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phpStorm, a true delight to work with

May 01
Posted on May 1st, 2010 In category Development  PHP 
By mvriel Tagged as code completion  Eclipse  git  ide  netbeans  PHP  phpstorm 

During my career as a PHP developer (hobbyist and professional) I have tried a multitude of IDEs and tools to write code in. Every IDE I have found thus far did great things but had their downsides. It is with phpStorm that I can send at least some of those problems to the past

Let me start at the beginning. Where I once started with Notepad, Notepad++, VI and alike; I later switched to Eclipse (with the PDT extension). This switch was great as it really increased my productivity by offering all these great things like code completion.

Alas, every good thing must have a downside. Eclipse proved to be a sluggish memory hogging beast. The added features still made up for using it but as time went by I grew more and more frustrated with waiting for my code completion window to show (for example). After some time I tried Netbeans (it was actually Stefan Koopmanschap who urged me to try it). This IDE offers the same amount of features for the same price as Eclipse PDT: free. Yet the big difference between the two IDEs is that Netbeans offers more speed and less memory usage.

Now, you might be wondering: fun and all, but what has this to do with phpStorm?

Well, it was only after a few months working with Netbeans that I read a tweet in my timeline by Kana (MissYeh) about a new kid on the block. You probably guessed it: phpStorm. Even with the added improvements by Netbeans I was still unsure whether this was it. The memory footprint was lower than Eclipse but still high and I still had to wait for certain actions.

Having gotten that little push by MissYeh I decided to take a look at that new shiny IDE and found a true gem! phpStorm offers so much more than Netbeans and Eclipse in terms of performance, memory but also functionality. Allow me to list some things:

  • Native git integration
  • Method Usage search
  • Being able to add types to variables in i.e. foreach loops
  • more advanced docblock parsing and code interpretation
  • the ability to view ‘blame’ information in the IDE
  • and much more

It is truly wonderful!

But alas, as I have said before, nothing is all good. Currently the project is still in Beta and some bugs are to be encountered. Memory usage is great when starting the app but after a day’s work you really want to restart the IDE. And something which might be akward compared to the other IDEs mentioned here: it is not for free. Currently the application is offered for free as beta but once the full version comes out it will go commercial and a licence fee is required (though they state on their blogs that the prices are to be kept reasonable).

Summary

For me, phpStorm is despite its beta bugs a more complete and easier application to work with. The fact that it will not be free is regretful but I would gladly shelf out some money for a product like this. If you have not heard of it or tried it: I really recommend it!

Thank you for listening!

23 Responses to “phpStorm, a true delight to work with”

Ben Otero, on May 5th, 2010 at 22:38 Said:

You read my mind. I’ve been using phpStorm for about a month now having switched between just code editors (Coda, Espresso) and IDEs (Netbeans, Aptana). The memory issues with the IDEs were ridiculous and doing more than just simple edits to PHP files in the text editors became a bit tedious.

I too will gladly shell out the money for phpStorm when it goes commercial.

Henry, on May 6th, 2010 at 10:39 Said:

How is it compared with Zend Studio?

Mike Schinkel, on July 11th, 2010 at 10:14 Said:

Code editors are nice, but w/o a debugger they are just a waste of time for me. I too have been using PhpStorm since early beta and can’t imaging using anything else for PHP on at the Mac at this point.

Lavina Vessey, on July 21st, 2010 at 16:47 Said:

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Edson Medina, on July 28th, 2010 at 01:46 Said:
  • Native git integration

There’s a module for netbeans for that.

  • Method Usage search

Netbean does it natively (crtl + f7)

  • Being able to add types to variables in i.e. foreach loops

What do you mean?

  • more advanced docblock parsing and code interpretation

Not sure about that.

  • the ability to view ‘blame’ information in the IDE

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potherca, on February 7th, 2011 at 12:08 Said:

@edson If netbeans has the ability to autocomplete array keys, show me where it is! (and autocomplete for files in css/js would be nice as well ;-)

Nicolas BUI, on May 5th, 2011 at 14:49 Said:

I do not use PhpStorm at its full potential for PHP yet, but overall, it’s much better than Eclipse or Netbeans.

But something for sure, if you are a JavaScript coder too, you have in hand the most powerful JavaScript IDE out there. I’ve try all javascript IDE available, none can rival with PhpStorm/WebStorm.

Evert, on May 6th, 2011 at 15:13 Said:

After many years of being frustrated about there not being a good IDE for web development i was very enthousiastic about phpstorm as I discovered it last year. But as I use it more and more, the product begins to show cracks…as do they all. Sigh. Why does no one create a good IDE for webdesigner/developers? Don’t get me wrong, phpstorm is still the best out there, covering more basic needs for our job, but it simply doesn’t seem to understand our needs down to the core leaving us wanting yet again.

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