{"id":18791,"date":"2015-12-18T02:01:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T16:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=18791"},"modified":"2016-01-02T08:25:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T22:25:24","slug":"phpstorm-ide-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/phpstorm-ide-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"PHPStorm IDE Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/PHPStorm\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"PHPStorm IDE Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/PHPStorm\/phpstorm-0of.jpg\" title=\"PHPStorm IDE Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\"   \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHPStorm IDE Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Unlike compiled software code, PHP code is often coded simply with the use of a good text editor.   That doesn&#8217;t mean programmers are not looking for a good PHP <a target=_blank rirle='Integrated DEvelopment Environment information from Wikipedia ... thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Integrated_development_environment'>IDE<\/a> if it comes along.  Today, we are going to talk, for the first time at this blog, about a great IDE to use with PHP based projects.  It is called <a target=_blank title='PHPStorm landing page' href='https:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/phpstorm\/'>PHPStorm<\/a> for good reason, as it is jam packed full of functionality and features, such as &#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>PHP Code Editor<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>PHP 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 &#038; 7 support<\/li>\n<li>smart code completion<\/li>\n<li>syntax highlighting<\/li>\n<li>extended code formatting configuration<\/li>\n<li>on-the-fly error checking<\/li>\n<li>code folding<\/li>\n<li>language mixture support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Debugging, Testing and Profiling<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>context-relevant local variables and user-defined watches<\/li>\n<li>edit values on the fly<\/li>\n<li>remote debugging for your server<\/li>\n<li>debug in multiple sessions simultaneously<\/li>\n<li>keep debugging session alive while moving between pages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>HTML\/CSS\/JavaScript Editor<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>DOM-based, browser-specific completion<\/li>\n<li>live editing preview<\/li>\n<li>utilize all the power of Emmet (formerly Zen Coding)<\/li>\n<li>JavaScript refactorings available are Rename, Extract Variable\/Function, Inline Variable\/Function, Move\/Copy, Safe Delete, Extract embedded script into file<\/li>\n<li>automatic compilation\/transpilation of modern web development languages to JavaScript (from CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Dart, etc) or CSS (from Sass, SCSS, Less, Stylus, Compass, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>JavaScript debugger<\/li>\n<li>auto-fixes for such problems as: missing required attributes, invalid attributes or illegal values, wrong references to files in links, duplicate attributes, invalid CSS selector format, invalid CSS properties, unused CSS class definitions, invalid local anchors<\/li>\n<li>Angular 2, TSLint, JSLint\/JSHint, Node.js, Flow support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Development Environment<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>version control for Git, Subversion, Mercurial, Perforce, CVS, TFS supported<\/li>\n<li>tools and code assistance features for work with database and SQL in your projects<\/li>\n<li>analyze schema with UML diagrams<\/li>\n<li>track any changes made to your source files, protecting you from any accidental losses or modifications<\/li>\n<li>helps developers to understand and change their code by providing editable UML class diagrams for PHP code<\/li>\n<li>plugin repository contains 250+ IDE plugins of all kinds<\/li>\n<li>Vagrant is a handy tool, allowing you to share a development virtual machine, is natively integrated<\/li>\n<li>REST Client is integrated in the IDE<\/li>\n<li>SSH Console let you connect to any remote machine and perform various actions via SSH<\/li>\n<li>Google App Engine applications for PHP development along with ability to delegate routine deployment tasks to the IDE<\/li>\n<li>Composer (dependency manager for PHP) is supported<\/li>\n<li>pre-configured command completion for various external command-line tools, including Composer, Symfony console, Zend Framework 2 tool (ZFTool), Zend Framework 1 tool, Drush for Drupal, Tools based on Symfony console (Laravel, Doctrine)<\/li>\n<li>ability to use a remote interpreter instead of a local one with PHP based application on real server or a virtualized one created with Vagrant<\/li>\n<li>completes and checks standard tags, properties, target names, path attribute values in build files, via Phing<\/li>\n<li>same integrated development environment on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux with your single key<\/li>\n<li>Docker plugin allows user to add Docker support to existing projects, view logs, manage Docker containers<\/li>\n<li>if ToDo list is in an issue\/bug tracking system, you can configure PhpStorm to work with the issues without switching from the IDE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ol>\n<p> &#8230; and more features can be read about from the <a target=_blank title='PHPStorm landing page' href='https:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/phpstorm\/'>PHPStorm<\/a> website, by JetBrains.  The information above comes from the website.<\/p>\n<p>With today&#8217;s <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/PHPStorm\/\" title='click picture'>slideshow<\/a>, we take up our introductory look at PHPStorm after the install (onto a MacBook Pro laptop running a local Apache MAMP web server) and download, opening some existant PHP code, as a PHPStorm project, which we then Run (or Execute).<\/p>\n<p>We hope this is food for thought for you, in months not starting with M (because we want to remind you to <a target=_blank title='?' href='http:\/\/www.enotes.com\/shakespeare-quotes\/beware-ides-march'>&#8220;beware the ides of March&#8221;<\/a> &#8230; boom, boom), using the great PHP language in a more integrated and dynamic environment, to hand coded, text edited PHP.<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d18791' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d18791\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/php\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d18791' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike compiled software code, PHP code is often coded simply with the use of a good text editor. 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