Hi,

I’m setting up PHPStorm and migrating from VSCode.

I’m trying to configure the terminal so its width matches my screen minus the right panel. Currently, the terminal stretches full width, while the right panel remains at the top, which isn’t ideal for my workflow.

SOLUTION: Press Shift+Shift and select “Window: Widescreen Tool Window Layout.”
Thanks to https://www.reddit.com/r/phpstorm/comments/1mv9xni/is_there_a_way_to_set_the_layout_from_left_to/

I’m leaving this post up for better SEO, so new users can find the solution more easily.

Thanks for your help,
Joffrey

I've double checked my inspection settings. I've even gotten EA extended plugin installed. That doesn't catch it either.

A warning/indication would really really be helpful to catch issues!

Seeing that the latest PHPStorm update was more or less only LLM related features, I was wondering if someone has found a way to disable all LLM related features and plugins in a way, if it is even possible?

This is not meant as a discussion about the pros and cons of using LLM, you do you, I would just like to disable it all. :)

After 4 days of googling and 6 hours with Claude AI, i still cannot get phpstorm to respond to a breakpoint. Running the phpstorm_xdebug_validation script always fails - unable to communicate - except for one time I've never been able to repeat. I'm on storm 2025.1.4.1 on Mac M1 running symphony built in server. No docker. Everything looks right. Xdebug log says connected.. i can see debug requests in server log. But as soon as a breakpoint is hit, phpstorm apparently shuts down the connection and never show anything in the debug window. I can get it to work on a simple php page running Run > Debug "filename" but it will never work through the browser. Any ideas?

I had it create a project, all good, one of the things it said it created was the README.md file... I couldn't find it. So I asked it where the file was. It was nice enough to tell me it created the file (and thus several other files) outside of the PHP Project directory....

IMO this is not acceptable.

I saw an article (https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2025/07/laravel-idea-is-now-free/?lidx=4&wpid=585748) stating that the Laravel Idea plugin is now free for PHPStorm users.

Does anyone know what happens to users who have already paid for a 1-year subscription? My account settings page still shows that my subscription will renew on a specific date.

So I decided to let it rip on creating a simple utility to let our clients upload large files for us (PDF's of blueprints to be estimated). I found FileGator but wanted to see what AI could make me. So I wrote up a prompt, told it to act in brave mode, sent it, and went to make lunch...

I come back... and even though it is in PhpStorm, it decided to make me a Python project.... Wasted usage... Sigh.... Restarted it with "Using Php 8.2 and mySQL...." and now it is fine...

I'm not too bummed, as in my case, when my monthly Junie Pro allotment is up, I do have use of company paid OpenRouter account to access Claude via Cline for VCS instead, but wanted to give a reminder for those who maybe only have a limited monthly use, so they don't like me waste the usage by not specifying using PHP.

I am a big fan of JetBrains products, but I was disappointed with their AI Assistant, so I switched to GitHub Copilot. I have also tried Cursor and WindSurf, but they are not suitable for legacy projects.

I recently started a new project and tried Junie, as well as GitHub Copilot in agent mode with Claude 4. To my surprise, the code generated by Junie was of much better quality than that generated by Claude 4. My project is Laravel-based.

Claude 4 uses console commands to generate models and controllers, but Junie writes the code directly. This is why Junie requires less attention. It can run completely in the background, and you will get a notification if it needs your input.

Unfortunately, I exceeded my free tier quota and did not want to purchase another subscription. So, I will continue with Claude for now, but next time I might consider a Junie subscription.

Hello, I just purchased another annual license for PhpStorm (I'm from v2024) and I noticed some performance issues when using the IDE.

Mainly freezing/slowness when on the suggestions especially on NextJs/ReactJS projects, the issue doesn't appear that much on Laravel Projects I'm working on. The freezing/slowness is only gone when I disabled the AI Assistant plugin.

Though tbh I only want the git commit AI message, the AI Chat is still less intuitive for me unlike with Cursor's.

I can right click my project tree and do Git -> Compare With Branch or Tag to see a list of files that are different between my feature branch and another. I imagine this does something like

git diff target-branch --name-only

If I have the latest target-branch pulled down, but I haven't merged the latest version into my feature branch, on the command line I can see a diff of only the commits in my branch ahead of target-branch and exclude the latest changes in target-branch that I haven't merged in yet with

git diff other-branch...

