PhpStorm Manufacturing Reviews & Insights

Score9.1 out of 10

96 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for PhpStorm are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Intuitive User Interface: Several reviewers have praised the intuitive and user-friendly interface of PhpStorm, stating that it allows for efficient completion of tasks. Users found it easy to navigate and appreciated features such as running SQL commands directly from the software, eliminating the need for additional clients.

Shortcut Keys Enhance Productivity: Many users have highlighted the availability of shortcut keys in PhpStorm, mentioning how they greatly assisted in the coding process and enhanced productivity. This feature allows developers to quickly execute commands and perform actions without relying solely on the mouse.

Assistive Features Improve Coding Experience: Numerous reviewers have expressed their appreciation for the auto-generation of assistive features in PhpStorm, such as autocomplete and tooltips from PHPDoc comments. These features not only make coding faster but also reduce errors by providing helpful suggestions and reminders.

Reviews

2 Reviews

Manufacturing

PhpStorm is the best

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 29, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for the entire technological aspect of our systems developed with Laravel. We find its performance, indexing, and versatility to be able to install plugins that help further enhance the IDE quite useful.The integrated AI tool is also quite useful for generating generic or basic code that is tedious to constantly generate.

Pros

IA
Indexing
Searching

Cons

Diagrams
Selecting Code
DB

Likelihood to Recommend

In general, PhpStorm is a very complete IDE, although it is good for small projects, its strength is the management of large projects, its indexing helps you know where things are, its search engine is wonderful, and as I mentioned before, it becomes even more powerful with its plugins to enhance weak points, its integrated AI tool is very good, both for generating code, resolving doubts or refactoring complete flows.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (Computer Hardware company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Develop your web with PhpStorm

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 28, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use PhpStorm in the software development group, especially for PHP projects or projects that have at least one PHP module. When I decided to buy it (due to the insistence of a team member) I was skeptical that it worth the money spent. However, soon I realized this is a powerful IDE for PHP development, with many nice and useful features that improve the speed of development and productivity.

Pros

Integration with almost any source code control system.
Code assistance - PhpStorm has the best code assistance I have seen in my career in an IDE with an advanced syntax highlighting mode. It is helping write the code faster and reduces the number of bugs.
The graphics of the files comparison tool are really nice and helpful.
Code refactoring is done well.
Extended plugin list available.

Cons

It is limited to PHP, CSS, HTML. Support for other programming languages would be nice
Steep learning curve - it needs some time and training for a developer to use PhpStorm at its full capacity.
To run optimally, PhpStorm needs a machine with 16GB RAM, which is an add-on to its cost.
It is not free. Not expensive, but not free.
Some performance issues are there during code refactoring and cause extensive changes in the project.

Likelihood to Recommend

I highly recommend PhpStorm specifically for web development involving PHP, CSS, and HTML. This IDE has everything you need to do this, and more. Once the team members learn it, it will increase the speed of development, the quality of the code(therefore fewer bugs) and overall it will increase the team's productivity, delivering projects/features faster to market and saving the company money.

Cristian Bodnarasec

Senior Software Development Manager in Information Technology at eSilicon (Semiconductors, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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