I am interested in evaluating PhpStorm. I am currently a VSCode user but want tighter integration with my PHP development.
The only feature I see that might be a show stopper is not having a Remote Development feature. A lot of the codebases I work on do not reside on my local machine.
Does PhpStorm currently have this option? Specifically, this has proven to be very beneficial in my day to day operations: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh
Does PhpStorm have remote development built into it?
PhpStorm doesn't have this Remote Development (with SSH) feature currently. Though you could use it to edit remote files directly with SSH: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/editing-individual-files-on-remote-hosts.html but debugging, refactorings, and some other IDE features are not supported for such files.
We do consider supporting the workflow for full remote development support, when you're having sources in one place, building them in another and opening an editor in the third one, but we do not have particular plans to share or ETAs for it, sorry. Please watch this feature request here for update notifications: IDEA-226455.