Over on his blog, MODX co-founder and Chief Architect, Jason (opengeek) Coward, shares why PhpStorm is his PHP IDE of choice.
Though PHP is just now getting to a point in it's own development where useful refactorings can be automated through the IDE—and PhpStorm does a great job of supporting the refactorings that can be easily automated in PHP—the features and feel of PhpStorm are exactly what I would have expected from a JetBrains product. Everything is simple, intuitive, fast (for a Java-based IDE anyway) and stable.
If you're looking for a serious development IDE for PHP, check out his post and test drive PhpStorm.
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Jay Gilmore is General Manager at MODX, the company behind the open source MODX CMS and MODX Cloud hosting platform. He's been working with MODX since 2006 and was one of the first five employees when the company formed in 2010. He writes about the web and whatever else catches his attention at jaygilmore.ca.
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