Introduction
Installing PHP Storm in Windows seems quite like a piece of cake. But when it comes to installing PHP Storm in Ubuntu, non-nerds or noobs find it a bit tricky to get it installed on their machines.
Step 1
Download the fresh copy of PHP Storm from their website.
Step 2
Unzip your files to /opt directory(recommended) by running the following command in your terminal.
$sudo tar xf PhpStorm-*.tar.gz -C /opt/
Step 3
Once the extraction is done, switch to the bin folder inside the PHP Storm directory.
$cd /opt/PhpStorm/bin
Step 4
Run the shell file to launch PHP Storm.
$./PHPStorm.sh
Step 5
Once the installation is complete, the application will ask if you want to import your old settings. If not, leave it as it is.
Additional Tips
Apart from installing & launching PHP Storm for the first time. Below are some of the useful tips for the beginners.
Create a Desktop Entry
Creating a desktop entry lets you easily access PHP Storm from system menu with better desktop integration.
To enable this functionality. Goto menu->tools->create-desktop-entry
Create a Command-line Launcher
For the ones with bit of experience using the terminal & finds easy playing around with commands. This features comes handy for them.
Enabling this will let you open up your PHP Storm by typing just a single command inside your project's directory. Goto menu->tools->create-command-line-launcher
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For example: We are inside the /var/www/html/foobar/ directory.
$pstorm .
The above command will open up a new PHP Storm instance of the current directory.
Note: PHP Storm is a really powerful IDE which helps you understand your code deeply & supports almost all popular frameworks. But sadly, it comes with a 30-day free trial period only. After that I would suggest you to buy the full license from their website. It doesn't cost much.
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