PhpStorm on Ubuntu

JetBrains PhpStorm is a commercial, cross-platform IDE for PHP built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA platform. PhpStorm is built on IntelliJ IDEA, which is written in Java.

Install Oracle Java JDK

• Step 1: Remove existing OpenJDK

  $ sudo apt-get purge openjdk*
  

• Step 2: Install Oracle Java 8

  $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
  $ sudo apt-get update
  $ sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
  

• Step 3: Set Java Environment Variable

  $ sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default
  

Download PhpStorm package and move to /opt directory

$ cd /tmp
$ curl -s -L http://download.jetbrains.com/webide/PhpStorm-7.1.4.tar.gz | tar -xz
$ sudo mv PhpStorm-133.1777 /opt/phpstorm

Run PhpStorm and Create desktop entry

$ /opt/phpstorm/bin/phpstorm.sh

Now run "Tools > Create Desktop entry"