PHPStorm

PHPStorm

Recommended IDE (proprietary).

• Demo Video: https://streamable.com/nnqzg
• Demo Video element() autocomplete (NEW): https://streamable.com/ixrbg
• Live Demo: https://youtu.be/a7EQvHkIb60?t=2119 (+ end of the video again)

Versions

• 2018.02: OK
• 2018.03: Broken trait support!
• 2019.01: OK
• 2019.02: OK
• 2019.03: OK
• 2020.01: OK (!)

Must have

In Editor => General

• Strip trailing spaces on save for "Modified lines".
• Ensure line feed at file end of Save

In Editor => File Types

• Add *.ctp to PHP (<= CakePHP 3.x only)

In Editor => Inspections => PHP

• Code smell: Too many parameters in function declaration
• Code style: uncheck Unecessary fully qualified name (we need this for doc blocks)
• General: Static method called as dynamic, uncheck if you don't want to be alerted about PHPUnit code smells.
• PHPDoc: Missing PHPDoc comment
• Probable bugs: Assignment in condition

In Editor => CodeStyle => PHP

• PHPDoc: Blank line before the first tag
• PHPDoc => Generated Doc Blocks: Use fully-qualified class names
• Blank Lines => Before return statement [1]
• Code Conversion => Array Declaration Style: Force short declaration style
• Code Conversion => Array Declaration Style: Add a comma after last element in multiline array

in Plugins:

• Add EditorConfig plugin.
• Add https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9927-deep-assoc-completion plugin (super useful!)

Further links:

• @return void template

Nice to have

In Languages & Frameworks => PHP => Servers add a new Server with the current (.local) domain. Use the path mapping if you are using a vagrant box like "cakebox".

In Tools => External Tools you can set up cs-sniff and cs-fix and then assign them a keyboard shortcut.