jetbrains Phpstorm or IntelliJ IDEA with plugins

[LaP]

Hi!

 

I've been using Apatana Studio for a while now and while i like it i would like to try something new cause well there might be something better out there and it's been a while since i tried other web IDEs. I heard lot of good things about JetBrains products so i think i'll try that first.

 

So i was wondering what is better to try IntelliJ IDEA with php, ruby, python plugins or Phpstorm. For the price, Phpstorm looks a little bit limited. While i do Php mostly i also do Java, Python and Perl here and there (and .NET of course but i use Visual Studio for that). Aptana Studio supports Php and Ruby and i can add Perl and Python support via a plugins. Does Phpstorm really just support Php? I see that IntelliJ IDEA has plugins for Php, Ruby and Python as well as supporting java. Looks like a more complete solution for the same price to me. Is the php plugin of IntelliJ IDEA as good as Phpstorm or at the very least close to it? If not what are the differences between Phpstorm and IntelliJ IDEA php plugin?

 

Ty for the answers.

[Max Norris]

Is the php plugin of IntelliJ IDEA as good as Phpstorm or at the very least close to it? If not what are the differences between Phpstorm and IntelliJ IDEA php plugin?

Under the hood they're all the same IDE, just different default plugins and configurations. If you go to the JetBrains Plugin Repository you'll find a bunch of different languages, some by JetBrains, some by third parties. It's similar to Visual Studio, you get the out of the box defaults and then you can extend it every which way you can think of from there. Once you've installed whatever plugin, you pretty much have the same features found in PHPStorm/PyCharm/etc.

If anything, you got the 30 day free trial of IntelliJ Ultimate, or if you don't need all the extra bells and whistles there is the free community edition. Add on the PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl and whatever other extensions that do it for you. Just my own opinion anyway, Jetbrains absolutely crushes Aptana/Eclipse when it comes to Python and JScript.

[Ambroos]

I used to be an Eclipse die-hard (still am for Java EE stuff because IntelliJ is too expensive for that), but since switching to Android Studio (= IntelliJ) I've become a big fan. Once you get used to the keyboard shortcuts it's just so much faster. You do need a reasonably powerful machine for it though, running it on my i5 dualcore laptop from a few years back wasn't optimal at times (background music started stuttering etc). It's very CPU-heavy because of the constant indexing it does - which is what makes it such a brilliant IDE in the first place.