PhpStorm 9 has been released

PhpStorm 9, the new major release of JetBrain’s professional PHP IDE, is now available for download!

PhpStorm 9 is a cross-platform IDE for PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Sass, Less, CoffeeScript, and many other languages. Recent release of PhpStorm 9 brings us improvements and bug fixes. We shall look closely on them below.

PHP language and editing experience

• Advanced code understanding – including:
• • Advanced PHP type inference
  • Parameter refactoring
  • Numerous new inspections and intentions
  • Support for persistent language injections
• Postfix code completion – helps to reduce backward caret jumps
• Partial PHP 7 support
• Other PHP related enhancements – including:
• • Color settings for brackets, braces and parentheses
  • Ability to use PHP surrounds for HTML in PHP files
  • Improved structure view for PHP
  • Formatting, constructor and PHPDoc improvements
  • Support for fluent setters creation
  • Separate PHP constructor editable template

New debugging experience

• Inline debugger for PHP – all live debugging data are now shown directly in the editor
• Debugging workflow – new features include:
• • Import from Deployment action
  • Enhanced debugger config validation
  • PJP servers config shared on project level
  • php.ini can be opened from settings

Remote development

• Remote edit – individual files can be opened directly from the remote host without adding / downloading them to the local project
• Remote tools via remote PHP interpreters – allows you to run your application and tools on a production-like environment

Frameworks, tools and more

• Solarized editor scheme is bundled
• Support for Xdebug 2.3+ profiler
• Improved support for Blade templating engine
• Support for the latest Behat
• Enhanced Twig templating engine
• Additional options for PHP Code Sniffer

Top-notch Web technologies

• Improved JavaScript support – the core of JavaScript support is reworked, improving the indexing of files and response time of features
• Application dependency diagrams – application structure can be visualized and explored with psy-js
• Tracing languages transpiled to JavaScript – spy-js adds support for source maps to trace TypeScript, CoffeeScript or ECMAScript 6 code transpiled to JavaScript
• V8 profiling for Node.js apps – allows capturing and analysing JavaScript engine CPU profiles and heap snapshots for Node.js applications
• Simultaneous tag editing – while editing an opening HTML or XML tag, PhpStorm takes care of the closing one

IDE improvements

• Distraction free mode – minimalistic UI option
• Diff viewer – new option called Oneside viewer, which shows the difference between revisions on one page.When switching between files, the Diff viewer remembers the caret position
• Version control – new features include:
• • Faster loading of the log viewer, and a new Reset Current Branch to Here action
  • Filter by repositories in log viewer
  • Highlighting for commits by the current user
  • Remotes can be defined right in the Push dialog
  • Mercurial: Graft action in the log viewer, ability to close branches in the Branches popup
• Database tools

Other

• HiDPI support for Windows and Linux
• The Welcome screen and New Project wizard are now clearer and more friendly
• Scratch files can now be accessed and managed via the new Scratches tab
• Add multiple selections with the mouse
• Updated look-and-feel of Editor tabs
• Per-project file templates

If you wish to try out the new version of PhpStorm 9, you can download a 30-day trial period from JetBrain’s download page.