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24 pointstomcorrigan10 comments

YES! I love PhpStorm, one of the best IDE's around for PHP development so I am glad to see they've addressed a few major issues as well as added in support for PHP 5.4 goodness amongst other nice additions like Node.JS.

I will never buy any single product from jetbrains again. The last one I bought is rubymine 4. It is buggy and slow. I bought it for the deployment features but turns out I was completely wrong as they didn't support capistrano. now they do (supposedly) but I have to pay to upgrade to the 4.5 this is not happening, there is no replacement for the command line and a simple editor such as sublime text, textmate,..

I would never deny that Jetbrains ui's are buggy, but a lot of the tools that the IDE provides are slick as heck. I've tried popular editors like textmate and sublime, and Jetbrains' tools' are far better in my opinion. Some of my favorites pieces are it's super fast indexed search, the diff engine for merging conflicts, file history with annotations, and nice version control integration. It makes it very easy to traverse through a large legacy code base.

Some downsides are different command shortcuts across the different products (command+shift+f vs ctrl+shift+f) yes I can configure this, but it would be nice if it was more unified. Also, for Rubymine, I would always go back to the command line for certain things ruby based.

SFTP not handling symlinks has been the one headache I've had with PhpStorm recently. Glad to see it getting fixed.

It's also awesome to see Symfony2 support is coming along and more and more ways for the IDE to determine what type a variable is.

I too am most excited about the symfony2 support. Especially with regards to type hinting from the dependency injection container.

I have to say I love using this IDE, I'm doing a lot of PHP now and it's the closest to Visual Studio that I can get.

I'm from the dreamers camp. I would love to use Sublime Text on a regular basis. But, it's core mentality of keeping things slim forces me to use PHP Storm.

Now, I do like PHP Storm, there are quite a few features that I find useful. Primary of which is the debugger.

Both times I tried PhpStorm I encountered showstopping bugs that were pretty damn obvious.

This was not some free beta, but a product I'm supposed to fork over a license fee for, and hope the issues get solved within a year. That way of doing business is just not on.

Isn't PHPStorm 4.0 still in beta? Or just come off beta recently? Last time I used it, it was quite buggy, and that was only a few months ago.

Now there is 5.0, Firefox has messed up our release versioning.

4 has been released for a bit, I haven't run into any real bugs in quite some time.

5 is just in Early Access, it'll be there for many months to come. Usually when they start an EAP it's pretty beta still.

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