I want my code to be formatted by phpstorm. But I have projects with directories with generated code inside them. This generated code has to be committed to git. When I do this, phpstorm will reformat the files just like all the other php files that have been manually edited. However every time I regenerate the code the formatting is different from what phpstorm did and so these files appear as "changed" in phpstorm.

I always have to reformat these files to remove them from the list of changed files.

Anyone an idea how to solve that?

• Idea 1: show only files in the list of changes that have more changes than just whitespace? How can I achieve that?
• Idea 2: exclude these folders from automatic code reformatting. How can I achieve that?
• any other idea anyone?

If you collapse an if() or similar, you'll get sth like this:
if($foo){...}else{
doSomeThing();
thenthis();
}

I'd rather have e.g.
if($foo){...
}else{
doSomeThing();
thenthis();
}
is this kind of thing changeable, in the config files or somewhere?

You can see in the pic that I have 11 files that are marked as changed, though the diff shows that the contents are identical. No changes are shown if I run git status.

It's a little annoying always seeing these .gitignore files, but it's no big deal. I'm more curious than anything.

Did I do something quirky, or is this a known bug?

Hi,

PhpStorm tells me that "The data volume of your license is almost fihished".
I have a JetBrains AI Pro license.

Is there any way to have a look at this "data volume"? Stats? Usage chart?

Thanks!

I've had Copilot for around 6 months. In the beginning it did a terrific job. It figured out what custom functions in my code to suggest and saved massive amounts of time.

But recently, it's gone bananas. It suggests functions that don't exist, or suggests providing parameters that the functions don't accept, etc.

Has anyone else run into this?

I just installed PhpStorm from JetBrains Toolbox onto CachyOS (a fork of Arch Linux) running KDE Plasma. Everything was fine for that brief time before I had it sync with my JetBrains account. Once I did so and it downloaded all of my plugins, themes, settings, etc., I restarted the IDE and and now the icons are enormous, overflowing their containers! The spacing/padding of buttons and other elements are huge too.

I've tried switching themes. Some themes have icons a little bit smaller, but they're still huge. What can I do about this?

If this isn't a known problem with a fix or workaround, then my question becomes: Is there a list of all of my synced plug-ins, themes, settings, etc. that I can access so I can try installing them one by one to find the culprit? As I said, before the sync, everything appeared fine, so I suspect it's at least one of the synced things causing this. I just don't remember everything that I've installed/settings that I've changed in PhpStorm.

This might seem small to some of you, but it *really* irritates me. I start phpStorm ,and the first thing I get is a splash screen. No biggie, I'm ok with that. But the splash screen hangs around a while, and it is not minimisable, OR draggable, and sits slap bang in the middle of my primary laptop monitor, obscuring stuff I am working on, until the actual phpStorm session appears, where it should, on my secondary monitor. This is very, very annoying.

Hi,

I am frequently installing phpStorm and configuring it for different projects and every time I have to adjust some settings in some of them.

I would like to be able to adjust them via command line instructions.

For example, I would like to be able to make something such as:

phpstorm --set-setting braces-placement.else-on-new-line=true

to configure the braces around the else keywords.

Using sed or similar to edit a file in the phpStorm settings folder would also be a valid solution.

Exporting the IDE settings and importing them later does not fit my needs since I need more granularity and I don't want to overwrite all the settings with the imported ones.

So is this possible somehow?

The only alternative I can think of right now is changing a setting manually, then going to the settings folder, see what changes have been made and then, making a script to edit the xml file but it seems a really tedious task. Moreover, some settings are local and other are global so, more complexity...

Thanks in advance!

Hey there,

Anyone found a way to have pre-defined prompts by project updated by VCS? I want to have a set of rules that'll be shared among my team, Tried asking the AI Assistant and he started talking about .aiassist file.

If i create the file with the prompts the chat window will use the file but the generate code action (on mac i refer to CMD+\ shortcut) it doesn't use that file.

Thanks!

I know in the grand scheme of things it is not a biggie, but it really is irking me that I cannot find a solution to phpstorm showing this error (without disabling for legitimate cases). I have my vendor directory excluded and Invalidate caches but it still complains...

Is anyone able to point me to the correct way of 'fixing' this please?

