Additional discounted and complementary licenses are available for startups, students and teachers, and non-commercial open source projects. PhpStorm is available for individual developers, and business and organizations. Annual subscriptions or monthly subscriptions maintained for 12 consecutive months also receive a "perpetual fallback license" to the major version available at the time of purchase. In November 2015 JetBrains switched to licensing PhpStorm on a subscription basis.
The software also communicates with external sources like XDebug.Īll features available in WebStorm are included in PhpStorm, which adds support for PHP and databases. Users can extend the IDE by installing plugins created for PhpStorm or write their own plugins. It includes a full-fledged SQL or with able query results. PhpStorm's code completion supports PHP 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 and 8.0 (modern and legacy projects), including generators, coroutines, the finally keyword, list in foreach, namespaces, closures, traits and short array syntax. PhpStorm provides an or for PHP, HTML and JavaScript with on-the-fly code analysis, error prevention and automated refactorings for PHP and JavaScript code. PhpStorm is a proprietary, cross-platform IDE (integrated development environment) for PHP, built by the Czech Republic-based company JetBrains.