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What are the best IDEs for PHP with discounts for students?

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PhpStorm vs IntelliJ IDEA vs NetBeans

Specs

Multi Language Support

Yes

Auto Complete

Yes

Bracket Matching

Yes

Code Templates

Yes

Plugin Manager

Yes

Cross Platform

Yes

Git

Yes

Integrated Debugger

Yes

Error Markup

Yes

Source Control Integration

Yes

Extension language

JVM

Unit Testing

Yes

Database management

Yes

Supported remote file editing protocols

FTP; SFTP

Column selection

Yes

Go To Definition

Yes

Refactoring

Yes

Code Analysis

Yes

Find References

Yes

Deployment

Remote Deployment To Multiple Hosts

Version Control

Yes

Find Usage

Yes

Completion

Yes

Platforms

-

Snippets

-

Plugin

-

Multi Language Support

-

Auto Complete

-

Bracket Matching

-

Code Templates

-

Plugin Manager

-

Cross Platform

-

Git

-

Integrated Debugger

-

Error Markup

-

Source Control Integration

-

Extension language

-

Unit Testing

-

Database management

-

Supported remote file editing protocols

-

Column selection

-

Go To Definition

-

Refactoring

-

Code Analysis

-

Find References

-

Deployment

-

Version Control

-

Find Usage

-

Completion

-

Platforms

Windows, Linux, Mac

Snippets

-

Plugin

-

Multi Language Support

Yes

Auto Complete

Yes

Bracket Matching

Yes

Code Templates

Yes

Plugin Manager

Yes

Cross Platform

-

Git

-

Integrated Debugger

-

Error Markup

-

Source Control Integration

-

Extension language

-

Unit Testing

-

Database management

-

Supported remote file editing protocols

-

Column selection

-

Go To Definition

-

Refactoring

-

Code Analysis

-

Find References

-

Deployment

-

Version Control

-

Find Usage

-

Completion

-

Platforms

Windows, macOS, Linux

Snippets

Yes

Plugin

Yes

Pros + Cons

Pro
 Has database management tools right from the IDE

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 Smart PHP Code Editor

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 PHPDoc support

PHPDoc is a documentation generator. It allows automatically generating documentation from specifically formatted comments.
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 External command support

Ability to setup custom external commands, which is something inherited from eclipse and found lacking on netbeans.
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 Auto sync remote folder 

It allows monitoring code and sync the files that need to be changed with a remote server. This works more efficiently than libnotify and faster than vagrant auto rsync.
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 Phar package recognition

Phar support allows running complete applications out of .phar files.
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 Integration with an Issue Tracking System

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 Integrated FTP tools

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 Fast and smart contextual assistance

Uses a fast indexing technique to provide contextual hints (auto-completion, available object members, import suggestions). On-the-fly code analysis to detect errors and propose refactorization.
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Pro
 Intuitive and slick UI

IDEA has a clean, intuitive interface with some customization available (such as the Darcula theme).
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Pro
 Support for many languages

IntelliJ supports many languages besides Java, some of these are: golang, Scala, Clojure, Groovy, Bash, etc...
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Pro
 Clear and detailed documentation

The documentation is exhaustive, easy to navigate and clearly worded.
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Pro
 Lots of plugins

Many plugins are available for almost any task a developer may need to cover. Plugins are developed by Jetbrains themselves or by 3rd parties through the SDK available for writing them.
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Pro
 Free version available

There is a free community edition (open source) and an ultimate edition, which you can compare here. The ultimate edition is available for free for one year for students but must be registered through an .edu e-mail account.
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Pro
 Android support, JavaEE support, ...

A very complete development environment support.
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Pro
 Stable and robust

Nothing like Eclipse, you don't have to restart projects from start just because they were corrupted by the IDE! Also loads much faster than Eclipse.
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 Smart refactorings

IDEA places an emphasis in safe refactoring, offering a variety of features to make this possible for a variety of languages. These features include safe delete, type migration and replacing method code duplicates.
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Con
 Built with closed source components

The version with full features is not opensource. Parts of the code are under apache licence though.
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 Bugs not solved

They are more interested in adding new features or issuing new versions than solving bugs.
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 Cannot open multiple projects in the same window

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 Somewhat expensive

IntelliJ IDEA is fairly expensive, with a pricetag of $149/year. However there is a free community edition available.
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Con
 «standard» hotkeys behave differently

Seems like hotkeys assignment in Idea have no logical consistency. Like «F3» is usually next match, «Ctrl+W» - close tab, etc — they map to some different action by default. There is a good effort in making the IDE friendly for immigrants from other products: there are options to use hotkeys from Eclipse, and even emacs. But these mappings are very incomplete. And help pages do not take this remapping into account, rather mentioning the standard hotkeys. So, immigrants are doomed to using mouse and context menus (which are rather big and complex).
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Pro
 PHPUnit support

PHPUnit is a testing framework. You can create test classes, run and see the code coverage directly from IDE interface.
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Pro
 Best for PHP, HTML5 Apps Developemt

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 Supports Twig templates

NetBeans provides code completion and documentation for all Twig elements.
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Pro
 Linux terminal inside IDE

You can run Linux terminal inside the IDE.
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 FTP/SFTP synchronization

Supports synchronization with projects stored remotely through FTP or SFTP.
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 Multiple revision control system integration

Has built-in support for the most popular revision control systems
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 Supports community plugins

NetBeans can be extended beyond the basic tool that you get out of the box through community made custom plugins.
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 ApiGen and PHPDoc support

Supports documentation generation through ApiGen and PHPDoc.
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 Grunt and Gulp Task Runner support

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 Frameworks support

Supports Symfony1, Symfony2 & Zend frameworks.
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 Free and cross-platform

NetBeans is a free, GPL-licensed IDE. It can can run on any computer with a Java virtual machine. If a computer has a Java virtual machine (JVM), Netbeans can run on it. Netbeans can therefore run on a variety of operating systems such as Windows, *nix, and Mac OS.
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Pro
 Composer commands inside IDE

The most used composer commands can be done directly from IDE.
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Pro
 Bower support

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 ApiGen support

ApiGen allows automatically generating documentation from specifically formatted comments. It's easy to use, supports traits, allows fuzzy searching for classes and highlighting docblocks using Markdown.
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Pro
 Free, open source and cross-platform  

NetBeans is a free, GPL-licensed IDE. It can can run on any computer with a Java virtual machine. If a computer has a Java virtual machine (JVM), Netbeans can run on it. Netbeans can therefore run on a variety of operating systems such as Windows, *nix, and Mac OS. Being open source means that developers can contribute changes to the code to have the IDE better serve them.
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Pro
 Powerful debugging and performance optimization

Netbeans not only debugs your code, and points out errors but also gives you hints on which sections of your code could be further optimized.
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Pro
 Less and Sass Compiler support

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 Accelerated HTML5 development support

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Pro
 JMeter benchmarking tool support

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Con
 Slows down occasionally

The Netbeans IDE is known to take a large memory as compared to other lighter IDE's available in the market. Slowdown can decrease productivity and frustrate programmers.
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