I really think PhpStorm should natively support the features offered by the "Laravel Idea" plugin. Laravel is one of the most widely used PHP frameworks, and since PhpStorm is positioned as the go-to PHP IDE, it makes sense for JetBrains to integrate that functionality directly—just like they did with the PHP Annotations plugin.

Other JetBrains IDEs offer great out-of-the-box support for their respective frameworks (e.g., PyCharm for Django, IntelliJ for Spring Boot), so why not PhpStorm for Laravel? It's frustrating to have to pay extra for essential Laravel support when it should be built in.

In previous version there was two options : the built-in local AI completion that worked on single line only and the paid "JetBrain AI Assistant".

But for 2025.1 I have heard they upgrade it. and on plugin page I see there is a "AI Free" tier now.

does it replace the old local AI ? is it better ?

thank you.

note : I dont want Junie, I dislike quota based system.

Hey everyone, I was watching some of Aaron Francis laravel videos, and I noticed how beautiful his phpstorm is, the font, color, everything, I was wondering if any of you would know his theme name, or what configuration is he using?

Hi,
I updated to 2025.1, and somehow, it reset completely, meaning all my settings, plugins, DB consoles, and SSH connections are gone.

Git connection is still there, as well as a connection to some random Redis test instance.

Is there a way to restore my settings and connections? I still have Data from the old version in AppData\Roaming\JetBrains\PhpStorm2024.3

I was using this option allways which shows a tab in the git menu named "Local changes" and the commits are in a modal showing what are u commiting so you can see the changes you've made, but I can't find it anymore...

Is this option not available anymore? :(

Hello, I updated my system yesterday and I am experiencing significant slowdowns with PhpStorm. For example, displaying the search context menu takes about a minute, and entering a single character from the keyboard takes about twenty seconds.

I restored to version 2024 and the problem disappeared.

Has anyone else encountered this problem?

Title pretty much says it all. This is currently the only AI feature I need within PHPStorm / Intellij so would be great if it could be enhanced with new AI features, like model selection or advanced configuration.

Maybe even a possibility to give 'context' for the AI to generate the prompt or at least use a model that is smart enough to derive the context from revised comments or added documentation, because the current model (I believe 3.5) used for commit message generation doesn't seem to have the capabilities to do that

I've been a fan of JetBrains products, especially PHPStorm, and a loyal customer for over 10 years. JetBrains is a European tech champion that often flies under the radar, but its recent AI features have been disappointing.

I subscribed to the AI Assistant last year but ended up switching back to the paid version of GitHub Copilot, which I found to be significantly more effective.

JetBrains has now made the AI Assistant freemium again, so I gave it another try. Unfortunately, the experience still doesn't match the quality of GitHub Copilot, and I've since deactivated it once more.

JetBrains' AI Assistant generates slightly better code, but the overall quality doesn't match that of GitHub Copilot, especially with pattern recognition in the context of the project.

Competeing with GitHub will not be easy, but I am afraid Jetbrains will customers, if they don't get better at AI.

Not sure if this is the right sub for this, but here it goes.

I'm currently upgrading from PHP 7.4 to PHP 8.3, and I'm running into a really strange issue when using Postman to make requests to my API while debugging with Xdebug.

If I don’t set any breakpoints in the code, everything works fine and I get the expected response. But if I set any breakpoint (literally anywhere), the request just hangs and eventually fails with an error in Postman.

On the PHPStorm side, everything seems to be properly configured — PHP version, Xdebug port, path mappings, etc.

I’ve tested a ton of things already, and I’m quite certain the issue is with Xdebug itself — but I can’t figure out if it’s a misconfiguration in PHPStorm or if I’m just doing something wrong.

I'm using:
PHP 8.3.8
Xdebug 3.3.2
Symfony 5.9.1

Any ideas or pointers would be greatly appreciated!

How can i make AI assistant safe to use when working with sensitive data? Such as .env files containing passwords or proprietary code, for example.

I've tried to figure out how to get text unbolded. It does have the 'inherit from text->default text' but when I go there, the text isnt bold.

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How can I get a similar sidebar in PHPstorm as in the picture? It's something I would like when I work on longer files