Good IDE for PHP? (new news) 1

[GKChesterton]

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1421333

I'd like to restart this thread to learn about any developments. Today jpadie entered the minotaur's maze of osCommerce and was able to answer my question in nano-hours. I thought, what is he or she using for an editor?!

Currently I use phpDesigner 2008. The trial demo was so convincing that I spent money on it, and I am glad I did even though I am a total bottom-feeder when acquiring tools. (The truth is that if I'd had the patience to step through the code using phpDesigner 2008 I would have found my answer.)

However, I am looking for a way to develop on Linux LAMP. The Linux need is great enough that I would spend money again ... but maybe I can even avoid that?

[purple]If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called
research [blue]database development[/blue], would it? [tab]-- Albert Einstein[/purple]​

 

[jpadie]

i'm not convinced that DW is keeping up with the times, and therefore justifying its (ridiculous) price tag.

I'd be interested in hearing from anyone that uses features of DW that place it at a premium over any of the gratis offerings? As for the pre-built code samples: we've spent a chunk of time in this forum fixing them for users ....

 

[spamjim]

I entirely agree. But I had a license that was sitting around. Maybe other Linux converts might as well. (I rarely use DW on Mac and Windows either)

As someone that does both design and programming, it is nice to have a tool that can handle both (even if not ideally in either regard). I'd love to learn of any GPL graphical web editors to totally replace any need for DW.

 

[spamjim]

(partly answering my last post

http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/

http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/

http://www.screem.org/

http://cssed.sourceforge.net/

These seem to offer PHP aids and also general HTML authoring tools.

 

[vacunita]

i'm not convinced that DW is keeping up with the times, and therefore justifying its (ridiculous) price tag.

When I started coding PHP seriously in college, i used the early versions of Dw to do it. they where pretty good then. As time went by, DW started to bloat anything you did with it. Even through its function auto-complete feature is nice, the Price is just to excessive to justify.

There are too many downsides in my opinion to actually want to pay for it. I keep an old MX2004 version around only for its CSS editor. Makes it easy to build CSS sheets quickly and painlessly. but once built, any further modifications I do by hand from a standard text editor.

I'd be interested in hearing from anyone that uses features of DW that place it at a premium over any of the gratis offerings? As for the pre-built code samples: we've spent a chunk of time in this forum fixing them for users ....

Isn't that the truth. DW doesn't seem to update its code snippets to adjust to the newer versions of PHP and account for deprecated functions and variables. Which renders the code it ... renders(forgive the redundancy) pretty useless.




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[a6m1n0]

That's the catch to using DW -- you have to upgrade it with each new version to take advantage of major updates.

My company is convinced it's the greatest thing since ice cream sundaes, and since they don't mind footing the bill for CS4 I can tell you first-hand Adobe has really improved it.

There is now auto completion for JS, and also has SVN client built in which I have been dying to see happen for years now.

I use code snippets, but as a place to archive my own. I don't think I've ever used the stock ones that come with DW. It's good when you work with several languages to have one organized place to look for code.

I also have Zend Studio 5, PHP PDT, and Notepad.

Just my two cents. DW is a good tool if you can afford it and work with several languages for several web sites.

-a6m1n0

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