Good IDE for PHP?

[hapax]

What are some good options for a PHP IDE?

Anything comparable to MS Visual Studio?
Anything good free ones?

 

[jpadie]

for true IDE's look at komodo and aptana. I believe that they are both cross platform. I use aptana currently but am using it mainly as a project manager and an editor rather than a true IDE so cannot comment too much on that side of things.

also zend which now has an eclipse based version in beta.

 

[thenewa2x]

I use ActiveState Komodo Edit but is not as feature rich as Komodo IDE.

[tt]
Edit -

http://www.activestate.com/Products/komodo_edit/

IDE -

http://www.activestate.com/Products/komodo_ide/

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[hapax]

The "no debugging" in Komodo Edit must be a bummer?

 

[laurin1]

Depends on how much money you want to spend. If you want free, I've used Eclipse with PHPEclipse for quite a while. I recently switched to Eclipse with PDT, and it's very nice. Now, I'm testing Zend Neon (Zend for Eclipse) and I have to say it's my favorite of the three. Zend Neon is 300.00 and still in Beta, but the other two are free.

http://www.zend.com/

http://phpeclipse.net

http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/

Keith Davis
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[thenewa2x]

@hapax: For debugging I have PHP installed and I just execute it. For me, this is just as good.

The part I like about IDE over Edit is the ability to see all of the properties, variables, globals, functions, classes, and methods in the script through a side bar. Very handy when you're script because very large.

 

[Kozusnik]

I've tried several, but they all seem to complicate my coding. I don't like Visual xxxx anyway. I always seem to come right back to KWrite. Just a simple text editor in Linux. I debug when I run the code.

Mark

 

[overmodulation]

I actually like Dreamweaver but I use it as an editor.

I mean there's WYSIWYG design view you can use but the backend PHP requires the editor. DW does have intellisense-like functionality for PHP code though.

 

[Stretchwickster]

I use Nusphere PhpED (

http://www.nusphere.com/)

- which is well worth checking out.

Clive

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