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JetBrains just released the newest EAP build, one in a long line of builds they’ve been releasing for us developers in their Early Access Program. I truly believe it’s awesome how JetBrains listens to their users and work hard to release this cutting edge editor.

What’s inside

phpStorm 2.0 has a lot of hot features. Most of them are already working in the newest EAP builds.

Features already in:

• Zend debugger support
• Refactoring features
• New code inspections
• Structure view sorting and filtering
• New full-fledged code editor for SQL console, editable results grid, blob support
• LESS support
• New DVCS UI (Git, etc) with easy multiple repository branch switching, built-in log views and integrated cherrypicking, etc
• Softwrap in code editor
• Mercurial support
• RelaxNG support

Implementation in process:

• “Any framework” support mechanism
• Zend framework support (zendtool, generators)
• full fledged PHP namespace support
• SASS 3 support, compilation support
• Streamlined UI: more compact layout, better indication, better blending into OS style

Check out the phpStorm blog: http://blogs.jetbrains.com/webide/
Newest EAP build can be downloaded here: http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/WI/Web+IDE+EAP
Development Roadmap: http://confluence.jetbrains.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=15801728
Community forum: http://devnet.jetbrains.net/community/wi/
Issue tracker: http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issues/WI

Bonus!

Like the dark twilight theme? I’ve ported it to phpStorm, you can download it here.

phpStorm team has released another EAP version 2 of their excellent IDE, build 100.36

Most notable changes are:

• PHP debuggers “Listen for connections” is now easily controlled via toolbar button.
• Bookmarklets for easily starting/stopping xdebug session are now available for all browsers. More coming later.
• Commandline tools support is extended to support Zend Tool, Symfony tool and shell commands. Default keybinding is Ctrl+Shift+X

Blog post: http://blogs.jetbrains.com/webide/2010/12/phpstorm-webstorm-2-0-eap-build-100-32/

Download: http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/WI/Web+IDE+EAP

Changelog: http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/releaseNotes/WI?q=fix+for:+{EAP+100.36}

Sometimes the project you’re working on can include a lot of useless files or non-related you wish to ignore. Using phpStorm, goto Settings (Alt+Ctrl+S) | Directories | Select folders to exclude.

This will often let phpStorm be even more excise when displaying the object relationship trail.