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Before I started using Sublime Text Editor for everything, PHPStorm was my go-to GUI for not only PHP coding but everything else as well, an awesome company and

Before I started using Sublime Text Editor for everything, PHPStorm was my go-to GUI for not only PHP coding but everything else as well, an awesome company and a great cause. I highly recommend their tools, they also have pretty good support and offer free licences to educational institutes and open source projects.

argonaut 14y ago
Would you recommend Sublime Text 2 over PHPStorm/Webstorm for someone only coding in HTML/CSS/JS?
- LordIllidan 14y ago
  Why don't you try out their 30 day trial? I wouldn't get PHPStorm if you're not using PHP (unless you want to be future proof in case you do end up using it.) Check out the webstorm features here: http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/features/index.html http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/features/index.html
  - orillian 14y ago
    I have both. I really like the fact that the IDE's are so segregated. I find IDEA or Netbeans or Eclipse to have to much stuff. I use webStorm for javascript only projects and phpStorm when I'm doing php development. I configure each IDE to work how I like with the language of choice and all is good in the world.
- DigitalSea 14y ago
  If you are primarily working with just PHP (well most of the time), PHPStorm is the best choice. It has some of the best debugging features you'll ever encounter (I originally came from Eclipse) and the Syntax highlighting is second to none. The great thing about what PHPStorm also does is you can see where everything is, hovering over a function or anything documented for that matter will show the documentation for said function. For Wordpress development especially it's really useful. The reason I moved to Sublime is I no longer primarily work with just PHP any more. Javascript, HTML, Python, Ruby, Node.js and CSS are some of the languages I find myself in. Sublime lacks a lot of nice features that PHPStorm has and definitely is a bit more manual in some aspects, I do miss the intelligent syntax highlighting and checking (warning you if you forgot to close a if statement and whatnot).
LordIllidan 14y ago
Ha, I went the opposite route. I was using Sublime Text Editor for everything, switched to PHPStorm (I do a lot of drupal/wordpress development) I do miss some of sublime text's features but the integrated debugger tools and other awesome features... I can't go back
taude 14y ago
Yeah, I went the opposite too, from SBT to PyCharm (their Python optimized IDE that has everything Web Storm + first class Python support). I work with a lot of JavaScript (specifically Angular.JS) from this setup and can't say enough good things. A nice side-benefit is that you can also work Node.JS in this version after installing the plugin. EDIT: I still use SBT2 for looking at source code, especially projects cloned from github for learning, etc...but my main work projects are now in PyCharm.

argonaut 14y ago

Would you recommend Sublime Text 2 over PHPStorm/Webstorm for someone only coding in HTML/CSS/JS?

LordIllidan 14y ago
Why don't you try out their 30 day trial? I wouldn't get PHPStorm if you're not using PHP (unless you want to be future proof in case you do end up using it.) Check out the webstorm features here: http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/features/index.html http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/features/index.html
- orillian 14y ago
  I have both. I really like the fact that the IDE's are so segregated. I find IDEA or Netbeans or Eclipse to have to much stuff. I use webStorm for javascript only projects and phpStorm when I'm doing php development. I configure each IDE to work how I like with the language of choice and all is good in the world.
DigitalSea 14y ago
If you are primarily working with just PHP (well most of the time), PHPStorm is the best choice. It has some of the best debugging features you'll ever encounter (I originally came from Eclipse) and the Syntax highlighting is second to none. The great thing about what PHPStorm also does is you can see where everything is, hovering over a function or anything documented for that matter will show the documentation for said function. For Wordpress development especially it's really useful. The reason I moved to Sublime is I no longer primarily work with just PHP any more. Javascript, HTML, Python, Ruby, Node.js and CSS are some of the languages I find myself in. Sublime lacks a lot of nice features that PHPStorm has and definitely is a bit more manual in some aspects, I do miss the intelligent syntax highlighting and checking (warning you if you forgot to close a if statement and whatnot).

LordIllidan 14y ago

Ha, I went the opposite route. I was using Sublime Text Editor for everything, switched to PHPStorm (I do a lot of drupal/wordpress development) I do miss some of sublime text's features but the integrated debugger tools and other awesome features... I can't go back

taude 14y ago

Yeah, I went the opposite too, from SBT to PyCharm (their Python optimized IDE that has everything Web Storm + first class Python support). I work with a lot of JavaScript (specifically Angular.JS) from this setup and can't say enough good things. A nice side-benefit is that you can also work Node.JS in this version after installing the plugin. EDIT: I still use SBT2 for looking at source code, especially projects cloned from github for learning, etc...but my main work projects are now in PyCharm.