re: #5 phpstorm Correct, it's not free, but there is a 30 day trial. And... if you want to try it past that, it's $9/month on month-to-month pricing. For any

re: #5 phpstorm Correct, it's not free, but there is a 30 day trial. And... if you want to try it past that, it's $9/month on month-to-month pricing. For anyone working in "western" economies, it's near enough to free to at least give it a trial for a few months. The other 'big' competitors - vscode and probably... eclipse - both can provide value, but I've found the JetBrains stuff provide a much nicer out of the box experience for most PHP folks getting started out that that $89/year or $9/month to try is almost a no-brainer. But have also had people disagree, and almost always spend more than the $89 of their own time (or their company's time) getting VSCode set up with a collection of plugins.