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Just as I was going to install PhpStorm 6 on my new machine at work, cool. Most people in my team are not convinced PhpStorm brings anything valuable compared

Just as I was going to install PhpStorm 6 on my new machine at work, cool. Most people in my team are not convinced PhpStorm brings anything valuable compared to NetBeans, Eclipse, Sublime2 or even vim. Maybe I will try once again with version 7 :)

V-2 13y ago
I only briefly used Eclipse, so I can't comment on that one. I used NetBeans for a few months though. PHPStorm has much superior refactoring, it beats NB hands down. This by itself was for me enough of a reason to switch. I also had some issues with NetBeans being inresponsive, or some functionalities breaking for no clear reason (like "go to definition" wouldn't work anymore) etc. My working copy was on a mounted drive - which sucks, but it didn't depend on me - and whenever NB had a problem saving some file, it would make it look as if the file was saved anyway, and I ended up losing changes. On the top of that, its SVN integration (I've switched to Git since, but I never looked back at NetBeans, so I can't compare) was ridiculously slow. It just feels buggy.
- Kiro 13y ago
  What's so good about PhpStorm's refactoring? Can you give an example?
  - V-2 13y ago
    I can't remember exactly anymore what NetBeans has and has not, anyway PHPStorm allows you to generate getters and setters, or to extract a fragment of code into a separate method - the latter one is extremely helpful for refactoring poorly written spaghetti code. This function is quite intelligent, so it takes care of all the local variables and creates a proper method signature (so that the newly created method would take all the variables used by the code as arguments), etc.
zuppy 13y ago
I'm switching a lot of branches and Eclipse used to freeze for a few minutes until it indexed the directory. That doesn't happen in phpStorm. That's only one of the many reasons to use it :-)
Aldo_MX 13y ago
When I was trying to promote PhpStorm to replace NetBeans, after I told about the code formatting options, a colleague told me it was possible with NetBeans... You had to select Formatting in a dropdown to display those options (yet, they were limited in comparison with PhpStorm)... After that day I forgot that NetBeans exist, seriously, a dropdown that changes the UI? What did the developers have in their minds?

V-2 13y ago

I only briefly used Eclipse, so I can't comment on that one. I used NetBeans for a few months though. PHPStorm has much superior refactoring, it beats NB hands down. This by itself was for me enough of a reason to switch. I also had some issues with NetBeans being inresponsive, or some functionalities breaking for no clear reason (like "go to definition" wouldn't work anymore) etc. My working copy was on a mounted drive - which sucks, but it didn't depend on me - and whenever NB had a problem saving some file, it would make it look as if the file was saved anyway, and I ended up losing changes. On the top of that, its SVN integration (I've switched to Git since, but I never looked back at NetBeans, so I can't compare) was ridiculously slow. It just feels buggy.

Kiro 13y ago
What's so good about PhpStorm's refactoring? Can you give an example?
- V-2 13y ago
  I can't remember exactly anymore what NetBeans has and has not, anyway PHPStorm allows you to generate getters and setters, or to extract a fragment of code into a separate method - the latter one is extremely helpful for refactoring poorly written spaghetti code. This function is quite intelligent, so it takes care of all the local variables and creates a proper method signature (so that the newly created method would take all the variables used by the code as arguments), etc.

zuppy 13y ago

I'm switching a lot of branches and Eclipse used to freeze for a few minutes until it indexed the directory. That doesn't happen in phpStorm. That's only one of the many reasons to use it :-)

Aldo_MX 13y ago

When I was trying to promote PhpStorm to replace NetBeans, after I told about the code formatting options, a colleague told me it was possible with NetBeans... You had to select Formatting in a dropdown to display those options (yet, they were limited in comparison with PhpStorm)... After that day I forgot that NetBeans exist, seriously, a dropdown that changes the UI? What did the developers have in their minds?