Jonathan Duncan wrote:
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Ken,
I have been using Eclipse for a year or so now and I have messed
around with Zend briefly. Can you tell us more about why you like
PhpED over Eclipse and Zend?
Thanks,
Jonathan
These were the deciding factors for me:
1. Debugging
- Zend was quite tricky to set up and didn't work on some setups
- Eclipse has no debugging
- PhpED has integrated debugging that works out of the box
2. SVN
- Zend has no SVN support
- Eclipses SVN engine (tortoise based) is buggy and locks the workspace
while commits are in progress
- PhpED has a "shell menu" link that allows you to run tortoise svn
quickly from the PhpED file tree
3. Code Highlighting
- PhpED supports more token types than Eclipse or Zend
- PhpED has Smarty template highlighting
- PhpED runs separate highlighting for mixed code (i.e. separate
highlighting for js, html, and smarty when all in the same file)
4. Code Completion
- Zend's is quite good, PhpED is just as good
- Eclipse takes a long time to "build" and update built projects to
provide completion
- PhpED has right click or F12 "go to definition"
5. Speed
- Zend and Eclipse are written in Java and tend to be slower and more
prone to crashing
- PhpED is written in C and is slightly faster
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