PHPStorm

PHPStorm

Recommended IDE (proprietary).

• Demo Video: https://streamable.com/nnqzg
• Demo Video element() autocomplete (NEW): https://streamable.com/ixrbg

Must have

In Editor => General

• Strip trailing spaces on save for "Modified lines".
• Ensure line feed at file end of Save

In Editor => File Types

• Add *.ctp to PHP

In Editor => Inspections => PHP

• Code smell: Too many parameters in function declaration
• Code style: uncheck Unecessary fully qualified name (we need this for doc blocks)
• General: Static method called as dynamic
• PHPDoc: Missing PHPDoc comment
• Probable bugs: Assignment in condition

In Editor => CodeStyle => PHP

• PHPDOC: Blank line before the first tag
• PHPDOC => Generated Doc Blocks: Use fully-qualified class names
• Other: Blank line before return statement
• Other => Array Declaration Style: Force short declaration style
• Other => Array Declaration Style: Add a comma after last element in multiline array

in Plugins:

• Add EditorConfig plugin.

Further links:

• @return void template

Nice to have

In Languages & Frameworks => PHP => Servers add a new Server with the current (.local) domain. Use the path mapping if you are using a vagrant box like "cakebox".

In Tools => External Tools you can set up cs-sniff and cs-fix and then assign them a keyboard shortcut.