

Any time you have a directory that you don't want PHPStorm to look into, or that you just don't want to see, you can hide it. I use these to help me build this tutorial - but when I'm coding, I don't want to see them. Over here on the left, you can see the tuts and knpu directories. And now I can change the font size to 14 and give it a line spacing of say 1.2. So first let's click 'save as' so we can customize this, save it as 'darcula mine'. I can't immediately change the font size I've got because that would change the Darcula scheme. Let's pick font here and there's font size. This pulls up a few things, general appearance, colors & fonts. On Windows and Linux, it's the longer Ctrl+ Alt+ S - you can check out the key mappings under the keymap section, to see and simplify these. Back to preferences, on a mac its shortcut is ⌘, so I'll start using that. Speaking of eyes, I'd like to see my font size a bit bigger here. Staring into a white screen for 1,000+ hours a year is very similar to just staring at a lightbulb - not so great on the eyes. This is the theme of the UI which also goes and sets the scheme for the editor.


Let's clean that up first: open up preferences and in Appearance under Appearance & Behavior you can select your theme, change that to Darcula. If I open any of my files right now you'll see that they look pretty ugly. So download your own copy and let's customize this thing together. I'm working with a fresh version of PHPStorm, this is not how I want my development environment to look - all this white is stressing me out. For even deeper information about PhpStorm settings and shortcuts, youĬan also check out Beginner's Guide to PhpStorm - Tips & Tricks.
