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intellij is good all in all, but then if you want to edit php, you have to use its sibling product; phpstorm

furthermore, netbeans can recognize various amount of extension and can even format your codes nicely with alt + shift + f

and i only use intellij when i want to deploy mobile application onto android...eclipse really dam buggy with the deployment

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Can't you just download the php plugin for intellij ultimate?

You can. The plugins for IntelliJ IDEA lag behind their separate-product counterparts, though: improvements to Python appear in PyCharm months before, same with PHP in WebStorm, etc.

WebStorm is a much better IDE for PHP, but if your primary language is Java, then the PHP plugin is more than sufficient.

Your comparison shows that you just don't know anything about IntelliJ, so why bother?

CTRL+ALT+L to reformat code. Either a selection, a file, a directory, a scope, the whole project etc.

You can use most PHP features in InstelliJ, just install the plugins.

IntelliJ recognizes extensions and even notifies you that it has plugins that may be installed for the open extension.

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