PhpStorm Reviews

Summary: PhpStorm boasts a clean, modern, and highly customizable user interface. The layout is intuitive, with a smart project navigator, easy access to code, version control, terminal, and database tools. It has a similar feel to other JetBrains IDEs, so if you're already familiar with one of their tools (like IntelliJ IDEA or WebStorm), you’ll feel right at home

Positive: Clean and customizable interface.

Multiple themes and color schemes for personal preference.

Simple yet powerful layout for managing files, tools, and navigation.

Support for multiple project views and easy file navigation.

Negative: The sheer number of features and options might overwhelm new users.

Some UI elements may seem cluttered when working with larger projects, but this can be customized.

Summary: PhpStorm is one of the few advanced IDE's for php which can be used for enterprise development. It has lots of useful features and is a delight to use.

Positive: Php lacks many advanced IDE like other popular languages but PhpStorm definitely fills the void. It supports all major frameworks and features intelligent autocomplete that understands your code. It has built in developer tools and database support for even most advanced php development. It is also quite affordable for enterprise development.

Negative: Unlike other tools from Jetbrains it has no Community edition, so beginners or individual users might consider that as a big con.

Summary: PhpStorm is a premium & dedicated IDE which is perfect for PHP developers. It has one of the best looking interface and has tons of quality of life features which ease the development process.

Positive: Easy to use & user friendly interface.
Autocomplete feature.
In-app terminal & ssh support.
Supports front end HTML , CSS & JS files.
Tons of customization options.
Add-ons to support different PHP frameworks.

Negative: Expensive yearly price.
Resource Intensive - takes long time to load.

Summary: Overall, PhpStorm is of the best IDE to develop web projects. It's all the features are made in a way that it helps during the development process.

Positive: - The auto-suggestion feature is quite accurate and comes very handy while coding on a big project.
- The color themes can be easily customizable according to the user preference.
- It supports Git and version control.
- It in built assistance feature helps in highlighting errors and give suggestions in real-time.

Negative: - The code initialization and debugging takes a lot of time.
- It can be sluggish sometimes when compiling a large code base.

Summary: Very frustrating; it tries to be too smart, and it is not.

Positive: Debugging from browser.
Decent support, responsive and to the point.
Some search features are good once you learn to use them.

Negative: A lot.

I've thought I'd switch over from phpEd, but honestly, the time I'm spending on trying to figure out how to disable these annoying automatic things, and the amount of time I'm spending communicating with the support is insane.

I've easily lost days worth of work-time already.

It does a lot of things to "help"; but they don't help but hinder.
Some of it can be disabled, some can not.
But even those that can be disabled; good luck finding these.

Also the key shortcuts are rather weird so plenty of time to reconfigure those.

The lack of ability to fold comments only, or open to methods only; no helping this.

Then there's the error highlighting; it highlights essentially whole files, just because it just cannot figure out either the smarty syntax(!), or the code structure.

There are plenty more, I'm not going to bother to detail it all out.

There are things that are in the dev queue for many years now, some would help - but it seems these will never get done.