Changing the default document font settings Select editor > general > appearance setting in the left pane.Ĭheck the show whitespaces check box in the pane on the right side. To make white spaces visible in the editor document window: Note changing the font size will also increase the size of the tab bar tabs Show whitespaces in the editor window Make the following changes in the right pane of the dialog:Ĭheck the show tree indent guides checkbox Select Appearance & Behaviour > Apperance in left pane of the dialog If navigation panel is closed, you can open it with cmd+1 keyboard shortcut to see the effects if the setting change. Changing Font and Appearance of project directory navigation side panel You can also search for a setting which will make it easier to locate the setting. Once opened you can navigate to the setting you want to change using the directory structure. The dialog can be opened by typing the cmd+, (command+comma) shortcut. The settings dialog is where you can find and configure all the PhpStorm settings. Open editor tabs settings box by navigating from the menu to window > editor table > configure editor tabs. To configure how the tabs in the editor tab bar behave: I keep the editor tab bar visible to be able to tab between open documents, however the tab bar can be turned off as well. To hide the status bar, using the menu navigate to view > appearance > status bar and uncheck the status bar To hide the navigation bar, using the menu navigate to view > appearance > navigation bar and uncheck the navigation bar To hide the toolbar window bars, using the menu navigate to view > appearance > toolbar window bars and uncheck the toolbar To hide the toolbar, using the menu navigate to view > appearance > toolbar and uncheck the toolbar If you don’t have a php project yet, just clone one from Github or let the editor open a tutorial php project that comes bundled with the editor.īelow are the steps to take to turn off the UI elements: To be able to setup the editor we need to open a php project first so the editor launches. To that end I turn off most of UI elements. The first thing I like to do is to get rid of as much UI clutter and use keyboard shortcuts to access editor features. To find the path on your system use the bash command below: Note: The symlink /usr/local/bin/pstorm is automatically created by the PhpStorm installation to launch the editor window in the scope of your project. Now you can go to any project folder in the terminal and type pstorm. Type in /usr/local/bin/pstorm which is the path of the PhpStorm executable on your system. Using the application menu select tools > create command line launcher to open the command line launcher input box. This opens the editor window and displays the application menu. Opening PhpStorm editor from the command lineīefore we can configure PhpStorm to open from the terminal we need to launch it using the desktop icon and select new project and create an empty project. In this post I detail how I set up PhpStorm for productive PHP development. My PhpStorm Development Setup | aregsar Areg Sarkissian Posts | About My PhpStorm Development Setup

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