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title: Quick Project Switching in PhpStorm
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date: 2018-09-04
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excerpt: How to quickly switch between projects in PhpStorm.
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tags:
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- phpstorm
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---
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Following a recent conversation on Twitter with
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[socketwench](https://twitter.com/socketwench) about project switching in
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PhpStorm, I thought I’d document my workflow here.
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Here is the original tweet and my initial response. I also have a lot of
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PhpStorm projects, and as I’m always working on multiple projects I regularly
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need to switch between them.
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{% include 'tweet' with {
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content: '<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I think you can start typing and it will filter?</p>— Oliver Davies (@opdavies) <a href="https://twitter.com/opdavies/status/1034472920532365312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2018</a>',
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} %}
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On the PhpStorm welcome screen that displays when you first open it, your recent
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projects are displayed on the left-hand side of the screen, and are filterable.
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That means that I can start typing a project name, e.g. `oli`, and I will only
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see projects that start with that input.
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That’s great when opening a project from scratch, but what about when we’re
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already within a project and just want to be able to switch to another?
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{% include 'tweet' with {
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content: '<p lang="en" dir="ltr">You can also use 'Open recent' within the actions list, and then filter the list of projects. <a href="https://t.co/k8G9iIQNP0">pic.twitter.com/k8G9iIQNP0</a></p>— Oliver Davies (@opdavies) <a href="https://twitter.com/opdavies/status/1034542753651281920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2018</a>',
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} %}
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There’s also a way to access this list once PhpStorm is open, by clicking 'Open
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Recent' within the File menu. The issue here though is that this list is not
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filterable.
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You can also access this list using the keyboard, though the 'Search everywhere'
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or 'Find action' panes, and these are filterable.
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Once the 'Open Recent' option is selected, you see the same project list as on
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the welcome screen, which is filtered in the same way by starting to type
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potential project names.
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## Adding a Keyboard Shortcut
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We can make this easier by adding a new keyboard shortcut. Within the Keymap
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preferences, you can search for 'Open Recent' and right-click it to add a new
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keyboard shortcut and define the key combination.
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This this shortcut added, you can now use it to instantly bring up your recent
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projects list, filter it and switch project.
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