I used Netbeans for the prior 3 years, and really loved it. It was free,
snappier than eclipse, and had tons of functionality.  One downside with it
was it would lag pretty bad sometimes, randomly. When you would try and use
the autocomplete, it would take up to a minute (this was a big project),
and then it would go back to working normally, and autocomplete for the
next 15 min or so would be snappy.

About six months ago, while it was having one of these brain farts, I
decided to look into other editors. I did the 30 day trial for PHPStorm,
and was completely sold after a couple of days using it. You can map the
hotkey keymaps to different editors keymaps. I used the eclipse keymap that
I'm most familar with, and was able to get up and running with it very
quickly. It does cost money, but it's performance and extra functionality
make it worth it to me. Those 1 minute lag times in Netbeans really were
disruptive to my workday. I also think Netbeans comes with better themes
than Netbeans. I personally like the dark themes, black on white, but of
course I know everybody is different.

-Sean Thayne


On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Joseph Scott <[email protected]>
wrote:

> It has been awhile since I used PhpStorm, but my memory is that the
> licenses are only good for one year.  You'll need to renew the license
> yearly if you want to upgrade after your first year.
>
> Something you should budget for if you go that route.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Matt Gauthier <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > However if you're worried about cost,
> > Netbeans is free of course where as PhpStorm is about 99 bucks or so.
>
>
>
>
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