JetBrains has expanded its line of language-specific IDEs with the release of two new products PhpStorm 1.0 and WebStorm 1.0 for PHP and web development.
The company said that the new products add features such as project deployment and synchronisation over FTP, to create an environment for productive web development.
According to JetBrains, both products have understanding of code, be it JavaScript, PHP, HTML, or CSS; perform an analysis of project code; and offer developers code insight, code completion suggestions and project navigation facilities.
In addition, PhpStorm 1.0 provides advanced support for PHP development, including smart code completion, inspections, refactorings and quick code navigation. It also includes Graphical PHP Debugger, with conditional breakpoints, watches and smart step-into; and supports PhpUnit testing frameworks support, with a GUI-based test runner.
Maxim Mossienko, project lead at JetBrains, said: Java developers using IntelliJ IDEA and also working with PHP have long asked us to add PHP language support. We released initial PHP support in IntelliJ IDEA 9.0 with the plan to create a specific IDE later on.
“While we still plan to keep IntelliJ IDEA as an ultimate IDE for polyglot programming, the IntelliJ Platform allows us to easily build language-specific development environments. PhpStorm and WebStorm are the next installment in this line of lightweight yet powerful IDEs.
