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I've been using PhpStorm for a few years now. After going through several time-wasting periods of trying out every IDE I could get my hands on to see what I liked, I ended up and have stayed with PhpStorm because it is hands down the most feature-full, fast, stable and up-to-date IDE for PHP (and HTML/JS!) development.

It also does not hurt that they're going on a Vagrant rampage and have been showing off my app, https://puphpet.com :)

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I always remember the name as "PHPuppet" :(

I always pronounce it "PU PHP Pet." Which I guess is logical because elephants.

I recently decided the correct pronunciation is "puff-et"... like "elephpant"!

That's how I pronounce it too, also love that tool. Much love <3

First time I see this tool. Looks really sweet! Only things that are missing for my usage is ppa:ondrej/php5 for latest php and Percona instead of MySQL with an option to push in custom my.cnf from within configuring a vm, if that's possible.

If you choose Ubuntu and 5.4/5.5 you're going to use Ondrej's repo.

The problem with that is that Ondrej's 5.5 repo comes with Apache 2.4+ and the Apache Puppet module I'm using only supports up to Apache 2.2 - so Ubuntu + Apache + PHP 5.5 will not work right now, but Nginx will.

Or use Debian.

Sounds good in my case, because I use php-fpm with nginx anyways! Great work. By using MySQL usage for dev is pretty much the same as with Percona, it would've been nicer though to have Percona (or MariaDB if other people use that) instead of actual MySQL though, because you never know if there will be some incompatibility issues.

PRs are accepted :)

Thank you for puphpet! Great tool!

I love the elephant puppet mascot.

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