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PhpStorm Cookbook

By : Mukund Chaudhary
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PhpStorm Cookbook

By: Mukund Chaudhary

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PhpStorm Cookbook
Mukund Chaudhary
Dec, 2014 | 254 pages
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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
PhpStorm Cookbook
PhpStorm Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Cooking with PhpStorm
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Code Quality Analysis
Introduction
Mess detector and PhpStorm
Code sniffer and PhpStorm
Locating code duplicates
Code formatting and arrangement
Index
Index

Starting a debugging session

"Now is the time for all programmers to start debugging their code"

Like most IDEs, PhpStorm also uses a bug icon to show the debugger. Just as a bug leeches your blood and doesn't let you concentrate on your main task, a software bug can leech precious CPU cycles and not allow your software to work as expected.

To prevent such bugs from entering the life cycle of software, you need to do debugging. Debugging is the process of diving deep into the code and finding out the potential areas that might be the problem causing regions in the code, so do extensive lookup to find and rectify the bugs.

The tools available for the purpose are termed debuggers in the industry. Xdebug is the name for one such tool. It is a very commonly used, free, and open source debugger that is available to be plugged in with most IDEs.

Getting ready

To plug it in, you need to install it on your development machine. Perform the following steps:

  1. Check out the source code from GitHub, the repository...

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