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Aug 30, 2010 PhpStorm & WebStorm 2.0 EAP build 96.1061

One last warning: there’s only one day left before 50% discount special offer will end.

In the meantime we bring you a fresh weekly builds of PhpStorm & WebStorm 2.0. You’ll get several new features and important bugfixes, so all users of previous EAP are urged to update. Most notable are:

  • Mercurial DVCS support added
  • LESS support added. Note that we don’t have any build process both for SASS & LESS yet
  • PHP namespaces got reference resolution, usages search and rename support. Note that namespaces are still not honored in class resolution
  • PHP editor got Code | Generate | Getters and setters
  • Inspection performance improved, especially on batch runs (Code | Inspect code)
  • XML editing performance dramatically improved for projects with lots of xi:include tags
  • Significant bug fixes, check project issue tracker for more complete changelog

Please note that ALL of this is work in progress and will undergo series of both technical and cosmetic changes during next months.

Download PhpStorm & WebStorm 2.0 EAP build 96.1061 for your platform from project EAP page.

Develop with pleasure!
-JetBrains Web IDE Team


Aug 27, 2010 Remote Debugging in PhpStorm

With PhpStorm and Xdebug you can easily debug your web application right on your server using Remote Debugging. It’s a very convenient way to examine and fix little annoying bugs that often come up very suddenly in a production environment. This video provides a step-by-step guide on how to configure Remote Debugging in PhpStorm using Xdebug.

Remote Debugging in PhpStorm from Egor Malyshev on Vimeo.

Watch it, get your tools ready and go fight those bugs! We’re looking forward to your feedback, as always.

Also check out more PhpStorm video tutorials.

Aug 24, 2010 PhpStorm & WebStorm 2.0 Early Access Program started

We’re happy to announce first public builds of PhpStorm & WebStorm 2.0

While our roadmap is pretty extensive, in first EAP build you’ll get:

  • PHP refactorings: Smart introduce field / constant, inline variable
  • PHP inspections: Control flow / Unreachable statement & Wrong catch clauses order, Probable bug / Wrong string concatenation operator, Type compatibility / Invalid foreach() argument type
  • PHP structure view window was reworked and now offers various sorting and filtering options
  • Streamlined UI of IntellJ platform version X. You’ll notice compact scrollbars with overlayed inspector info, more native UI on Mac OS X. Windows and Linux users still may want to go to Settings | Look and Feel and selectWindows/GTK+
  • Git support with built-in history views, cherrypicking and easy branch switching
  • Injected language fragments editor. Note that is will not work with PHP concatenated string expressions yet
  • RELAX NG support with code inspection
  • Lots of bugfixes and improvements in all subsystems, check project issue tracker for complete changelog.

Please note that ALL of this is work in progress and will undergo series of both technical and cosmetic changes during next months.

Download PhpStorm & WebStorm 2.0 EAP build 96.1009 for your platform from project EAP page.

Develop with pleasure!
-JetBrains Web IDE Team

P.S. You’ve only several days left before 50% discount special offer will end.