XF 2.1 PHP Storm

[Ozzy47]

Do I have seen, and been told that PHP Storm is the way to go for XF development.

Once I purchase it, how do I set it up to read from the core of XF and help me write my addons?

 

[TickTackk]

How were you writing add-ons currently?

 

[Ozzy47]

All by hand. Figuring out what I wanted to change and then looking what is where.

 

[TickTackk]

If you're using Windows you could go with:

• WSL1
• Vagrant
• Docker
• XAMPP/WAMPP
• Hyper-V (requires Pro)

When using WSL, Docker or Hyper-V you're going to end up having a bit more complex setup which would require you to make use of PHP Storm's built in deployment tools to sync add-on files.

 

[Ozzy47]

And then here we are back at wayyy over my paygrade.

 

[SneakyDave]

XF 2.0 - Get a free development environment for XenForo up and running in minutes

I thought it would be good to document how you can configure and run a near-zero-maintenance, pre-packaged virtual machine to use as your development server for XenForo, without having to install a load of low-level stuff on your computer. So I did: https://xenforo.com/xf2-docs/dev/scotchbox/...

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PHP Storm has built in vagrant support.

Debugging with PHP Storm:

Debug with PhpStorm: Ultimate Guide | PhpStorm

www.jetbrains.com

 

[Alpha1]

General concepts | Developer Documentation | XenForo

Developer documentation for XenForo

xenforo.com

What IDE do you use?

I know there's been a thread about this already, but as far as I know it's about four years old. Just curious, what IDE do you use for development (specifically for XenForo add-ons, but PHP in general)? Reply with your reasons why if you wish. Some major ones are in the poll. Here are some...

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Which PHP IDE? / What do you use to code?

Kier stated, in his interview that he suggests that developers using the XenForo platform use an IDE. Kier and Mike use Eclipse PDT (though I'm sure I've seen Kier, at least, use Zend Studio). I know Zend Studio and PDT are virtually nearly the same, however, what do you recomment we use?

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[Chris D]

Which PHP IDE? / What do you use to code?

Kier stated, in his interview that he suggests that developers using the XenForo platform use an IDE. Kier and Mike use Eclipse PDT (though I'm sure I've seen Kier, at least, use Zend Studio). I know Zend Studio and PDT are virtually nearly the same, however, what do you recomment we use?

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Kier and Mike (and I) certainly don't use the same IDE we used to use nearly 10 years ago.

We do use PhpStorm now and have done for several years. In fact, it might be that we've used PhpStorm longer now than we used anything else

 

[Alpha1]

Yes, you stated that in the same thread.

Which PHP IDE? / What do you use to code?

For the PHPEd guys, looks like version 11 was just released. :)

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Its indeed an old thread. (2010-2015) I found it informative to read through though.

 

[Xon]

phpstorm is utterly worth it's cost. No way I could maintain all my XF2 add-ons without it, and has massively cut down on various classes of bugs for my XF2 add-ons.

phpstorm's ability to infer type information and detect type conflicts is critical

I use the fairly simple to configure auto-deployment rules to push code to a VM which contains production-like software instead of developing on Windows and having things behave very differently to production.

 

[Alpha1]

I use the fairly simple to configure auto-deployment rules to push code to a VM which contains production-like software instead of developing on Windows and having things behave very differently to production.

That makes a lot of sense. There's a very significant difference in bugs between many (not all) developers developing on windows and those testing on production like software.

 

[kick]

Writing a code in a notebook in 2019 Moveton. PhPStorm is the best development environment for writing code with tons of plugins and features. In addition to all this, you need to consider that it is very difficult to build a large project without a development environment and its capabilities to track any classes and not only.