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Major frameworks support
Working with frameworks like Symfony, Laravel, Drupal, WordPress, Zend Framework, Magento, Joomla!, CakePHP, and Yii is made easy using PhpStorm.2
All the PHP tools
The editor truly "gets" your code and comprehends its structure, supporting both modern and legacy applications with all of the PHP language's features. The best code completion, refactorings, on-the-fly error prevention, and other features are offered by it.3
Front-end technologies included
Using the available refactorings, debugging, and unit testing, make the most of cutting-edge front-end technologies like HTML 5, CSS, Sass, Less, Stylus, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Emmet, and JavaScript. Because of Live Edit, you can see the changes right away in the browser.4
Built-in developer tools
Thanks to the integration of version control systems, support for remote deployment, databases/SQL, command-line tools, Docker, Composer, REST Client, and many more technologies, you can complete many common activities directly from the IDE.5
PhpStorm = WebStorm + PHP + DB/SQL
PhpStorm has all the capabilities of WebStorm plus full-featured support for PHP and support for databases and SQL.6
Intelligent Coding Assistance
Hundreds of inspections take care of verifying your code as you type, analyzing the whole project. PHPDoc support, code (re)arranger and formatter, quick-fixes, and other features help you write neat code that is easy to maintain.