I love when people say why they like a tool. Great info, great PHP IDEs. PHP is huge. But for a lot of my site work, it involves more than PHP. So, I'm a bit different.
I use Dreamweaver Creative Cloud. I don't use all the behaviors and widgets and hat generated code. I like to use my own code for that. Why Dreamweaver? This will sound like a commercial, but these are my real life reasons. 1) I spend a lot of web dev time in CSS. Dw does an incredible job with that. The Live mode allows me to edit a lot outside of the code view. You can now select elements from another site somewhere, right-click and copy all the styles. I can them past them into any CSS class I want. It's easy and it works. Huge time saver. 2) I love the built-in ftp client. 3) You get TypeKit for free, which has a ton of really great fonts, and the install is super easy, and only what you want. I know some people like Google Fonts. Similarly, some people like shopping at Dollar Tree. I'm not them, sorry. 4) Mobile-first! Building responsive code is easy in Dw. If you're not doing responsive, I have an old TV you might want to buy. 5) The integration with the Adobe graphics tools is great. Hey, i'm into graphics. Example, you've got a Photoshop file, and let's say there's a layer with a logo or button shape. By changing the name of the layer to be "logo, logo.jpg, logo.png, logo.svg", it will automatically export out all three files. I know this doesn't fit everyone, but it fits my workflow really well. It's more of a web tools answer than a PHP IDE answer, and I apologize for that. But seriously, I use Dreamweaver for my PHP IDE. -- Cole Joplin Quoting "[email protected]" <[email protected]>: > Another vote here for phpStorm, I'd echo all the previous comments > about it. As for licensing, I found this on their site in the FAQ's: > > 2. Can I continue using your product if I don't renew my upgrade > subscription? > Yes, you can, because our licenses are perpetual. If your annual > upgrade subscription runs out at any point, you will be able to > continue using any product version that was made available while > your subscription was still valid. > > Ask a question > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Jul 15, 2014, at 7:02 PM, Aaron Luman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> phpStorm is the only IDE that i've really used, and i love it. I can't >> believe it took me this long to get on board. I tried eclipse but found it >> extremely frustrating but almost everything about Storm was completely >> intuitive. >> >> I really like the version control integration and HUGE list of plugins. the >> default version control code highlighting makes it very easy to find bugs >> and track coworker changes. It also helps keep our commits clean (so that >> we aren't marking sections as modified when we didn't actually mean to >> change anything). Our designers use some other software and are constantly >> committing files with lots of non-changes, which makes it really hard to >> pinpoint changes and find bugs. >> >> We use mustache and the mustache plugin has been wonderful. >> >> It also has a really good mysql/postgresql/etc editor built in. If you set >> up your db credentials it will autocomplete/validate sql statements and you >> can inspect the table structure (and get index details) while editing your >> code. >> >> It is $99 per year for personal (self employed, etc) use. I don't think >> that you can keep using the software once your subscription expires. I >> would much rather pay for something that works the way that I want it to >> than find something 'free' that takes me several hours to set up. If storm >> can save me just 4 hours of work time over the course of the year than it >> has paid for itself... >> >> Just my thoughts >> >> (sorry, gmail likes to reply to the last message in the conversation >> instead of the thread... this was sent a few hours ago) >> >> >>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Aaron Luman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> phpStorm is the only IDE that i've really used, and i love it. I can't >>> believe it took me this long to get on board. I tried eclipse but found it >>> extremely frustrating but almost everything about Storm was completely >>> intuitive. >>> >>> I really like the version control integration and HUGE list of plugins. >>> the default version control code highlighting makes it very easy to find >>> bugs and track coworker changes. It also helps keep our commits clean (so >>> that we aren't marking sections as modified when we didn't actually mean to >>> change anything). Our designers use some other software and are constantly >>> committing files with lots of non-changes, which makes it really hard to >>> pinpoint changes and find bugs. >>> >>> We use mustache and the mustache plugin has been wonderful. >>> >>> It also has a really good mysql/postgresql/etc editor built in. If you set >>> up your db credentials it will autocomplete/validate sql statements and you >>> can inspect the table structure (and get index details) while editing your >>> code. >>> >>> It is $99 per year for personal (self employed, etc) use. I don't think >>> that you can keep using the software once your subscription expires. I >>> would much rather pay for something that works the way that I want it to >>> than find something 'free' that takes me several hours to set up. If storm >>> can save me just 4 hours of work time over the course of the year than it >>> has paid for itself... >>> >>> Just my thoughts >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:16 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Joseph Scott >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://josephscott.org/ >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> >>>> UPHPU mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu >>>> IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> UPHPU mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu >> IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net > _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
