Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arno Welzel Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: Re: PHP IDE Recommendations Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:52:35 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 46 Message-ID: <4EE4D1C3.4070304@arnowelzel.de> References: <2254849.FRqVoOGUtd@PointedEars.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="iggmm73mzhMxthnRaBhnEg"; logging-data="19877"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18W0kZknVppmxMNE+dBPSt6MN8QjbLQ38Q=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: <2254849.FRqVoOGUtd@PointedEars.de> Cancel-Lock: sha1:14h52XOJk3r8oWHhu/3p9wOk5nY= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.php:4052 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). -- Arno Welzel http://arnowelzel.de http://de-rec-fahrrad.de