
I would say that the most important advantage of IDE is that it “sees” a project as a whole. Beginning with searching and refactoring, to integration with external tools and processes. IDEs are more demanding on resources, as they provide a vast number of extra functions.Editors focus on lightweight performance and core tasks of writing and changing code.If a meek one, many developers would use either and both for different tasks:
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The choice between code editors and development environments (IDEs) is an old holy war. By now I can attest that it has become a staple choice among developers on Yoast projects. I grumped that it wouldn’t be an issue if they'd just use PhpStorm over there. I remember troubleshooting some issue in Yoast SEO years ago. On another it's great for projects in the WordPress ecosystem, which typically contain a balance of legacy code and modern PHP practices. On one hand it's a solid code editor choice in general. If you make a breakpoint at each line, you’ll note the temp array start with 3 elements and then loses the last array element as the unset command executes.PhpStorm has been growing in popularity in WordPress circles. Click the button in the browser to enable debugging. After installing the extension, click on its options and set the Ide key to match ‘vagrant’.
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In the Firefox browser, install the extension EasiestXDebug. A breakpoint is noted by a red circle on the left side. Open debugTest.php within the IDE and add some breakpoints by either selecting a line and pressing Ctrl+F8 or clicking just to the right of a line number. The Server name should match the same one we just created. Create a new PHP Remote Debug configuration with the following settings: You’ll want to also map the absolute path on the server, using “/vagrant/public_html” to map to your project’s public_html folder.Īfter saving the server configuration, select the Run menu and then Edit Configurations. The Host is the hostname of our vagrant box, which for this project is “”, and we’re using port 80. I added a new server and named it “Vagrant Server”. Save a new PHP file called debugTest.php within the public_html folder of the project with the following content: Settings and select the PHP servers. I’m using the latest version of PHPStorm, 2016.3.2 as of writing this. Also, open up PHPStorm on the host machine. We’ll be configuring PHPStorm and Firefox to connect to a debugging session on the vagrant box.įirst, get an instance of the RV project up and running. With a tradeoff of performance, we are able to remotely debug our code in a tool such as PHPStorm. Rampant Vagrant comes with XDebug installed and enabled in the guest OS by default with the IDE key of “vagrant”. Happy Testing! Author Jeremy Gonyea Posted on Categories Behat, PHPStorm Leave a comment on Integrate PHPStorm, Behat, and Vagrant Configuring Remote Xdebug and PHPStorm You should now be able to run behat tests in the vagrant box right from PHPStorm.
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Change this if you decide to upgrade to a different version) Change PHP level to 5.3 (RV uses PHP 5.3 by default.Change Deployment path to “.” under the mapping tab.Set Project file folder to point to /public_html.Add a new connection > Local or mounted folder.Build Execution & Deployment > Deployment.Remove the Project Root folder, add public_html.Click Manage and import PHPStorm-Drupal.xml from /buildFiles/configs folder.Settings Changes (File-Settings)Editor > Code Style.Press the button for Project Root and press OK.Here’s some things you’ll need to have before starting: At Bryn Mawr, we have behat as part of our repository, so we use that path instead of the default /usr/local/bin/behat one. If you wish to use your own version of Behat, you’ll need that path later.

Behat v3.3 does come pre-installed via composer and is found at /usr/local/bin/behat. Behat tests can be initiated right from PHPStorm, saving a lot of hassle, as well as simplifying access to tests for less technical users.
