Recently I saw very nice post in the famous site www.smashingmagazine.com about how to choose good IDE for PHP. There is a contest between four of the most used PHP development environments : Eclipse, which is my favorite, Zend Studio 6, Aptana PHP and Aptana Studio Pro.
Interesting link about JavaScript plugin for Eclipse can be found on http://spket.com/, and is my recommendation.
The author of the article gives you good reason why using an IDE, and that’s why you can have:
- Syntax highlighting.
- Code completion.
- Navigation into the code.
- Errors and warnings highlighting.
- Refactoring and code generation.
- Debugging.
- Versioning system.
- Client-side features.
Great thanks for the smashingmagazine.com about this very good article, and don’t waste time to read it and start using an IDE.
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My favorite is Eclipse PDT too. Like it so much, but hope to start work on Linux faster. Still having problems with 1 GB of RAM?! Isn’t it strange?
As I mentioned before Eclipse is very very good IDE, but that does not mean there are not other good ones. Zend Studio is such a good IDE, but unfortunately not free.
I’m using a simple text editor like Notepad++. That’s really good for every developer. IDEs are using so much RAM and most of the developers don’t need them.
That’s not the question. Because it’s using much RAM, does not mean we have to use VIM under Linux shell. IDEs help for so many things and the RAM is the smallest care in that case.
My favorite is the Zend Studio. I liked Eclipse PDT so much but Zend is better.
Dreamweaver is the best! I like Eclipse PDT, and it’s free but Adobe’s Dreamweaver is my number one.
greets
I use free PHP IDE Codelobster PHP Edition It is free PHP IDE that has almost all features that paid IDE have.
Is it better than Eclipse PDT?