PHP IDE or PHP editor

[Bernard Koninckx]

Hello everybody,

I'm a newbie and I search a good editor or IDE for programming in PHP.
If you have used some of these, could you make a comparison between those
tools.

TIA

Bernard

[somaBoy MX]

Re: PHP IDE or PHP editor

"Bernard Koninckx" <koninckxbernar d@excite.com> wrote...
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> Hello everybody,[/color]

Hi, Dr. Nick!
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> I'm a newbie and I search a good editor or IDE for programming in PHP.
> If you have used some of these, could you make a comparison between those
> tools.[/color]

Which platform?

The best one without a doubt is Zend Studio, but it's quite pricey. It has
increadible debugging and code analysis features. PHPEdit is free, but not
as stable and feature-packed as Zend.

Personally, I prefer Dreamweaver because I also use it to design my pages.
It has PHP code coloring, code hints, an integrated reference and a lot of
automation for quick-and-dirty PHP work so it allows me to do all of my work
(design/develop) in one IDE. Downside is that it isn't available for Linux,
and the Mac version is such a processor hog that it renders the program
completely unusable. Windows version is great though.


..soma

[Bernard Koninckx]

Re: PHP IDE or PHP editor

My platform is Windows 98

Bernard

"somaBoy MX" <none@nonesuch. net> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> "Bernard Koninckx" <koninckxbernar d@excite.com> wrote...
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> > Hello everybody,[/color]
>
> Hi, Dr. Nick!
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> > I'm a newbie and I search a good editor or IDE for programming in PHP.
> > If you have used some of these, could you make a comparison between[/color][/color]
those[color=blue][color=green]
> > tools.[/color]
>
> Which platform?
>
> The best one without a doubt is Zend Studio, but it's quite pricey. It has
> increadible debugging and code analysis features. PHPEdit is free, but not
> as stable and feature-packed as Zend.
>
> Personally, I prefer Dreamweaver because I also use it to design my pages.
> It has PHP code coloring, code hints, an integrated reference and a lot of
> automation for quick-and-dirty PHP work so it allows me to do all of my[/color]
work[color=blue]
> (design/develop) in one IDE. Downside is that it isn't available for[/color]
Linux,[color=blue]
> and the Mac version is such a processor hog that it renders the program
> completely unusable. Windows version is great though.
>
>
> .soma
>
>[/color]

[Tony Marston]

Re: PHP IDE or PHP editor

My platform is Windows XP. I use PHPEdit from www.phpedit.net. The current
version is quite stable. It has all the features I need plus an interactive
debugger. An editor without a debugger is like a car without wheels.

--
Tony Marston

http://www.tonymarston.net

"Bernard Koninckx" <koninckxbernar d@excite.com> wrote in message
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> My platform is Windows 98
>
> Bernard
>
> "somaBoy MX" <none@nonesuch. net> a écrit dans le message de news:
> 406301b9$0$2072 $ba620e4c@news. skynet.be...[color=green]
> > "Bernard Koninckx" <koninckxbernar d@excite.com> wrote...
> >[color=darkred]
> > > Hello everybody,[/color]
> >
> > Hi, Dr. Nick!
> >[color=darkred]
> > > I'm a newbie and I search a good editor or IDE for programming in PHP.
> > > If you have used some of these, could you make a comparison between[/color][/color]
> those[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > tools.[/color]
> >
> > Which platform?
> >
> > The best one without a doubt is Zend Studio, but it's quite pricey. It[/color][/color]
has[color=blue][color=green]
> > increadible debugging and code analysis features. PHPEdit is free, but[/color][/color]
not[color=blue][color=green]
> > as stable and feature-packed as Zend.
> >
> > Personally, I prefer Dreamweaver because I also use it to design my[/color][/color]
pages.[color=blue][color=green]
> > It has PHP code coloring, code hints, an integrated reference and a lot[/color][/color]
of[color=blue][color=green]
> > automation for quick-and-dirty PHP work so it allows me to do all of my[/color]
> work[color=green]
> > (design/develop) in one IDE. Downside is that it isn't available for[/color]
> Linux,[color=green]
> > and the Mac version is such a processor hog that it renders the program
> > completely unusable. Windows version is great though.
> >
> >
> > .soma
> >
> >[/color]
>
>[/color]

