Webstorm: How to add surround quote, parentheses,... when I highlight a some text

please try enabling 'Surround selection when typing quote or brace' in Preferences | Editor | General | Smart keys.

Thanks @elena for your quick response, your suggestion help me a lot.

I miss the point for surrounding.

[php]
$example = "Surround me $toSurround , please!";
[/php]

to

[php]
$example = "Surround me ".$toSurround." , please!";
[/php]

Select $toSurround and surround with quote works, the dot erase the selection and i must write manually, that is not cool.

haven't got what you mean. Is the second example a result of surrounding $toSurround with quotes? where do dots come from? Please clarify your steps

Yes the second example is a result of surrounding $toSurround with quotes. And the dots come from manually writing.

Surrounding with dots is what i needed. I have often this situation.

there is no "surround with dots" feature, sorry

Can you add it as feature request?

Please feel free to file a request to youtrack, https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/IDEA. But, IMO, it has a low chance to be implemented - surrounding with dots is not a typical code editing scenario

You could use some custom Live Template of surround kind here.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/tutorial-creating-live-templates.html

Feature Request: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-45075