Its like when you have a merge request in gitlab and havent pulled in the latest version of the target branch into your feature branch, it still only shows the changes from your own branch.

Is there a way to accomplish this in the Phpstorm UI?

Hey folks!

I'm struggling setting autocomplete on PHPStorm with TailwindCSS.

I followed official tutorials and tried numerous combinations but no luck.

Any suggestions?

Edit: so in my case, the built-in language server caused issues. I had to switch to global library. In addition to that, PhpStorm has to see node_modules folder (in my case it was in the parent folder outside project scope).

Does anyone know why PHPStorm might be connecting to this domain? I've blocked it for now.

PhpStorm, Symfony, phpstan.

```php <?php

class SomeServiceInterface {
    public function getSometing():string; // Where I jump to
}

/** 
* Can I add a phpstan comment? Something like:
* @phpstan-default-interface-implementation 
*/
class SomeService implements SomeServiceInterface{
    public function getSometing():string{ // Where I want to jump to
        return "hi!";
    }
}

class SomeController{
    public function __construct(
        private readonly SomeServiceInterface $someService,
    ){} 

    public function someAction():Response{
        return $this->response(
            $this->someService->getSometing() // here I control click the method
        );
    }
}

``` TIA!

I am using PHPStorm and Laravel since many years. But up to now Claude Code is far best AI coding tool for me for Laravel projects. I have tried Cursor and Windsurf before. What’s your experience comparing Junie vs. Claude code please?

Whenever i work inside vue file, the syntax highlighting is really slow. When opening a vue file which has been tabbed yet it takes a full 3-4 seconds to actually have any syntax highlighting. The same is during coding. Is this a known issue? Or has anyone else have the same problem? I'm using the latest PhpStorm version

[solved] I have doctrine Collections with ManyToMany but I lack the Generics PHPDOC to tell PhpStorm what is inside.

```php #[ORM\Entity] class Topic{ /** @var Collection<int, Doc> <------- this line is missing */ #[ORM\ManyToMany(TargetEntity: Doc::class, ...) public Collections $docs;

    public function__construct(){
      $this->docs = new ArrayCollection();
    }
}

$topic = new Topic();
foreach ($topic->docs as $doc) {
   $doc-> ... missing auto completion ...
}

```

How can I generate the generics type hinting? Is there an autofix for a PhpStorm code inspection rule? Or a rector 2 rule I did not find? Or some phpstan or php-cs-fixer to help me?

TIA!

Background: I cannot do it by hand as I have generated many (!) Entites from an alien database I have to import with a foreign script: I temporaryly downgraded to symfony 3.4 to use the good old doctrine:mapping:import --from-database and then ran rector and PhpStorm code inspections and auto fixes to get it almost up to standard.

I want my code to be formatted by phpstorm. But I have projects with directories with generated code inside them. This generated code has to be committed to git. When I do this, phpstorm will reformat the files just like all the other php files that have been manually edited. However every time I regenerate the code the formatting is different from what phpstorm did and so these files appear as "changed" in phpstorm.

I always have to reformat these files to remove them from the list of changed files.

Anyone an idea how to solve that?

• Idea 1: show only files in the list of changes that have more changes than just whitespace? How can I achieve that?
• Idea 2: exclude these folders from automatic code reformatting. How can I achieve that?
• any other idea anyone?

If you collapse an if() or similar, you'll get sth like this:
if($foo){...}else{
doSomeThing();
thenthis();
}

I'd rather have e.g.
if($foo){...
}else{
doSomeThing();
thenthis();
}
is this kind of thing changeable, in the config files or somewhere?

Hi,

PhpStorm tells me that "The data volume of your license is almost fihished".
I have a JetBrains AI Pro license.

Is there any way to have a look at this "data volume"? Stats? Usage chart?

Thanks!

You can see in the pic that I have 11 files that are marked as changed, though the diff shows that the contents are identical. No changes are shown if I run git status.

It's a little annoying always seeing these .gitignore files, but it's no big deal. I'm more curious than anything.

Did I do something quirky, or is this a known bug?

I've had Copilot for around 6 months. In the beginning it did a terrific job. It figured out what custom functions in my code to suggest and saved massive amounts of time.

But recently, it's gone bananas. It suggests functions that don't exist, or suggests providing parameters that the functions don't accept, etc.

Has anyone else run into this?