Having obtained some very basic information about Phing, now is the time for you to have some real-world action! Without PhpStorm, the action would have been centered on Phing, but since you are cooking with PhpStorm, you need to have a view from added angles. Thus, a probable roadmap for you would be to get Phing, install it locally on your development machine, and tell PhpStorm that Phing has been installed and that it needs to work in synchronization with Phing. Actually, PhpStorm makes use of the functionality that Phing provides.
Before we delve into the depths of building a build file, it is worth noting a few of the major features of Phing, which are as follows:
Simple XML build files
Rich set of provided tasks
Easily extendable via PHP classes
Platform-independent
No required external dependencies
Tip
If you want to read more about Phing tasks, I recommend that you visit the official website of Phing (http://www.phing.info/).