Jetbrains PHP Storm Released
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Sunday, 30th May 2010
I have been trying out the pre-release versions of PHP Storm for quite some time. It's a development studio for PHP that contains lots of the features you'd find in other Jetbrains products. If you're a Microsoft developer, you have probably heard of Resharper - a Visual Studio plugin for code re-factoring and code quality - or if you're a Java developer you may have encountered their IntelliJ IDEA integrated development environment. Well, after trying it for a few months, Jetbrains have officially released it.
If you've been using a text editor to write your PHP code, you're missing out on some awesome features, such as code-completion, code quality checking, powerful re-factoring support. Ever spent ages trying to find that error in your PHP that turns out to be a mis-spelled variable? That will never happen to you again if you use PHP.
For me, PHP Storm is to PHP what Visual Studio is to C# (or whatever flavour of .NET you use). It's a powerful and full-featured development studio with every feature imaginable.
The best news is, it's available to early-adopters at a very special rate of just £40 for a personal license - and you can try it for 45 days for free before you decide. Just visit http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/ to find out more and download a trial.
Jetbrains also do tools for Java developers, Web developers, Ruby developers, .NET developers, Python developers and more. From my experience of their .NET and PHP tools, they seem to "get" what you need to achieve with the tools and so they unobtrusively help you to write better applications.