PHP Storm color question
I've been using the default theme with a white background.
I'd like to try out a few of the nicer dark colored themes out there, but every time I do,
I get stuff like you see below.
This is in a block of PHP code..
I cannot figure out which item to change in Preferences,
I've tried everything under PHP and none of my items have a white background.
Where can I find out more about how this system works and how to customize it? 
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Hi Jack,
Those code fragments on screenshot are actually "Injected language" -- SQL. Therefore you have to look for these colors in SQL section of Colors & Fonts. You can also look at "Settings | Editor | Colors & Fonts | General | Injected language fragment" (so you can modify default background color for all injected languages/fragments).
Also, don't know if you are aware of this: The "Colors & Fonts | PHP | PHP code" will only apply colors for PHP code block (between <?php and ?> tags). If you want to chose default background for all file types/languages you may look in "Colors & Fonts | General | Default text" (and then you can remove PHP code specific background if you wish so).
Thanks Andriy -
Do you have a dark based theme that you like?
I suspect it'd be easier to start with someone elses...
- Jack
Hi Jack,
No, I do not use any dark themes because it will not theme whole IDE -- some parts will be themed (dark) and some will remain standard colors (you simply cannot make it completely dark like MS Expression Web/Studio product, for example). And to have half IDE dark and half bright -- that's ugly and inconvenient at least.
Because you are after theming I guess you’ve already seen this link: http://devnet.jetbrains.net/docs/DOC-1154. Themes listed there will not cover PHP, but you can copy styles over manually if required.
P.S.
My experience is based on PhpStorm v1 -- have not tried to theme my EAP build yet -- maybe it's much better now, don't really know.
Yes I have seen that link and tried those styles without good results.
It is tempting to try rubymine, I hear ruby is a great language to work with.
It's gotta be better than PHP!
I know this is quite old, but there's a dark theme based on Sublime that I really like: https://github.com/OtaK/jetbrains-monokai-sublime