Download PhpStorm 2018.2.5

JetBrains releases several development environments such as IntelliJ Idea targeting Java, CLion targeting C and C++, DataGrip targeting SQL and PhpStorm targeting PHP. PhpStorm provides on-the-fly error prevention, autocompletion, code refactoring, and debugging, and also handles HTML, CSS, Coffee, and JavaScript. For an overview of the possibilities, we refer to this page† To use PhpStorm is a license required. For business and home use you will have to pay for it, but if the software is used for education or non-commercial open source projects, the license is free. JetBrains has released PhpStorm 2018.2.5 with the following announcement:

PhpStorm 2018.2.5 has been released

PhpStorm 2018.2.5 build 182.4892.16 is now available! This update brings flexible heredoc/nowdoc syntax support for PHP 7.3, bug fixes, and takes on the latest enhancements in IntelliJ Platform. You can download PhpStorm 2018.2.5 here or in JetBrains Toolbox App. If you have installed the previous PhpStorm 2018.2 invoke the Check for updates action to receive the latest update.

Flexible Heredoc and Nowdoc Syntax Support
PHP 7.3 RC3 has been released on schedule. It means that it’ll be possible to use the improved Heredoc and Nowdoc strings syntax very soon! You’ll be able to indent the closing marker as you wish, and this indentation will dictate the amount of whitespace to strip from each line within the heredoc/nowdoc. PhpStorm 2018.2 now supports this upcoming neat syntax:

See the full list of bug fixes and improvements in the release notes†

That’s it for today! Download PhpStorm 2018.2.5 or click Update in your JetBrains Toolbox App, and please do report any bugs and feature request to our Issue Tracker. Your feedback is also very welcome in the comments and Twitter.

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