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Re: PhpStorm 7.0 final release is here

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Post by V-2 » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 2:38 PM UTC

conradfr wrote: post #24

Just as I was going to install PhpStorm 6 on my new machine at work, cool. Most people in my team are not convinced PhpStorm brings anything valuable compared to NetBeans, Eclipse, Sublime2 or even vim. Maybe I will try once again with version 7 :)

I only briefly used Eclipse, so I can't comment on that one. I used NetBeans for a few months though. PHPStorm has much superior refactoring, it beats NB hands down. This by itself was for me enough of a reason to switch.

I also had some issues with NetBeans being inresponsive, or some functionalities breaking for no clear reason (like "go to definition" wouldn't work anymore) etc.

My working copy was on a mounted drive - which sucks, but it didn't depend on me - and whenever NB had a problem saving some file, it would make it look as if the file was saved anyway, and I ended up losing changes.

On the top of that, its SVN integration (I've switched to Git since, but I never looked back at NetBeans, so I can't compare) was ridiculously slow.

It just feels buggy.

Re: PhpStorm 7.0 final release is here

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Post by lilpirate » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 2:38 PM UTC

PHPStorm is cool. Haven't looked back after switching to it almost an year ago. Worth the money. Plus, they offer discounted licenses for students and open source projects!

Re: PhpStorm 7.0 final release is here

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Post by FireBringer » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 2:40 PM UTC

joaomsa wrote: post #13

thejosh wrote: post #3

How are the fonts with Ubuntu (Linux)? Last time I used it a year ago they were terrible.

You can make java programs like all JetBrains IDEs use the OS native font rendering, just add the following snippet to /etc/profile.d/jre.sh and source or relogin to take effect. export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Dswing.aatext=true'

Nope, doesn't work, I just tried it.

Eclipse default: http://i.imgur.com/MKCUJR8.png

IDEA with your JAVA_OPTIONS: http://i.imgur.com/UGDVhin.png

Re: PhpStorm 7.0 final release is here

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Post by FridayWithJohn » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 2:49 PM UTC

The best IDE imo. The only extra thing I add is the Symfony2 skin. Here is a link to it: https://github.com/cordoval/Symfony2Colors/blob/master/READM...

Re: PhpStorm 7.0 final release is here

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Post by Navarr » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 2:57 PM UTC

clone1018 wrote: post #8

jtreminio wrote: post #6

I've been using PhpStorm for a few years now. After going through several time-wasting periods of trying out every IDE I could get my hands on to see what I liked, I ended up and have stayed with PhpStorm because it is hands down the most feature-full, fast, stable and up-to-date IDE for PHP (and HTML/JS!) development. It also does not hurt that they're going on a Vagrant rampage and have been showing off my app, htt…

I always remember the name as "PHPuppet" :(

I always pronounce it "PU PHP Pet." Which I guess is logical because elephants.

Re: PhpStorm 7.0 final release is here

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Post by jtreminio » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 2:59 PM UTC

Navarr wrote: post #35

clone1018 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always remember the name as "PHPuppet" :(

I always pronounce it "PU PHP Pet." Which I guess is logical because elephants.

I recently decided the correct pronunciation is "puff-et"... like "elephpant"!

Re: PhpStorm 7.0 final release is here

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Post by taude » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 3:00 PM UTC

I use PyCharm, which has most all of WebStorm in it. I'm a huge fan of JetBrains cross-platform dev tools. I still use other text-editors often for one-off edits, but most my big team projects get edited with PyCharm.

Re: PhpStorm 7.0 final release is here

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Post by taude » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 3:01 PM UTC

ye wrote: post #26

flashmob wrote: post #21

I'm a huge fan of PhpStorm. However, I'm wondering what's the purpose of having vagrant in an IDE? Vagrant is easy to work already, just 'vagrant up' and you're away. What problem does the IDE solve? And looking at the interface, the 'halt' button is too close to the 'destroy' button. Might have an accidental click there... It would be cool if they had an interface such as WAMP Server, where you can select the php ve…

> just 'vagrant up' and you're away No, it's 1) Switch to the console 2) Vagrant up 3) Wait for the results 4) Switch back Instead of one key press and watching it run in the bottom console while you're writing the code.

It's also nice when you have multiple projects open, each with their own Vagrant settings, to let the IDE manage each one.

Re: PhpStorm 7.0 final release is here

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Post by zuppy » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 3:15 PM UTC

conradfr wrote: post #24

Just as I was going to install PhpStorm 6 on my new machine at work, cool. Most people in my team are not convinced PhpStorm brings anything valuable compared to NetBeans, Eclipse, Sublime2 or even vim. Maybe I will try once again with version 7 :)

I'm switching a lot of branches and Eclipse used to freeze for a few minutes until it indexed the directory. That doesn't happen in phpStorm. That's only one of the many reasons to use it :-)

Re: PhpStorm 7.0 final release is here

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Post by kayoone » Tue, Oct 22, 2013, 3:20 PM UTC

wnevets wrote: post #25

Every time I try a full fledged IDE I always fall back to a text editor like sublime-text. Some habits are hard to break.

completely reverted for me. Whenever i try to work with vim/sublime on larger projects i feel so crippled without the advanced debugging and refactoring features that i will go back to an IDE. With PhpStorm i didnt feel the urge to change again yet though ;)