How to setup a local server (in a virtual machine) with Vagrant in PHPStorm
This is part 1 of a series on How to get a modern workflow in PHP development. Part 2 is here: How to debug code on a remote server (or in vagrant box) with PHPStorm. What is Vagrant ? Vagrant is a...
View ArticleA PHPStorm shortcuts cheat sheet (for Windows, Mac OS and Linux)
Shortcuts that will make you life so much easier! Please note: Frontend Devs might be irritated by the weird CTRL-Y-shortcut, which SHOULD undo an undo (like in Photoshop etc.) but in PHPStorm this...
View ArticleIgnore .idea folder from git in PHPStorm
By default (?) PHPStorm will create a hidden folder named .idea directly within your project, containing user-specific stuff like chosen PHP version, syntax highlighting settings etc. This can be quite...
View ArticleIncrease your HTML / CSS coding speed with EMMET
Codeninja.com just published a very interesting article about the excellent free code-completion/code-generation tool EMMET, which allows you to create huge HTML or CSS constructs by simple typing some...
View ArticleVote for “Hack” for HipHop/HHMV support (future style PHP) in PHPStorm 8
“Hack” will come. And “Hack” will change PHP, definitly. In case you never heard of it, have a look into PHP 5.6 announced, statically typed (!) “new” PHP announced by Facebook devs. It’s a “better...
View ArticleKiller-feature in PHPStorm: Search everywhere
A short but massive productivity improvement: The new “search everywhere” feature in PHPStorm 7.1+! Simply double-tap the SHIFT key and type what you are searching for. The crawler is really...
View ArticleSitepoint asks for your favourite PHP IDE – take part!
Bruno Skvorc ask for your favourite PHP IDE in this new article on Sitepoint. If you use one, then take part, it’s important to encourage others to use a proper IDE rather than fiddling around with...
View ArticleA perfect video tutorial to get started with xdebug in PHPStorm
Laracast just published an excellent short tutorial on how to get install xdebug in a local environment and how to integrate it into PHPStorm without fiddling around too much. It is one of these tiny...
View ArticleGet Github’s syntax highlighting colors in PHPStorm
I really really like the colors on GitHub’s code previews but couldn’t find any themes that copy that in a beautiful – and readable way -, so here’s my personal try on that:...
View ArticlePHPStorm 8 has just been released
The excellent PHP IDE PHPStorm just had a major release these days: Version 8 is out, coming with latest PHP 5.5 / 5.6 language features, language-in-language-detection code completion (PHP in HTML,...
View ArticleWhen PHPStorm’s cache eats up your harddisk space
I recently stumbled over this: By default PHPStorm (obviously in all versions since 1.0) creates a local history of all your “changes”. And this cache size is not really limited and also does not reset...
View ArticleGet Github’s code colors in PHPStorm (2014 style)
I really love the colors on GitHub’s code previews but couldn’t find any themes that copy that in a beautiful – and readable way -, so I’ve built my own version back in 2013. In the meantime GitHub has...
View ArticleWhat’s new in PHPStorm 9
PHPStorm 9 has just been released a few days ago, and as a PHP developer you should definitly give it a try. This new release does not come with a dramatic game-changer feature, but with lots of deep...
View ArticlePHPStorm: 42 Tips and Tricks (47min video talk by Mikhail Vink at Dutch PHP...
To be honest I’ve not seen the clip yet, but it sounds so awesome and everybody is upvoting it. Have fun :) Random articlesWhat’s new in PHPStorm 9Sitepoint asks for your favourite PHP IDE – take...
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