Care to elaborate? I've used Zend Studio and Zend Neon and I don't
miss anything now that I'm using Eclipse PDT. May be I forgot on a
nice feature not exist in free Eclipse.

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Tony Rigden
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Just finished playing with it. (note the hour). It is very nice. The
> price is right. But I still think Zend is better for the moment
> Tony
>
> On Dec 17, 4:21 pm, "Sid Bachtiar" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> What I hate about Aptana is that they try to spam you with advertising
>> messages on Eclipse.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Cam Spiers <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Aptana + it's PHP addon is worth a look.
>>
>> > It's based on Eclispe but offers FTP, code templates, SVN addons (subclipse
>> > + others), Database Explorer, Code Completion, Jump to Source, Debugging
>> > using xdebug or zend debugger.
>>
>> > Netbeans is quite cool too and I find the interface really simple to use.
>>
>> > Cheers.
>>
>> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Grant Paton-Simpson <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >> Thanks for that Sid.  Anyone used Eclipse PDT for local debugging (if,
>> >> indeed, it has that functionality)?  Any other feedback on Netbeans
>> >> would be good too.
>>
>> >> Sid Bachtiar wrote:
>> >> > Netbean is nice, I have used it for developing Java App, very visual
>> >> > RAD, but I don't know how good it is for PHP development.
>>
>> >> > Zend Neon is very nice, but you get most of the features from free
>> >> > Eclipse PDT.
>>
>> >> > For me Eclipse PDT is enough. It has the following features and more:
>> >> > - Code completion
>> >> > - Subclipse (SVN)
>> >> > - Syntax colouring
>> >> > - Jump to source
>>
>> >> > I haven't used Eclipse PDT for debugging though, but I think you can
>> >> > integrate php dbg. I find Symfony debug mode and Firebug more than
>> >> > enough.
>>
>> >> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Grant Paton-Simpson <[email protected]>
>> >> > wrote:
>>
>> >> >> Hi,
>>
>> >> >> I just read a very interesting piece on using Netbeans for PHP editing,
>> >> >> debugging etc:
>>
>> >> >>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/12/16/php-support-in-netbeans-65/
>>
>> >> >> Netbeans sounds promising and quite a bit has improved since earlier
>> >> >> versions. Has anyone tried it (recently or at all)?  I have used Zend
>> >> >> Studio for Windows previously but I am considering the new version
>> >> >> (Neon) for Eclipse running on my Ubuntu development machine.  Zend is
>> >> >> feeling a bit pricey for me though given that most of my development
>> >> >> software is open source and free.
>>
>> >> >> I like code completion, and I really need decent local debugging.  Plus
>> >> >> being able to jump to the source of a function etc.  To be honest,
>> >> >> there
>> >> >> are a lot of features I don't use and don't care about.  I don't mind
>> >> >> paying a certain amount (I pay for the pydev extension for Eclipse, for
>> >> >> example) but I don't like paying large amounts for functionality I
>> >> >> don't
>> >> >> care about.
>>
>> >> >> All the best, Grant
>>
>> --
>> Blue Horn Ltd - System Developmenthttp://bluehorn.co.nz
> >
>



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