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Re: PHP IDE Recommendations

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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn, 2011-12-10 20:02:

> Jeff Gaines wrote:
> 
>> I have been using NuSphere's PHPEdit and JetBrains' PHPStorm for php
>> development (hobby only, not commercial). I have also tried NetBeans
>> although that seems more oriented to Java.

Netbeans *is* a Java IDE. But the PHP Plugin makes it quite useful for
PHP development too.

>> I use Windows 7 and wonder if people here can recommend any other IDE's to
>> try before I reach for my credit card. At the moment I prefer PHPStorm
>> because I have been able to get it working with my WAMP setup and it does
>> Java as well. I do want something that lets me step through code as I am
>> new to php.
> 
> Eclipse PHP Development Tools.  By contrast to Aptana Studio, which is based 

Or Netbeans with the PHP Plugin ;-)

> on Eclipse, that PHP editor actually does something useful beyond syntax-
> highlighting.  For example, it auto-completes `array' with a list of array 
> functions to select from, and its Outline view shows variable declarations, 
> not just includes.  And you can set *PHP* breakpoints.

The same is true for the Netbeans Editor. I think the IDEs generally
provide the same functionality. Even Android development can be done
with Netbeans as well as with Eclipse. So it's mostly a personal
preference, which IDE you prefer.

> Eclipse was originally only a Java IDE, of course, so you can expect the 
> best support for developing with Java from its JDT plugin as well.
[...]

The same applies to Netbeans.

Debugging with Netbeans needs xdebug installed on the server side as a
PHP extension, but this should not a be a big problem (and a debug
extension is needed for Eclipse too).


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Arno Welzel
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PHP IDE Recommendations "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-10 12:53 +0000
  Re: PHP IDE Recommendations Derek Turner <frderek@cesmail.net> - 2011-12-10 14:53 +0000
  Re: PHP IDE Recommendations Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-12-10 20:02 +0100
    Re: PHP IDE Recommendations Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2011-12-11 16:52 +0100
  Re: PHP IDE Recommendations zzatkin@gmail.com - 2011-12-11 00:02 -0800
  Re: PHP IDE Recommendations Hans Olo <doctor@vaderlishious.com> - 2011-12-11 10:23 -0600
  Re: PHP IDE Recommendations "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> - 2011-12-12 11:52 +0100
    Re: PHP IDE Recommendations Ross McKay <au.org.zeta.at.rosko@invalid.invalid> - 2011-12-13 11:43 +1100
  Re: PHP IDE Recommendations Goran <goran@nospam.com> - 2011-12-16 08:32 +0100

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