Item: PhpStorm
Rating: 9
Author: Diego Pacheco

Overall Satisfaction with PhpStorm

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The University's development team used PhpStorm.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Version Control: Git, Subversion, and Others.
Alerts about code being developed, alerts like errors, discontinuation of some function, suggestions for improvements.
Application database access can run SQL commands directly from PhpStorm without having to have any other clients open.
Shortcut keys that assist in the coding process.

Cons

After some version updates, the application started to slow down to initialize or perform some operations.
The process for initializing the source code debugging is a bit obscure, so I had to resort to videos teaching how to execute.

Return on Investment

We couldn't calculate the ROI because the systems developed were for the public university itself.

Alternatives Considered

Notepad++, Eclipse, Zend Studio and Sublime Text

Two things were decisive for choosing PhpStorm, and the first was the Education version since we were a university we were able to license for free, and the other was that we just had to use a single tool to develop our activities (coding, versioning), and operations in the DB).
Another point was that the application is cross-platform.

Support Rating

When we got in touch to apply for free university licenses, the PhpStorm (JetBrains) team was very attentive and prompt, sending us the required number of licenses quickly

Key Insights

Do you think PhpStorm delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with PhpStorm's feature set?

Yes

Did PhpStorm live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of PhpStorm go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy PhpStorm again?

Yes

Other Software Used

PyCharm, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Power BI

Likelihood to Recommend

It is ideal for backend or even frontend developers. With versioning facilities and access to different databases, all in one application.
Not interesting when you need to make minor adjustments/maintenance to third party codes, punctual things since it takes a long time to initialize.

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