> I don't think Eclipse is great for PHP. I tried several plugins for PHP and > they all gave me just more reason not to consider Eclipse as a PHP IDE. I > don't mean that you can't use it for PHP, but getting decent IntelliSense, > help, and the debugger to work wasn't easy. Or is there a plugin that does > all that? > I found NuSpehere's PHPEd to be the best, followed closely by EnginSite's > and Waterproof's editors. The major difference is that PHPEd has a way > better debugger implementation and as far as I can tell Luckasoft stopped > working on the EnginSite PHP Editor. Waterproof is releasing a beta for > their new version and that might just be worth looking at it again. > Just to note, those are all Windows based IDEs, except for PHPEd, which > also comes in a Linux version, but since that requires buying the same > license again I did not bother. Which brings me to the disadvantges of > NuSphere. They ruin the fun with theit great product by not allowing a > license to be valid for dot releases. I bought one for 5.0 and three weeks > later they released 5.1. I was quite miffed to find that the 5.0 license > won't work for 5.1 and the changes weren't that spectacular that paying the > upgrade price was worth it. I can see that a 5.x license won't work for a > 6.x release given that 6.x adds substantially more features (and no, fixing > bugs and design flaws aren't considered new features). I complained about > it, but also in this case corporate greed won over customer satisfaction. > Still, 5.0 does what I need and I did get it at a bargain price, so I am not > that interested in discussing that any further with NuSphere. It's just that > I probably switch once I outgrow what I got or it no longer works right. > > Coming back to the previous topic, everyone has their preference for > editors/IDEs and often it is just that, a preference, not a quality > judgement. That is why I even prefer a nicely designed GUI on a server over > the command line. Not that there is anything bad with using a command line, > but for example installing a dozen packages via CLI vs. Synaptics makes me > appreciate the GUI quite a bit. Just a preference, but one shared with many > others.
Eclipse + PDT + (Turn code folding off, there's a bug in the latest release) + Integrated SVN + xdebug = Win Let's go over the pros: - Cross platform: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, all exactly the same - All of the plugins available for Eclipse will work with PDT installed, there are hundreds of actively supported plugins for Eclipse - Free - Lot's of shops (as far as I can tell) use it Besides Eclipse, I occasionally use TextMate and vim, both of which (TextMate is light weight, vim, well, sometimes you've got to go in and make some quick changes) have their specific benefits. - jake _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
