Have you tried aptana? It was built for ror, but they took over pydev and have a php plugin as well. I just started using it and its pretty decent (not sure about the code folding).
On 2/26/10, Gary Mort <garyam...@gmail.com> wrote: > Too many little consoles.. :-) > > Which is the main item which has put me off. > > Written in Java and needing to know Java to do a lot of extending of > Eclipse[though with PDT going to a markup language for rules, I might be > able to do quite a bit there] > > Oddities with network connections: I went through half a dozen install > processes, and each one broke irrepairably at some point. > > Too many versions: which one to use? > > PHP code folding inadequacies: just doesn't fold everything the other IDE's > I've used can. > > Source Class browsing failures: I've yet to see a function like Ultraedit > where an entire project of files is kept up to date for the class/function > browsers. OTOH you can emulate all this functionality if you document your > code as it will pick up documentation in standard formats. So here the > "downside" is a matter of getting really good at commenting code that should > be commented anyway! > > My setup: > > I ended up with the all in one PDT installer. Then I added in the Bzr > plugins for source code repositories. Then I REMOVED Mylin and installed > the latest version of Mylin.... > Then I installed the Mylin/Eclipse Redmine plugin[and installed the server > side 2.6 plugin on my server]. Finally, the one item that caused weird > problems when I installed originally, I loaded the RSE plugins[Remote Server > Environment]. Note: the local one caused me to be unable to open local PHP > files, so the 3rd time around I specifically excluded that one. > > I added my Redmine server to the task servers[small nit here: under the > current setup, I cannot get a list of /all/ issues. I have to add project > by project, and sub project by sub project. Gotta find out why and fix > that] > > Now, outside the "project" concept as I was debugging code that was offsite, > then for the Remote Servers I added my FTP and SFTP servers and was able to > browse those repositories online and open the files directly. [Note: small > nit here, a LOT of the tools I wanted are kind of hidden. I had to keep > going to Window->ShowView->Other to get a long list of windows to find a lot > of these things. > > > Ok, so with all this setup, I had 3 features to change. So I opened the > first task in my project in eclipse, checked the spec, hit activate, and > then hunted around for the files on the server. Finally found the oddball > layout and located the 2 PHP files that needed minor changes to. Updated > and tested them. Then when I was done, I went back to the task and used the > feature I am now in love with: there will be a tab to "Add Context"..... > click on that and you have a list of all open files[or is it files you have > opened?].. Clicked save and I believe it generates an XML file of all the > file paths/files and zips them up, then it gets attached to the issue. Next > I close the issue. > > So NEXT time I have to make a small change, I can go back to this issue and > open the context from Eclipse and it will automatically open the files from > the FTP server for me. > > Second feature, again changed 2 files. This time I had to dig through a > dozen files to find the area to change and had left them open. As an > experiment, I went to add context and sure enough, lots of stuff I did not > change was there. But I could right click and remove items from the context > that were not relevant, and then save them. > > Soo... that one feature has me sold. It was quick and easy and I will live > with all the other little annoyances for now to be able to easily record > which files were changed directly into my project management tool AND be > able to open them later[it's easy to add changed files by adding an issue > keyword to the files and checking into version control - Bazaar can check > files for keywords in the commits and files and update the issue id number > as needed - but that is one way communication, wheras this two way > communication is great!] > -- Sent from my mobile device Brian O'Connor _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
