Getting the most out of PHPStorm for Drupal 8
summary
Practical tour of PHPStorm for Drupal 8 showing exact workflows: enabling Drupal coding standards with phpcs/phpmd, running phpcbf to fix nine issues automatically, using the Symfony + Drupal plugins for annotation and service autocomplete, navigating with Ctrl‑B/Alt‑F7 (example: 137 usages found), refactoring class/method names safely, and full Xdebug integration with conditional breakpoints, evaluate expression and set value; also covers composer patches, vendor path mappings, and notes that Xdebug can significantly slow page loads.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:45PHPStorm setup basics
- 7:34Code sniffing and standards
- 13:17Navigating code efficiently
- 21:44Writing boilerplate code
- 30:24Debugging with Xdebug
- 45:53Patching and version control
- 55:58Q&A
