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PhpStorm Cookbook

By : Mukund Chaudhary

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PhpStorm Cookbook

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By: Mukund Chaudhary

Overview of this book

If you are a competent PHP developer who knows the basics of PHPStorm and intends to gain better knowledge of PHPStorm by learning and implementing pro-level practices, techniques, and solutions, then this book is for you. It is assumed that you already have a working installation of the software setup.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

1. Cooking with PhpStorm

1. Cooking with PhpStorm

Introduction

Showing/hiding views

Customizing a view

Accessing any project file

Maximizing views and editors

Going back to the previous editor

Going back to the previous edit location

Linking views to editors

Creating a key binding

Creating a bookmark

Restoring deleted resources

Customizing with PhpStorm

Adding an include path

Excluding unwanted directories from the index

Using code completion

2. PHP Development

2. PHP Development

Introduction

Creating a PHP project using Composer

Creating an empty project

Reusing an existing project

Creating a new PHP class

Creating a new PHP method

Adding the getter/setter methods

Creating delegate methods

Surrounding code with control structures

Finding the matching brace

Commenting out a section of code and PHPDoc

Creating a working set

Creating TODO tasks

3. Refactoring and Building

3. Refactoring and Building

Introduction

Renaming elements

Copying elements

Moving elements

Moving a method

Moving a variable

Deleting elements

Searching code in a project

Comparing files

Restoring elements using comparison

Setting the run configuration

Running your code

4. Integrating Framework

4. Integrating Framework

Introduction

Cooking with Symfony

Creating a controller with Symfony

Creating a model with Symfony

Creating a view with Symfony

Creating a model with the Yii framework

Creating a controller with the Yii framework

Creating a view with the Yii framework

Creating a model with the Zend framework

Creating a controller with the Zend framework

Creating a view with the Zend framework

5. Testing and Debugging

5. Testing and Debugging

Introduction

Installing PHPUnit

Test case in PHPUnit

Testing an application with PHPUnit

Starting a debugging session

Setting a breakpoint

Configuring breakpoint conditions

Creating exception breakpoints

Stepping through your code

Running to a line of code selected

Watching expressions and variables

Changing code on the fly

Code coverage in PhpStorm

6. Using PhpStorm in a Team

6. Using PhpStorm in a Team

Introduction

Getting a VCS server

Creating a VCS repository

Connecting PhpStorm to a VCS repository

Storing a PhpStorm project in a VCS repository

Committing files to the VCS repository

Updating code from a VCS repository

Synchronizing your code with the VCS repository

Examining the VCS repository

Checking projects out of a VCS repository

Creating code patches

Creating VCS tags or branches

Creating a task for the team

7. PhpStorm and Phing

7. PhpStorm and Phing

Introduction

Connecting Phing and PhpStorm

Catching Phing build file syntax problems

Building a PhpStorm application using Phing

Using a different build file

Doing wonders with Phing

Using the Phing build view

8. Cooking Library Plugins

8. Cooking Library Plugins

Introduction

Creating a library plugin

Refining the plugin

Configuring the plugin with PhpStorm

Code hinting for the plugin

9. Code Quality Analysis

9. Code Quality Analysis

Introduction

Mess detector and PhpStorm

Code sniffer and PhpStorm

Locating code duplicates

Code formatting and arrangement

Index

Index

Stepping through your code

Life teaches new lessons at every moment. For all of you who found the phrase stepping through code new, this is a process wherein you do an analysis of the values of variables, the control structures, and the method call hierarchy. The process includes three types of stepping:

Step Into
Step Over
Step Out

Getting ready

Do you need to step through code at all? Yes, of course. When? When you have to find out what the eyesore in the code is. You have to step into the code when you need to know the next line in the entire program. You have to step over code when you need to know the next executed line in the entire program. You have to step out of code when you need to know the next line after the method selected.

How to do it...

In order to step through code, you just need to be in a debugging session. The rest is just a click away or just a matter of a keyboard shortcut. Perform the following steps:

Begin with stepping over the code. When your debug session is active...

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