[Anthony L. Plunkett]

Re: PHP IDE or PHP editor

Bernard Koninckx wrote:
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> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm a newbie and I search a good editor or IDE for programming in PHP.
> If you have used some of these, could you make a comparison between those
> tools.
>
> TIA
>
> Bernard
>
>[/color]
Editplus is my favourite. It's a general IDE, it has PHP highlighting,
it can autocomplete if you wish (although, personally I find
autocompletions quite annoying). FTP upload server built in for quick
live-site changes (ctrl+alt+s, click == file uploaded). Has HTML
component icons etc.

Also PHP.net have a extended CHM documentation release. The CHM
integrates (loosely) with editplus (as well as a number of other IDE's),
so ctrl+1 can bring up the full documentation with user contributed
comments.

If your starting off installing something like EasyPHP (apache/mysql/php
all in one automated install) and using editplus to build test projects
in the www root is a real nice way to get instant feedback (ctrl+b
brings up a browser looking at the processed site) Everythings local, so
it's ideal for laptop or string and cup connections...

HTH

--
Anthony Plunkett
"If we can't play God, who will?"

[Xaradas]

Re: PHP IDE or PHP editor

Try Komodo


"Bernard Koninckx" <koninckxbernar d@excite.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm a newbie and I search a good editor or IDE for programming in PHP.
> If you have used some of these, could you make a comparison between those
> tools.
>
> TIA
>
> Bernard
>
>[/color]

[Thierry B.]

Re: PHP IDE or PHP editor

There are not many IDE (I mean RAD) for PHP. The one I tried id CodeCharge1,
but it was a pain because you can't edit generated code inside IDE, this
means if you edit generated code with another editor, next generation will
erase your changes. New version (code charge studio) has not this drawback,
but I did not tried it yet.

On Windows, PHPEdit is the best 'free' editor I tried. I tried also Maguma
Studio and PHPEd. PHPEd has no free version, but it is the one the debugger
works best. With Maguma and PHPedit, it is a pain to do multipage debugging.
It works more or less, after reading each IDE forum, whereas with PHPEd it
works as soon you installed it. Also PHPed has its internal web server, so
debugging occurs inside the IDE, whereas with other two you have to swith
from IDE to browser.

Although three IDE shares the same debugger, it not equally implemented.
Maguma studio is the worst. Its debugger is useless, because it displays
only simple level variables. For arrays, it displays only 'Array', great
:-( . In a later version, they claimed this was fixed, but they simply
displayed on one line the whole content of the array, unreadable, and need
10 feets wide screen to read complex arrays, whereas other two displays each
key/value one one line in a nice cascading view.

PHPedit (0.8) is a little better, because nested arrays are displayed with
their value on each line, except some bugs I found. Sometimes some variables
are not displayed, whereas a 'mouse over' the variable display its value,
and sometimes variables are listed more than one time.
PHPed debugger is perfect for debugging, but is not free without any free
version.

I did not tried Komodo.

Thierry B.

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"Bernard Koninckx" <koninckxbernar d@excite.com> a écrit dans le message de
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> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm a newbie and I search a good editor or IDE for programming in PHP.
> If you have used some of these, could you make a comparison between those
> tools.
>
> TIA
>
> Bernard
>
>[/color]

[Hayden Kirk]

Re: PHP IDE or PHP editor

You guys kidding?

PHPed is alot better than zend studio... I bought this at educational
pricing, nothing beats it. There is a demo on there site, www.phped.com

"Bernard Koninckx" <koninckxbernar d@excite.com> wrote in message
news:4062feff$0 $2014$ba620e4c@ news.skynet.be. ..[color=blue]
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm a newbie and I search a good editor or IDE for programming in PHP.
> If you have used some of these, could you make a comparison between those
> tools.
>
> TIA
>
> Bernard
>
>[/color]

[Benny Hill]

Re: PHP IDE or PHP editor

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:50:18 +0100, Bernard Koninckx wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm a newbie and I search a good editor or IDE for programming in PHP.
> If you have used some of these, could you make a comparison between those
> tools.
>
> TIA
>
> Bernard[/color]

Hello Bernard,

If you program other languages besides PHP I recommend Visual SlickEdit:

http://www.slickedit.com/

They offer a 30-day trial I believe and they have versions for many
different platforms (Windows, Linux, etc.).

