[ciapug] IDE

[Jerry Weida]

Eclipse is completely free. It has no price tag with it. And all of the 
plugins that I use are also free. I haven't seen a "for pay" plugin yet.

On 8/21/05, Carl Olsen <carl-olsen at mchsi.com> wrote: 
> 
> I like the way that the PHP plug in for Visual Studio shows the methods 
> and
> properties of a class in a drop down list while I'm tying in the page. It
> lets me know that the class is available and also helps me remember what
> properties and methods I created for each class. I'm often adding methods
> as I go along and I may have added one to another project and can't 
> remember
> if I added it to the one I'm working on. Methods can vary from one project
> to another. Syntax highlighting is certainly one of the most important
> features, but the ability to view class information from page to page is
> also a nice feature. I also like it when the PHP functions show up while
> I'm typing, along with HTML and CSS attributes and their possible values.
> Kate is certainly an improvement over a plain text editor (I actually use
> that one frequently when I'm working on my SUSE 9.3 machine), but I like
> more (I mostly use Windows XP for development). Maybe it's just because I
> still feel like I'm learning the languages. If I had all this stuff in my
> head, I might not need so much functionality.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ciapug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:ciapug-bounces at cialug.org] On 
> Behalf
> Of Dave J. Hala Jr.
> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 5:27 PM
> To: carl-olsen at mchsi.com; PHP List
> Subject: Re: [ciapug] IDE
> 
> I go through this about every 6 months. I keep thinking that if I use an
> IDE for PHP development, or some kind of combination PHP IDE/HTML editor
> that it will speed things up.
> 
> I've found that I'm faster just using something simple that has syntax
> highlighting. I use "Kate" on RHEL Workstation, for all my development.
> I also run Apache on the localhost. By switching from one virtual
> desktop to another, I can develop and test very rapidly. Typically, I
> run 8-10 desktops.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 13:08, Carl Olsen wrote:
> > I would like to hear comments about favorite PHP editing tools. I'm 
> using
> > VS.php (www.jcxsoftware.com <http://www.jcxsoftware.com>) which is a PHP 
> plug in for Microsoft Visual
> > Studio. It has fairly good object support, but I've never tried anything
> > else. The other PHP programmer in our office is using a trial version of
> > Zend Studio, but he says it doesn't have much support for other 
> languages,
> > particularly HTML and CSS (VS.php has limited support for HTML, code 
> hints
> > while you are typing inline). Are there any other good tools for object
> > oriented web site programming with PHP?
> >
> > Ideally, I'm looking for something that has good support for HTML and 
> CSS.
> >
> > Carl
> > http://www.carl-olsen.com/
> >
> >
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