Make PhpStorm use same settings for all projects

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I'm really wondering how I can just set and use the exact same settings for every single one of my PHP projects in PhpStorm.

I mean they really made this difficult. You'd think that a developer would want to use the exact same settings in every project, right?

Well apparently I have to re-set my settings for every single project. So annoying. How do I just make all my projects use the exact same settings without having to screw around every time I open a new project?

1) What kind of settings? Concrete examples please. Because some are (or can be) IDE-wide (e.g. Code Style/Inspection Profile) and some are project-specific only. 2) Are we talking about new projects only or existing ones? — LazyOne
Why you not copy .idea folder to the new project to get your config? — Sakura Kinomoto
Use the Default settings option instead of the standard Settings, jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/2017.1/… — Will B.

Vlad Luchansky Vlad Luchansky · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-29T12:24:24

In File > Default Settings you can set the options that would be applied to all new projects created afterwards. Note that some settings are project-specific so you cannot make them default for every other project.

Make PhpStorm use same settings for all projects

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