PHP Laravel IDE

L.Jenkins

Can't remember if I've asked before, but can anyone suggest a good IDE for PHP and Laravel? Don't want to edit files via notepad++ and run them from the command line just yet. I want to get a more visual handle with PHP and Laravel first before I'm confident enough to run from the cli.

Peck3277

I haven't used it for any laravel projects yet but I've been using PHPStorm at work for the past few months and I'm really liking it.

L.Jenkins

Isn't PHPStorm a monthly subscription IDE?

Peck3277

L.Jenkins wrote: »

Isn't PHPStorm a monthly subscription IDE?

I think it's an annual subscription? Work pays for it so I'm not sure. I used to use eclipse but I don't see myself going back after changing.

L.Jenkins

I had a look and it's 199 euro per year.

Peck3277

L.Jenkins wrote: »

I had a look and it's 199 euro per year.

Ouch, didn't realise it was that expensive. My other recommendation would be eclipse. It's pretty good and has a lot of extensions

L.Jenkins

I'm using eclipse for pretty much everything else it can be used for, so I'm trying it with PHP. I'm also getting Netbeans to give it a go.

zig

I use PHPStorm and love it, it definitely makes life easier.

Goodshape

VSCode is pretty great out of the box and plenty of PHP and Laravel plugins.

L.Jenkins

Only got around to it this evening, but I get Laravel running with Netbeans. I'll stick with that for a while to see how things go. Thanks for all the suggestions.

boreder

Goodshape wrote: »

VSCode is pretty great out of the box and plenty of PHP and Laravel plugins.

+ 1 for VSCode

Buford T Justice

Netbeans sucks tbh. VS Code is free and is probably one of the best free ide's available - you can extend it to do pretty much whatever you want. Its not often I give microsoft credit, but where its due.....

L.Jenkins

Going to give VSCode a try. Not intent on paying for phpstorm, as good as it might be.

Goodshape

L.Jenkins wrote: »

Going to give VSCode a try. Not intent on paying for phpstorm, as good as it might be.

My work pays for my PHPStorm licence and I still switched to VSCode.

Less bloated, even after you add any plugins you need, and just much nicer (imo) to work with.

L.Jenkins

Seems to be the case from what I've seen so far.

antimatterx

I was a Laravel dev in my previous job and we initially used atom, then moved to vs code with plugins. VS Code is the best, it's lightweight, yet extremely performant.