--- description: Review of PhpStorm Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: PhpStorm | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice GB --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Source Code Management Software](/directory/4322/source-code-management/software) > [PhpStorm](/software/208921/phpstorm) # PhpStorm Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/208921/phpstorm Page: 1 / 8\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/208921/phpstorm?page=2) > PhpStorm is an integrated development environment (IDE) editor that lets developers program, test, debug and complete code for several frameworks including Symfony, Drupal, Laravel, Zend Framework, WordPress, Joomla\!, Magento, Yii and CakePHP. It offers a live edit preview functionality, which allows professionals to facilitate debugging sessions by viewing changes made in HTML, CSS, or JavaScript codes in real-time. Developers can utilize PhpStorm to analyze, refactor, format, re-arrange and autocomplete codes using a smart PHP code editor. It provides an IDE scripting console, which allows professionals to write scripts in the required language and integrate the platform with IntelliJ platform API to build custom IDE or plugins. Additionally, users can create, execute, monitor or terminate tests and visually profile data with Xdebug and Zend debugger. It offers REST API development, which assists businesses with composing and sending HTTP requests to web services and analyzing the received responses. It is available as an open-source and on monthly and yearly subscriptions. > > Verdict: Rated **4.8/5** by 160 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.8/5** | 160 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: JetBrains - **Founded**: 2000 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$249.00 - **Pricing model**: Per User (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: PhpStorm (For Organizations) - $249 per user/per year PhpStorm (For Individual Use) - $99 per year - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English, Italian - **Available Countries**: Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong SAR China, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia and 21 more ## Features - API - Change Management - Code Development - Code Editing - Code Review - Data Modeling - Debugging - For Developers - Graphical User Interface - Version Control - Web/Mobile App Development ## Integrations (1 total) - GitHub ## Support Options - Chat ## Category - [Source Code Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4322/source-code-management/software) ## Related Categories - [Source Code Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4322/source-code-management/software) - [Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4413/ide/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[Apache NetBeans](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/207943/apache-netbeans) — 4.3/5 (231 reviews) ## Reviews ### "Absolutely Wonderful Solution for PHP Development" — 5.0/5 > **Irfan** | *12 December 2019* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: - A complete PHP development IDE with all the modern features an IDE must possess like Version control, Database access, Debugging are so good to have feature for PHP Development environment - Built with powerful features of IntelliSense which makes PHP Coding really great as well - Support for a number of themes and add-ons is great so developer can customize according to their own needs - SSH and terminal support is out of the box you don't need to switch to other terminal apps during your development like for using git commands in terminal or accessing SSH. - Support for saving files as templates is just awesome. Plus its coding suggestions to improve as per chosen coding standards and templates is great. - A large number of built-in keyboard shortcuts plus feature of adding custom short cuts is great - It has add-ons to support different PHP Frameworks. Which is great - Being a PHP Developer myself there are so many things to appreciate PHPStorm that I can even write a book about it > > **Cons**: - With a lot of good features there are some issues as well like it gets a bit slow while loading huge projects. That's because it indexes all files for faster search but sometimes if system is low on memory that can be very painful because it can get really slower - Some configurations like debugging configurations can be a bit more difficult for new users sometimes they might need to go through a lot of research to set up development environment with all features - It is not free or a bit expensive as compared to some other options available > > As a PHP Developer I thank JetBrains for this wonderful product because It is a complete PHP IDE where I can develop, deploy, debug and even remotely debug. Great overall experience ----- ### "Expensive but worth it." — 5.0/5 > **César José** | *10 May 2022* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: PHPStorm integrates easily into your current work environment. Despite being a private development IDE, it has many tools and plugins that make it easy for the user to transition from their previous IDE to this one. It analyzes all your code in search of errors and teaches you how to optimize it, allowing the user to have a more efficient and clean code. > > **Cons**: To be a fairly powerful IDE, it consumes a lot of computer resources, which is why it is necessary to use a computer with good RAM and processing capacity if we want PHPStorm to work smoothly in it. In addition, its high cost makes it not accessible to any user, but in my opinion I consider it to be a cost worth paying. ----- ### "Excellent PHP-focused IDE" — 5.0/5 > **Kyle** | *12 October 2022* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 5.0/10 > > **Pros**: It made working with PHP and WordPress about as easy as it can be with any IDE. It's nice that PhpStorm is solely for PHP which allows it to be leaner and more focused, versus, say, Eclipse or other jack-of-all-trades IDEs > > **Cons**: I don't work solely on PHP and while it's easy enough to do JavaScript and other PHP-adjacent languages in PhpStorm, for Rails work, I have to use VSCode. > > Overall, it was a positive experience, but I ultimately stopped renewing my license because VSCode works better as it allows me to stay within a single IDE for whatever my current development needs may be. If you're for sure only going to be doing PHP and PHP-adjacent languages, I doubt there's a better IDE than PhpStorm. ----- ### "PHPStorm is the best paid IDE I tried" — 5.0/5 > **Daniel** | *31 March 2022* | Internet | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: It has all the features the other IDEs have, and more. it's easy to integrate it with other tools. > > **Cons**: It could be expensive. It's learning curve may be steep. > > It helped me wrote better code: code completion it's a breeze, syntax highlighting helps you a lot, documentation is superb. I created projects almost without effort, keeped it all very tidy and orderly. ----- ### "PhpStorm - The best PHP IDE" — 5.0/5 > **Kennedy** | *16 May 2019* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: The syntax highlighting is very good for PHP, HTML and Javascript. The User Interface is friendly and easy use. Keyboard shortcuts are available that speed up development. Phpstorm supports version control which makes going back to commits easy. Further, you can deploy your application to your server right from Phpstorm and integrates well with third party plugins such as Laravel IDE helper and there arelots of plugins from the official plugins repository that can be accessed from the IDE itself. There is also a student pack that gives free licences for a year to students to help them taste the full power of PHPstorm. > > **Cons**: The price is the only thing that I dont like about PHPstorm. > > We use Phpstorm to code our web applications and it has drastically reduced the time our developers are building web applications and there are fewer programming errors thanks to phpstorm. ----- Page: 1 / 8\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/208921/phpstorm?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/208921/phpstorm) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data