PhpStorm is a lightweight and smart PHP IDE focused on developer productivity that deeply understands your code, provides smart code completion, quick navigation and on-the-fly error checking. It is always ready to help you shape your code, run unit-tests or provide visual debugging.

PhpStorm includes all the functionality of WebStorm (HTML/CSS Editor, JavaScript Editor) and adds full-fledged support for PHP.

With the PhpStorm IDE, you can use the Smarty template engine and take advantage of these productivity features when working with .tpl files:

configurable syntax highlighting for keywords, strings, variables and braces
syntax errors highlighting
Smarty functions and attributes completion
automatic insertion of paired braces, quotes and closing tags
commenting of the selected block with a single hotkey
custom Smarty delimiters support


PhpStorm editor respects PHPDoc in your code and provides appropriate code completion suggestions based on @property, @method...