCS in Depth for PhpStorm
Last summer the PyCharm team released some amazing content introducing the version control system (VCS) in PyCharm. These videos are equally as relevant to PhpStorm as they are to PyCharm, as the two...
View ArticleGit Questions – How do I switch branches without losing my work?
Git can be hard, particularly if you’ve been dropped in at the deep end and are only used to working in a specific way, so it’s our intention to address how to accomplish certain version control tasks...
View ArticleCloning From GitHub
In the third video in our series, Trisha Gee and myself look at how you clone your own copy of a repository from GitHub. This is really useful if you’d like to contribute to an open source project, or...
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Taking control of PhpStorm updates
PhpStorm updates are usually patch-based: they are applied to the existing installation and only require you to restart the IDE. Due to the current limitations of the update system, these patches can...
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Editor-based Rest Client
Among other features introduced in 2017.3 EAP we mentioned the editor-based REST client, which offers a new approach to working with web APIs. Earlier, you could run your requests with the REST client...
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Connecting to Deployment Servers and Remote Interpreters with SSH-Agent
When you work with remote servers, a common and recommended security measure is to use SSH key pairs for authentication. Our friends at PyCharm have prepared a great blog post on the topic. It explains...
View ArticleInstall PhpStorm with Snaps
Exciting news for Linux users: you can now use snaps to install PhpStorm builds. Snaps will update your app automatically, and you’ll always have a fresh PhpStorm build right out of the oven. Snaps are...
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Integrating Composer command line tool with PhpStorm
Built-in Command Line Tool support plugin provides autocompletion and documentation for any command line based tools. It needs just an xml commands description to support new tool. We plan to add...
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SQL support and Database tools
As you work with databases in your project, there are quite a lot of routine tasks that have to be performed on a regular basis. However, now there is a great way to do it right from your IDE. You can...
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Find your way around your code
You constantly move around your project – switching between editor tabs, navigating to files, directories, classes, functions, comments, declarations, and so on and so forth. It’s easy to lose...
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Navigate your code with bookmarks
While coding you continuously move from one part of your code to another, switching between classes, functions, files, etc. You have to keep in mind so many places in the code that you are currently...
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PhpStorm Type Inference and Mocking Frameworks
Recently, we received a question on Twitter asking about how PhpStorm handles type inference when working with mocking frameworks. Imagine having the following two classes: When writing a unit test for...
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Continuous Integration for PHP using TeamCity
If you have multiple team members, you should be doing Continuous Integration (CI). By building the desired output artifacts on a frequent basis and analyzing their quality using unit tests and code...
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Rapid File Creation with File Templates
Many different files are created in the course of development, and the bigger your project grows, the more files it involves. However, most files are typical and can contain pre-defined information you...
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Using GitHub without leaving PhpStorm
In a previous post we saw how PhpStorm handles Version Control Systems (VCS). A very popular VCS is Git, driven by the collaboration that’s possible using GitHub. In this post, we’ll explore several...
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Quickstart with Docker in PhpStorm
So, you’ve decided to try something new today and started a project from scratch. Your first step will be to set up a development environment: at the bare minimum, you’d want to run a web server and a...
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HTTP Client in PhpStorm Overview
When developing a web service, you would usually test it by sending all kinds of HTTP requests to it and examining what’s returned. In PhpStorm, you can do this directly in the code editor. In this...
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