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Git in PhpStorm: Branches, Rebase, Stash, and Partial Commits Done Right

Maxim Mironjuk - October 03, 2025

Anyone who only drives Git from the terminal misses out on the most powerful tools PhpStorm offers for visual conflict resolution, interactive rebase, and precise commit selection. This guide shows how the entire Git workflow, from feature branches to cleanly split commits, runs directly inside the IDE.

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Custom Color Schemes in PhpStorm: Optimizing Readability for Long Sessions

Maxim Mironjuk - October 02, 2025

Eight hours in front of the editor is not the exception, it is daily routine for PHP developers. A color scheme that feels pleasant in the morning can become a burden by the afternoon. We show how granular tuning in PhpStorm goes beyond simply picking a theme.

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Configuring Custom TODO Patterns Project-Wide in PhpStorm

Maxim Mironjuk - September 26, 2025

Everyone knows TODO and FIXME, but few teams use the full potential of PhpStorm's TODO system. With custom patterns like MAGENTO-UPGRADE or SECURITY, tasks become visible project-wide and can be worked through by pattern rather than file in the TODO tool window.

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Composer Scripts and Custom Tools in PhpStorm: Casting Buttons

Maxim Mironjuk - September 14, 2025

Anyone who keeps typing phpcs, phpstan or bin/magento cache:flush into the terminal loses time and focus. PhpStorm lets you integrate any Composer script, any shell command and any Docker wrapper script as a button directly in the IDE: clickable, with output in the Run window and optionally triggerable with a keyboard shortcut.

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.env Files in PhpStorm: Inspections and Auto-Completion

Maxim Mironjuk - September 12, 2025

.env files look like plain text files at first glance, but PhpStorm treats them as a dedicated file type with syntax highlighting, inspections, and auto-completion. Used correctly, this prevents exactly the errors that would otherwise only surface at runtime inside the container.

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Setting Up the Docker Interpreter in PhpStorm Correctly

Maxim Mironjuk - September 05, 2025

Anyone who runs PHP inside a Docker container also wants PhpStorm to work with that same PHP version, for autocompletion, navigation, tests and debugging. The Docker interpreter in PhpStorm connects the IDE and the container without requiring PHP to be installed locally. This article shows how to configure it correctly.

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PhpStorm Keymaps, Navigation and Productivity Hacks for Power Users

Maxim Mironjuk - September 01, 2025

Most PhpStorm users use less than 20 percent of the available shortcuts and navigation features. Anyone who learns to move through large PHP codebases without a mouse, run refactorings with keyboard combinations and use multi-cursor editing doubles their productivity in a short amount of time.

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Setting Up IdeaVim in PhpStorm Without Losing Refactoring Power

Maxim Mironjuk - August 30, 2025

IdeaVim brings familiar Vim keybindings to PhpStorm without replacing the IDE's intelligence. Get the base configuration right, and Rename, Extract Method, and Organize Imports stay reachable via their usual shortcuts, keeping every real strength of the IDE intact.

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EditorConfig, Code Style and Team Consistency in PhpStorm

Maxim Mironjuk - August 29, 2025

Inconsistent code isn't born of ill will, it's born of missing tooling. EditorConfig, PHP CS Fixer and PhpStorm inspections together enforce consistent code automatically, with no discussions needed in code review.

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PHPStorm and Docker Compose: Connecting Multiple Services Correctly

Maxim Mironjuk - August 26, 2025

A Docker Compose project with a PHP container, MySQL, Redis, and Nginx is up and running quickly, but fully integrating PHPStorm so that the interpreter, debugger, database data source, and Composer all work from within the IDE requires targeted configuration in several places.