My comparison is not exactly apples for apples in that I have Zend Studio ver 5.5 Standard which is a little dated now. Also the features of netbeans probably more match Zend Studio Professional. (Remote Debug, FTP etc). If I was starting out now and did not already have Zend, it would be a different choice because netbeans is fully featured and free whereas the Professional version of Zend is not cheap.
However, for me the personal choice to stay with Zend was: While the user interface for netbeans is very good, I found I could use Zend out the box with hardly a glance at the manual I prefer the way Zend allows me to load files from directories all over the place and bring them together into one project whereas netbeans requires a more formal process using project groups to do that. Even with the Standard version of Zend Studio's limited code profiling tools, the Analyze Code feature is very nice at picking up common mistakes (for me anyway) such as miss-spelling variables etc I struck one annoying "feature" in that if I put 2 breakpoints my file or files and run debug, it stops at the first breakpoint as expected. But if I press F5 to continue it does not stop at the next breakpoint but executes to the end. Maybe it is a bug or maybe it is something I don't understand. The documentation did not make it clear. The only other IDE I tried once was the much lauded PHPEd. I found it to be a "gray fog" both to look at and to use. netbeans is miles ahead of it and is great value. On Dec 18, 8:17 am, "Sid Bachtiar" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > Blue Horn Ltd - System Developmenthttp://bluehorn.co.nz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
