David Krings wrote:
So, the conclusion so far is, unless I can come up with the 300$ for NuSphere there isn't any reason to change IDEs...at least not on Windows. Really disappointing and not because I want a pro IDE for free or on the cheap. If I'd have the bucks I'd buy NuSphere in a heartbeat, but you know, they don't pay much for a tech writer.Next try is to bug the dbg people.
Turns out the dbg people are NuSphere as it seems. Anyhow, after digging around on the NuSphere website I came across the sales page that lists quite different prices. They currently have a promo that ends tomorrow and anyone evaluating their apps gets a 10% coupon. I then looked deeper into the various things that differs in Standard vs. Pro version. I took the advice to heart that less is often more and went with the standard version that clocks in at 53$ after promo and coupon. That is a fair price for a quite nice environment. I worked with it this afternoon and really like it, especially the debugger that works "VisualStudioish". One nice thing is also that if the script generates a PHP error it instantly stops the script at the offending line and turns into debug mode. That's sweet! The only beef I had so far with it is the quite crippled PHP version that comes with it. I replaced it with the one from the Luckasoft IDE and only had to change the dbg dll entry to match the file name and version. I save you all the ooohs and aaahs and write it up nicely with a comparison between the IDEs I tried and tested with my opinion.
Thanks for all your pointers and hints. Although I didn't go with anything that got proposed, I tried most of it and it helped me a great deal to separate the lights from the darks and go with something that really suits my needs and wallet.
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