Product Decisions This Supports

Build vs Buy: Eliminates the need to build/maintain custom PHP stubs in-house—JetBrains’ official stubs are battle-tested and updated with each PHP release, saving significant engineering resources.
Feature Prioritization: Enables high-fidelity IDE capabilities (autocomplete, type inference, doc popups) without custom tooling, directly accelerating developer velocity and reducing type-related bugs.
Roadmap Alignment: Critical for PHP version upgrades; ensures development environments match runtime behavior (e.g., PHP 8.3 stubs for PHP 8.3 projects), preventing "works on my machine" issues during upgrades.
Static Analysis Integration: Seamlessly powers tools like PHPStan and Psalm for type-safe code checks in CI pipelines, reducing manual validation efforts and improving code quality.

When to Consider This Package

Adopt When:
- Your team uses PhpStorm, VS Code (with PHP Intelephense), or other stub-compatible IDEs.
- You leverage static analysis tools (PHPStan, Psalm) and need accurate type information for strict type checking.
- Your project relies on standard PHP extensions or well-d