PHPStorm

PHPSTORM is an IDE and Sublime is a text editor.

PhpStorm is an IDE. Inspects the project's code to provide help and insight as you're coding, has a debugger, more of a everything including the kitchen sink.

Sublime is an editor, however, can install plugins to enhance it's features and is fast.

You might also want to look at VSCode (there is a recent video series on here) which you can download which is rather popular lately that has many features too.

PhpStorm can be a one time purchase. When you purchase it, you get the currently released version and all updates until your subscription is up. If you don't renew that subscription you still have it, just not any newer versions.

So this is the price :

US $ 199.00 /1st year US $ 159.00 /2nd year US $ 119.00 /3rd yr onwards

My first time purchase should be US $199.00 and if I decide to upgrade on the third year it will be US $119.00 is that correct?

I still do not know how much helpful is that compare to sublime?

I am in the middle of downloading all the phpstorm tutorials just to see if it is worth it.

I think you're looking at business pricing

Individual is $89 for the first year

You can also download and try it for a month.

Also check out the new series https://laracasts.com/series/visual-studio-code-for-php-developers I'm a bit too busy right now to dive in and try a new editor but it looks rather nice

Sublime text or any of the other excellent editors won't come close to the power of something like an IDE.

But you'll find there's some great plugins for any editor for helping with PHP / Laravel development.

I use VS Code with a few plugins and I'm very happy with it. I think JW has a series on PHP and VS Code.

I've been using Sublime for about six years, haven't missed PHPStorm at all.

Since Jeffrey made the VScode course available I've switched to that, as it's a really nice IDE too.

To be fair, if you're here asking questions about why it's paid software and having to watch tutorials to see if it's worth it: it's probably not. Stick with Sublime, switch to Code. They're both free to use and will probably offer enough for you to work with.

enjoying php storm on my linux os