I then emailed back links to topics in these forums where it is stated that if you want to upgrade from Webstorm to Phpstorm you should use the contact form, and that I was not trying to "move from product to product to product" but instead upgrade from a product that has less features to a different version of the same product that has more features. The sales person responded back that there was no path for the upgrade, but that since I had been a customer for several years (using Resharper since 2005) I could get a $25 discount on a new license of Phpstorm. I went ahead and purchased a new license of Phpstorm using the $25 "customer loyalty" discount, but emailed sales back saying I was not very pleased that their lack of an upgrade path meant I wasted money on a piece of software that is now totally useless to me. I got no response back.īeing a developer for the last 12 years and having both PHP storm and Web Storm I would like to add they are infact the same only different. The product description pages of either product does not convey that properly. Instead it uses the cryptic loosely written statement "PhpStorm includes all the functionality of WebStorm" and doesn't specify details, which makes that statements intention appear more as a marketing tactic than a fact. You can add almost all of the "Web" functionality that WebStorm has to PHPstorm but it is not installed by default and often created by third parties. The layout and functionality of the two platforms are a bit different to where each specializes in its own area to make programming in the specific language that much faster/easier. PHPstorm obviously has more system and environment languages available, but Webstorm is better suited for java/angular/typescript/etc projects. I also like having the second IDE because most of todays projects have a front end and backend on two different services / serversĪnd adds full-fledged support for PHP and Databases/SQL.I think it's a mistake not to have a community edition for WebStorm. I can't count the number of online classes, YouTube videos, conference demos, and other presentations I've seen over the last year that used the free VS Code IDE. In fact, I'm not sure I've ever seen a conference talk or YouTube tutorial that used WebStorm.
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