Having had previous experience with JetBrains IDEs in the past ( PyCharm, IntelliJ) I knew what to expect of it, and wasn't disappointed. It performs extremely well, it integrates with pretty much all the frameworks we needed here (laravel, lighthouse, graphql, docker, etc). Note that the licensing is subscription based (at the moment we started, it was about 9$/month/devel, which scales up pretty fast for large teams

- as with all JetBrains products, you get a nice, clean and extremely powerful interface - again, as with other JetBrains products it has a huge plugin base for all kinds of frameworks, formats and so on. - regularly updated - with the exception of the project loading part, it's extremely fast

- kind-of pricey, at least when compared with other tools

Love it in every aspect even though it can get sluggish sometimes it never fails. It's the swiss army knife for devs :)

PHPStorm does practically all a developer could think of. - Database Management - Various Languages support - Easy to the eye color theming - The search and replace is so powerful! - Ability to have your terminal right there without having to open yet another app. - Git!!! - So well organized - A+++

I have nothing when it comes to cons. This tool is so customizable that any time some feature bothers me I can just switch it off.

If you are a professional developer and need a quality tool for your work, PHPStorm is worth the money. But be prepared to put in the time to learn the IDE

The amount of work that you can get done without leaving the editor is fantastic. From sshing into your server, version control, database and testing. Great number of plugins for most frameworks and testing tools.

The price is becoming a bit of an issue for me. With that being said, it does make your development process so much easier. Memory usage is quite high too and sometimes I find myself using a more lightweight editor such as vscode or sublime.

We love working in PHPStorm, we like it's layout, the plugins, VCS integration, stability, responsiveness etc.

I liked the most the fluidness of it's usage. No hick-ups, no long indexing processes, fast auto-completion, quick search, useful refactoring wizards... If man uses other JetBrains IDEs, too, like Android Studio for example, then the convenience to have the same interface (UI, debugger, database browser etc.) and especially hotkeys is very pleasant.

Color scheme is different from other editors, this took a bit time to get used to (1 week at most) but really can't tell any bad things about it.

I switched from Microsoft Visual Studio Code and i was very suprised how PHP Storm handles code, allows you to do a lot of wonderful things. Great product and i would recommend it to every PHP Developer. I think it's a must have for Php developers with every level of seniority.

Easy to use, helps you to keep your code clean, easy github integration, allows to show databases and tables within, customizable, TODO list builded in, debugg tool

Sometimes it has issues after updates but it's rapidly fixed, price could be lower but overall great product.