PHP Command Line Tool Support
PhpStorm supports running commands of popular third-party or user-defined PHP tools: Symfony 1.1+, Symfony2, Zend Framework 1, Zend Framework 2 (ZFTool), Yii, Composer, Drush 5.8+, Laravel and Doctrine (Symfony console-based), WordPress Command Line Interface.
Enable the PHP Command Line Tool Support plugin
This functionality relies on the PHP Command Line Tool Support plugin, which is bundled and enabled in PhpStorm by default. If the relevant features are not available, make sure that you did not disable the plugin.
Press Ctrl+Alt+S to open settings and then select .
Open the Installed tab, find the PHP Command Line Tool Support plugin, and select the checkbox next to the plugin name.
The page shows a list of all PHP-specific and custom command line tools integrated with PhpStorm. Tools with inconsistencies in the .xml descriptor are marked with 
. For more information, refer to PHP command line tools.
Item | Tooltip and shortcut | Description |
|---|---|---|
Enabled | When the checkbox in this column is selected, the commands defined within the corresponding command line tool can be executed from PhpStorm. | |
Alias | In this field, specify the character string to use in command calls instead of the full path to the tool. For example, by default, PhpStorm assigns the following aliases: | |
Interpreter | This read-only field displays the path of the PHP engine for the local or remote PHP interpreter, through which the tool commands are executed. For more information about configuring PHP interpreters, refer to Configure local PHP interpreters and Configure remote PHP interpreters. | |
Tool Path | In this field, specify the location of the tool's executable file. | |
Type | This read-only field shows the official name of the third party command line tool. The column is available only if the Show tool type checkbox is selected. For custom command line tools, the fields in this column are empty. | |
Show tool type | If this checkbox is selected, the Type column is added to the table of available tools. | |
| Add Alt+Insert | Click this button to open the Command Line Tools dialog and select the tool to integrate with PhpStorm. Depending on your choice, PhpStorm opens one of the following dialogs for specifying the location of the selected tool: |
| Remove Alt+Delete | Click this button to remove the selected tool from the list. |
| Edit | Click this button to change the definition file of the selected tool. |
| Reload command list from executable | Click this button to refresh the list of commands of the selected tool. |
| Open definition in editor | Click this button to open the .xml file with commands of the selected tool in the editor. See Define your own command line tool. |