--
Benny

[PeterR]

Re: PHP IDE or PHP editor

The editor I use for my php scripts is textpad, www.textpad.com

Peter, UK.


"Bernard Koninckx" <koninckxbernar d@excite.com> wrote in message
news:4062feff$0 $2014$ba620e4c@ news.skynet.be. ..[color=blue]
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm a newbie and I search a good editor or IDE for programming in PHP.
> If you have used some of these, could you make a comparison between those
> tools.
>
> TIA
>
> Bernard
>
>[/color]

[Terence]

Re: PHP IDE or PHP editor

Bernard Koninckx wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm a newbie and I search a good editor or IDE for programming in PHP.
> If you have used some of these, could you make a comparison between those
> tools.
>
> TIA
>
> Bernard
>
>[/color]

Probably not the best PHP editor in the world, php-ecplise is a plugin
for the Eclipse development platform. The reason why I use it is because
Ecplise has a great many other features and plugins (like XML editors)
with many more being developed all the time. In particular, it's CVS
support is the most user-friendly.

Eclipse is also very cross platform (being written in Java and all).
Exclipse is also one of the best Java IDEs out there, and as long as my
work includes Java, PHP, XML, XSLT, CVS, FTP -- Eclipse can handle them
all in the one space.

http://phpeclipse.sf.net

[michaeln]

Re: PHP IDE or PHP editor

Bernard Koninckx wrote:
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> My platform is Windows 98
>
> Bernard[/color]

(1) Delete windows and install linux
(2) Kate

;)

Ok, seriously when I was on windows I liked phpedit if you don't want to
spend a bundle on Dreamweaver. Although I am not sure how either will run
on Win98.

I did notice on phpedit's website that you will have to get some DLLs from
microsoft, they give you a link, before the program will work.

-Michael

[Tony Marston]

Re: PHP IDE or PHP editor


"michaeln" <no@spam.please > wrote in message
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> Bernard Koninckx wrote:
>[color=green]
> > My platform is Windows 98
> >
> > Bernard[/color]
>
> (1) Delete windows and install linux
> (2) Kate
>
> ;)
>
> Ok, seriously when I was on windows I liked phpedit if you don't want to
> spend a bundle on Dreamweaver. Although I am not sure how either will run
> on Win98.
>
> I did notice on phpedit's website that you will have to get some DLLs from
> microsoft, they give you a link, before the program will work.
>
> -Michael[/color]

I use PHPEdit on Windows XP and this does not need any extra dll files.

--
Tony Marston

http://www.tonymarston.net

[Jeffrey Silverman]

Re: PHP IDE or PHP editor

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 01:16:47 -0500, michaeln wrote:
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> (2) Kate[/color]

Quanta

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[michaeln]

Re: PHP IDE or PHP editor

Tony Marston wrote:
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> "michaeln" <no@spam.please > wrote in message
> news:c40hsf$5vj 3$4@news3.infoa ve.net...[color=green]
>> Bernard Koninckx wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>> > My platform is Windows 98
>> >
>> > Bernard[/color]
>>
>> (1) Delete windows and install linux
>> (2) Kate
>>
>> ;)
>>
>> Ok, seriously when I was on windows I liked phpedit if you don't want to
>> spend a bundle on Dreamweaver. Although I am not sure how either will
>> run on Win98.
>>
>> I did notice on phpedit's website that you will have to get some DLLs
>> from microsoft, they give you a link, before the program will work.
>>
>> -Michael[/color]
>
> I use PHPEdit on Windows XP and this does not need any extra dll files.
>[/color]

On windows98 not XP it needs the additional files.