PhpStorm

PhpStorm

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About

Cursor is an AI coding agent and development platform for building ambitious software faster. The platform lets developers hand off tasks to agents that can build, test, demo, and prepare features for review. Cursor supports autonomous and parallel agent workflows, including cloud agents that can work on multiple tasks across repositories. It runs across the editor, terminal, Slack, and GitHub, helping teams automate coding, code review, PR workflows, and repetitive engineering work. Cursor also lets users choose from leading AI models for different tasks, including models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, SpaceXAI, and Cursor. Built for developers, engineering teams, and enterprises, Cursor helps accelerate software development while keeping humans focused on decisions and review.

About

The Lightning-Smart PHP IDE. PhpStorm deeply understands your code. PhpStorm is perfect for working with Symfony, Laravel, Drupal, WordPress, Zend Framework, Magento, Joomla!, CakePHP, Yii, and other frameworks. The editor actually 'gets' your code and deeply understands its structure, supporting all the PHP language features for modern and legacy projects. It provides the best code completion, refactorings, on-the-fly error prevention, and more. Make the most of the cutting edge front-end technologies, such as HTML 5, CSS, Sass, Less, Stylus, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Emmet, and JavaScript, with refactorings, debugging, and unit testing available. See the changes instantly in the browser thanks to Live Edit. Perform many routine tasks right from the IDE, thanks to the Version Control Systems integration, support for remote deployment, databases/SQL, command-line tools, Docker, Composer, REST Client, and many other tools.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Developers, engineering teams, software companies, startups, enterprise engineering organizations, product teams, DevOps teams, AI coding teams, code reviewers, and technical leaders that need AI coding agents, autonomous development, cloud agents, parallel task execution, code review, CLI workflows, Slack collaboration, GitHub integration, model choice, automations, and secure software development at scale

Audience

PHP developers

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$20/month
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$199 per user per year
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.2 / 5
ease 4.2 / 5
features 4.8 / 5
design 4.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Cursor is one of the best AI coding tools because it feels built around how developers actually work. It is not just autocomplete; it can understand a repo, make edits, explain code, help debug, and work through bigger tasks with an agentic workflow. I like that it combines the familiar feel of a code editor with deeper AI features like Agent mode, project rules, MCP, skills, and CLI support. That makes it useful for everyday coding, but also flexible enough for more advanced workflows. The model options and pricing controls are also helpful. Being able to choose stronger or cheaper models depending on the task makes Cursor easier to fit into a real development routine.
  • I'm a novice to intermediate programmer and I've always felt a bit overwhelmed by editors. I've been learning to code by copy and pasting a million times into chatgpt. Switching to cursor saves me so much time, and I love how easy it is to give it the context. It has this awesome feature where you can upload docs into it and it can go pull the docs when answering questions, which was one of my biggest pain points as a user when AI would give me old docs or out of date code. Another epic feature was the natural language terminal commands, which have allowed me to get through projects i previously would get stuck on.

Cons

  • I don't have any cons about Cursor. Use it daily in my development.
  • No IDE is perfect, but this one is by far my favorite. I think most of the cons lie in the limitations of the AI models right now. I think the code interpreter is a littley sketchy to use becuase it's hard to see exactly what code its suggesting I change so I ran into some issues when using it without double checking the work, but it also saved me in a couple spots I got stuck.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Clean and customizable interface. Multiple themes and color schemes for personal preference. Simple yet powerful layout for managing files, tools, and navigation. Support for multiple project views and easy file navigation.
  • - The auto-suggestion feature is quite accurate and comes very handy while coding on a big project. - The color themes can be easily customizable according to the user preference. - It supports Git and version control. - It in built assistance feature helps in highlighting errors and give suggestions in real-time.
  • Debugging from browser. Decent support, responsive and to the point. Some search features are good once you learn to use them.
  • Php lacks many advanced IDE like other popular languages but PhpStorm definitely fills the void. It supports all major frameworks and features intelligent autocomplete that understands your code. It has built in developer tools and database support for even most advanced php development. It is also quite affordable for enterprise development.
  • Easy to use & user friendly interface. Autocomplete feature. In-app terminal & ssh support. Supports front end HTML , CSS & JS files. Tons of customization options. Add-ons to support different PHP frameworks.

Cons

  • The sheer number of features and options might overwhelm new users. Some UI elements may seem cluttered when working with larger projects, but this can be customized.
  • - The code initialization and debugging takes a lot of time. - It can be sluggish sometimes when compiling a large code base.
  • A lot. I've thought I'd switch over from phpEd, but honestly, the time I'm spending on trying to figure out how to disable these annoying automatic things, and the amount of time I'm spending communicating with the support is insane. I've easily lost days worth of work-time already. It does a lot of things to "help"; but they don't help but hinder. Some of it can be disabled, some can not. But even those that can be disabled; good luck finding these. Also the key shortcuts are rather weird so plenty of time to reconfigure those. The lack of ability to fold comments only, or open to methods only; no helping this. Then there's the error highlighting; it highlights essentially whole files, just because it just cannot figure out either the smarty syntax(!), or the code structure. There are plenty more, I'm not going to bother to detail it all out. There are things that are in the dev queue for many years now, some would help - but it seems these will never get done.
  • Unlike other tools from Jetbrains it has no Community edition, so beginners or individual users might consider that as a big con.
  • Expensive yearly price. Resource Intensive - takes long time to load.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Cursor
Founded: 2022
United States
www.cursor.com

Company Information

JetBrains
Founded: 2000
Czech Republic
www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/

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Categories

Categories

IDE Features

Code Completion
Compiler
Cross Platform Support
Debugger
Drag and Drop UI
Integrations and Plugins
Multi Language Support
Project Management
Text Editor / Code Editor

Source Code Management Features

Access Controls/Permissions
Bug Tracking
Build Automation
Change Management
Code Review
Collaboration
Continuous Integration
Repository Management
Version Control

Integrations

Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Mythos 5
Claude Mythos 5.1
Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Sonnet 4
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Code Time
GPT-4.1
Laravel
Gemini 3 Pro
Grok 4.1 Thinking
Open Vibe

Integrations

Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Mythos 5
Claude Mythos 5.1
Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Sonnet 4
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Code Time
GPT-4.1
Laravel
Gemini 3 Pro
Grok 4.1 Thinking
Open Vibe
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