Released: Aug 23, 2013

Updates in this release

Updates in V6

• New refactorings including Change signature, Pull Up/Push Down class members and Move class to another namespace.
• Create a new project using the Composer.
• Manage dependencies and add packages with a user-friendly UI.
• Work with the Composer via a command line tool including command auto-completion within the IDE.
• Smarter handling of namespaces, with Auto-Import, Optimize Imports and folding for Imports.
• Code (re)arranger, a powerful tool to control the structure of your existing and generated code. For example, you can specify methods to be ordered after fields or keep dependent methods together.
• All templates are now fully customizable.
• New change tracking tools and a Database schema editor.
• Edit Tools allow you to add, drop or rename tables, columns, keys and indices for your databases.
• Definition Editor allows you to edit the definition for views, procedures and packages, with code assistance.
• Diff Tool helps you easily generate a SQL migration schema for differences between selected tables or databases.
• REST Client is now integrated in the IDE to let you test RESTful web services right from PhpStorm.
• Improvements for HTML and CSS coding with a significantly re-worked HTML structure view and support for Emmet for HTML and CSS in the editor.