PhpStorm – Installation

Recorded: February 27, 2018

PhpStorm is a professional integrated development environment (IDE) which is specifically made for PHP-powered projects. Right out of the box, you get the WordPress Coding Standard and WordPress Core documentation built right into the environment. There are no plugins you need to install and you get full control of the key mappings.

PhpStorm is packed with productive and automated workflow features that will save you a ton of time, frustrations, and money. For example:

• With one keystroke, bam, you can reformat an entire file to the WordPress Coding Standard or whatever standard you define in your project.
• The refactoring tools automate refactoring processes.
• Define where the phpcs.xml.dist file is in your project, and bam, it will alert you to violations as you are writing and testing your code.
• Terminal is built right in.
• Debugging tools are baked into it too.
• PHP, WordPress, JavaScript, etc. autocompletions and hints help you to know what arguments you need to define.
• and so much more.

Yes, this IDE costs you money. But for less than $10 per month, it will save that much and then some. There’s a reason why the top engineers in our community use it for PHP projects.

In this episode, let’s walk through the installation process.