# CGX#12: PHPStorm

[PHPStorm](https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/)
is a highly professional
[PHP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP)
[IDE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_development_environment)
working on most OS.

Others stand no change against the product from house
[Jetbeain](https://www.jetbrains.com/).

After bigger and bigger challenges, disappointments, and limitations,
despite being very familiar in Eclipse,
I really had to give PHPStorm a chance; and it is a **breathtaking** experience.

In this video we discuss Jetbrains wording and explore the most outstanding and useful features of this fabulous IDE.

Ir is the best programming software i have ever used,
and definately it *is* the **best** PHP IDE on planet earth. - Their own slogan!

It leaves almost no wishes open, and to repharase it, i was and am still baffled a lot.

To me it feels like a whole new world...

Amazing Work! - gizmore


## CGX#12 PHPStorm: License

The license and *paywall*(?) always made PHPStorm a no-go for me, but this is **NOT** the case.
There are very fleixble license models, which are totally fair.

 - Preview (maybe re-new?)
 - Lifelong (every licensed version)
 - Monthly (Two IDEs)
 - Personal (fair)
 - Company (fair)
 - Commercial use allowed (always)
 - Reasonable EULA (your data seems good)
 

## CGX#12 PHPStorm: Wording

Some general PHPStorm terminalogy.

 - `Indentions` - Code Whitespaces
 - `Inspections` - Code Validators
 - `Formatting` - All of that!
 - `Completion` - Source generation
 - `Refactoring` - Code alterations
 
 - `Excluded` - No Formatting, ...?
 - `SourceRoot` - But Completion!


## CGX#12 PHPStorm: Features and Tricks

In case you are coming from Eclipse, which does not matter, might find these tips useful.

 - Eclipse problems (php8, bugs, performance, features)
 - JVM (stack, threads, heap) (*win10* **crashes**)
 - IDE Migration (Eclipse, Notepad++, shortcuts)
 - Folders (Excluded and SourceRoot)
 - Debugger (xDebug, BuiltIn)
 - Profiler (xDebug, Viewer)
 - Colors (DarkMode, Light+OSMode) 
 - Collaboration (like teams?)
 - Git (done right, of course)
 - Spell Checker (not my fav)
 - Code Cleanup (wow)
 - Code Completion (very fast)
 - Code Generation (unused by me)
 - Code Refactoring (awesome)
 - Other Filtypes (Markdown, JS, CSS, Composer)
 - Settings (Search, Highlighting)
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 - Questions?

 
## CGX#12 PHPStorm: Plugins

All these well implemented features do not require a single plugin, **but**, ...
i even found some very interesting ones.

 - [bytecode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bytecode) [analyzer](https://github.com/kalessil/phpinspectionsea) :O
 - More?


## CGX#12 PHPStorm: GDOv7 Inregration.

Own experience with [phpgdo](https://github.com/gizmore/phpgdo).

 - Many hours of configuration, **then**: ([PHPStorm profile]())
 - More than **30!** *real* **bugs** found with ease
 - Finally experiment again with PHP performance
 - Solve **all** Eclipse problems without a single plugin
 - Almost **zero** missing features or bigger issues.
 - Very polished, flexible and usable UI.
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 ## CGX#12 PHPStorm: Missing Features
 
 Features i could *not* / or **never** find anywhere, Kinda feedback.
 
  - No RegEx modifiers (*never needed*)
  - RegEx (Search history a bit tedious?)
  - git commit file list (no order/sort/dir setting)
  - Intentations (separate HTML settings)
  - Jetbrains User-Profiles should be able to upload a `settings.zip`
  - 
  
  
## CGX#12 PHPStorm: Questions?

 - *Wwdd*