PHPStorm

• Font ligatures: Setting -> Editor -> Font -> Enabled ligatures

1. Install Xdebug
2. Settings -> PHP -> Debug
3. Settings -> PHP -> Server
4. Enabled Debug Mode P/S: If you’re using Docker. You need to setup mapping path firstly.

Use Live Templates to create a custom snippets such as loops, conditions, print statements,…

1. Go to Settings -> Editors -> Live Templates
2. Click + button to add a new live template
3. Give your template a name and a description

// Print array
echo '<pre>';
print_r($END$);
die;

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By default, PHPStorm allows full CPU usage (100%). Therefore the CPU is overloaded

• For indexing only Go to: Help -> Edit Custom Properties

caches.indexerThreadsCount=4
caches.scanningThreadsCount=4

• For all (Include Search Files,…) Go to: Help → Edit Custom VM Options

-XX:ActiveProcessorCount=4

To improve performance, please exclude and ignore some directories and files that don’t use to scan & index (Such as log file, symlink,…)

• Directories exclude: File → Setting → Directories → Select unused folder to exclude
• Ignore files: File → setting → Editor → File Types → Ignore Files and Folder → Add a new record P/S: If you have multiple project with the same platform. You can use shared indexes for these one Go to: File → Setting → Tools → Shared Indexes → Enable “Wait for shared indexes” (Updated: From Version PhpStorm 2023.3.1 it has been changed PHP Composer Packaged → Download Automatically)