Let's click on that to help make our choice and we can choose the one that appeals to us the most. To help us select what we would like there's a link to 'Click to preview'. If you select Default the next selct box offers: Darcula has preset editor colors and fonts. The next select box allows for the IDE theme selection, either Default or Darcula.

For the Keymap scheme you have the choices:Ĭhoose whichever you're most familiar or comfortable with. Now we are presented with the PS initial configuration dialog. We are going to choose the 3rd option for now and click “ok”. Then we are presented with the license agreement screen, click the checkbox to “Accept all terms of the license' and click “ok”. Now we are presented with a license dialog with the following choices: Since we don't have a previous version, we're simply going to click on the second choice which is, 'I do not have a previous version of PS or I do not want to import my settings.' Are you sure you want to open it?' Just click open and the app will present you with a dialog allowing you to import settings from a previous version of PS. When you first launch an app under Mac OSX, you get a warning, 'PhpStorm.app is an application downloaded from the internet. I usually drag the app to my system tray as well which allows me to launch the app just a little faster when I'm working. Go to and download the free trial Click on the PhpStorm-7.1.3.dmg file in your downloads folder to mount the disk image Click and drag the PS icon into the Applications folder as you would any mac application. Installing it may be a bit daunting, so I hope this discussion will help you tip toe around any gotchas, there are a couple:

At only $99 for individual developers, what more could you want? If you’re running Php5.4 it can launch the built in web server for debugging, ftp capability, a database browser, as well as a terminal and ssh sessions, an event log, Vagrant and Composer integration, deployment capabilities, a tools window, and lots of editor tweaks and configurable key maps, it’s also phpunit aware. It boasts version control integration, a debugger with logging and a profiler.

Well, I believe Jetbrains has come as close as anybody has so far with PHPStorm, still can’t turn on the hot water but almost anything else you can think of is here. I’ve been searching for the “perfect” IDE for a very long time now (more than 20 years), I’ve seen some that were really close but not cheap, some were free (eclipse) but lacking, I was looking for everything but the kitchen sink.

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