Instant PhpStorm Starter

Wlodzimierz Gajda

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781849693943
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Software Development
• Edition: 1

In Detail

PHPStorm is a modern integrated development environment for the PHP language. PHPStorm provides an intelligent editor for PHP code, HTML, and JavaScript with on-the-fly code analysis and automated refactoring for PHP and JavaScript code. PHPStorm's code completion supports PHP 5.4, including namespaces, closures, traits, and short array syntax. It includes a full-fledged SQL editor with editable query results.

"Instant PHPStorm Starter" is a plain and simple introduction to the world of advanced and professional PHP development with PHPStorm. It concentrates on the various tools and operations that will help you to produce better code in a more efficient way.

Learning professional PHP development starts with the basic using, analysing, and extending of existing PHP code. The book will guide you through the process of setting up and running your first application in Symfony2, a PHP hot topic that enforces all the best practices in PHP programming. Once you complete the task, you will acquire all the necessary knowledge to efficiently work on your code.

The book covers PHPStorm's interface as well as the most useful tools to generate, modify, and inspect the code. We start with the basic configuration of tool windows and the general IDE's appearance. Then we proceed with the first application; here, you will learn to manipulate the project's files. Next, we describe the most important operations concerning the code, one-by-one. This part of the book is divided into three main sections: editing, high level programming operations, and VCS.

This book covers all the killer features of the PHPStorm IDE.

Approach

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks.This is a Starter book with plenty of coded examples and pictorial illustrations.

Who this book is for

If you are a developer who knows the basics of PHP and want to learn the PHPStorm and Symfony 2 frameworks, this book is for you. The book concentrates on using the IDE and not on the PHP language.

Instant PhpStorm Starter

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Instant PhpStorm Starter

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First published: February 2013

Production Reference: 1190213

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Credits

Author

Włodzimierz Gajda

Reviewer

Timon Royer

Acquisition Editor

Usha Iyer

Commissioning Editor

Priyanka Shah

Technical Editor

Jalasha D'costa

Project Coordinator

Joel Goveya

Proofreader

Lydia May Morris

Production Coordinator

Prachali Bhiwandkar

Cover Work

Prachali Bhiwandkar

Cover Image

Sheetal Aute

About the Author

Włodzimierz Gajda is a very experienced lecturer and highly passionate teacher. In the last twenty years, he has conducted numerous classes and courses on very diverse subjects—from programming in C language and TCP/IP networking to building LEGO robots and developing web applications with PHP.

His teaching and learning activities for the last ten years focus around web development and web design. Currently he works in the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science at The Catholic University of Lublin, where he teaches web development, programming in PHP, and web design.

Włodzimierz occasionally contributes to open source projects on GitHub (https://github.com/gajdaw) and regularly writes books for Helion—the largest IT publishing house in Poland. He has published 12 books including:

• GIMP. Praktyczne projekty (GIMP. Practical projects)
• HTML, XHTML i CSS. Praktyczne projekty (HTML, XHTML and CSS. Practical projects)
• PHP. Praktyczne projekty (PHP. Practical projects)
• jQuery. Poradnik programisty (jQuery for programmers)
• Symfony w przykładach (Symfony by examples)
• Zend Framework od podstaw (Zend Framework from scratch)
• Git. Rozproszony system kontroli wersj (Git. Distributed Version Control System)

Tatra mountains trekking, playing blues (http://www.youtube.com/user/gajdaw), and reading horrors are his preferred leisure activities.

Visit Włodzimierz at http://gajdaw.pl.

About the Reviewer

Timon Royer is a graphic designer with more than 13 years of experience in the industry. His company specializes in Drupal Frontend Development and UX Design. Timon is married and lives in Germany.

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