

There is still some room for improvement: the project file browser is pretty rudimentary (doesn't show timestamps or file sizes, D'OH!), and the built-in FTP is sometimes a little flakey, but in whole, it's a pretty amazing tool for the web development professional.


Select just about any identifier, and it highlights every other instance it also highlights mistyped or invalid identifiers, validates in near real time, graphically shows the scope of every nested element, matches opening/closing tags and braces… if you pay attention to all the hints it gives you, it's nearly impossible to write wrong code. Powerful code refactoring: change a filename, function name, variable, class or ID throughout your project. PhpStorm is an incredibly comprehensive integrated development environment. Optional file watchers for compiling preprocessor languages like HAML, Sass/Less, CoffeeScript, etc. A smart and complete IDE for working in PHP. Syntax highlighting and autocompletion for *everything*: tags, attributes, classes, IDs, filenames/paths, just about every thing you type, and in just about every dev language known to mankind. WinRAR/7-Zip for Windows Zipeg/iZip/UnRarX for Mac 7-Zip/PeaZip for Linux. I've been a professional web developer for 18 years, and I've tried just about every editor and IDE out there for the Mac, and trust me when I say that for sheer power and functionality, nothing else even comes close. Once the file is downloaded, please make sure that you unzip or extract the.
