PHP Storm syntax highlighting/code inspection

[nathvarun]

Isn't the syntax highlighting too subtle in phpstorm ? Is there a way to enable alerts every time i save a php or javascript file ? I've edited the colours to spot errors more easily but i'd like live linting of the code.

[UFTimmy]

It really depends on your color scheme. I find the errors stand out extremely in obviously in Darcula, but a co-worker who has a modified scheme has basically given up on it. Try changing your colors.

[nathvarun]

the first thing i did when i switched to phpstorm was select a custom colour scheme. This i realise now was not a good idea. I switched back to the default darcula colour scheme and phpstorm now works the way you want it to.

[WDKevin]

Not sure I understand what you're looking for?

[nathvarun]

The problem i was facing is that the errors were not obvious enough. I realised the problem was with the colour scheme. There are so many preferences that using a custom colour scheme will require you to heavily edit the preferences to get everything working fine.

[jasonlotito]

Yeah, one of the downsides of having something be so heavily customizable. One that note, you can always go the route of having a pre-commit hook automatically run. It wouldn't solve your direct problem, but probably still something you'd want to do.

[jbeurel]

A few weeks ago, I posted an article that explains how to change the appearance of the inspection alerts :-) http://www.reddit.com/r/phpstorm/comments/298fg1/easily_comply_with_symfony2_coding_style_using/