Kdevelop - Am I the only one using this? Good PHP IDEs?

[sen5241b]

The nice thing about Kdevelop is that it is free. It has a great syntax checker ?

what do you use if anything? Is it worth the money?

 

[feherke]

Hi

I only tried KDevelop years ago for C++ but did not really convinced me.

For PHP I use PhpStorm, which is commercial IDE written in Java. Its quality almost [sup](*)[/sup] justifies its price. Is as Java with GUI usually is : sometimes spins up the processor to maximum, sometimes does its job slower for a minute, but then recovers itself and works fine. There is a good amount of plugins, but if you want to extend it with personalized things, there is no easy way : plugins have to be written in Java [sup](**)[/sup], macros are limited.

[small](*) That "almost" is not necessarily PhpStorm's issue, but our project imposes some limitations for which I can not fully enjoy PhpStorm's features.[/small]
[small](**) PMiP which allows scripting it with Ruby is old and poorly documented.[/small]

Earlier I tried Eclipse and NetBeans, both of them I used for Java before. But for PHP I found them too weak.

Usually on questions like this someone will ask why do you want an IDE as most of the time a good editor is enough. Then they suggest Komodo Edit. I partially agree : I regularly use an editor beside the IDE, but definitely not Komodo. Tried it, disappointed me.

Maybe you could take a look at faq434-4252 , but was last edited more than 7 years ago.


Feherke.
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[sen5241b]

The best thing about an IDE is the ability to step thru the code one line at a time while watching var values. A "good editor" can't do this and neither can Kdevelop. Can PHP Storm?? do this?

 

[feherke]

Hi

The best thing about an IDE is the ability to step thru the code one line at a time while watching var values. [gray](...)[/gray] Can PHP Storm?? do this?

There are signs that it could. But given the server runs on a virtual machine while PhpStorm runs on the physical machine, I was never tempted to waste enough time to set up debugging.


Feherke.
feherke.ga

 

[vacunita]

Personally I use Eclipse on Ubuntu at work, and Aptana on Windows at home.

For lighter coding I turn to Bluefish Editor. All 3 are free.

I've also built a small custom dump class, that prints out objects and variables in nice formatted tables. So If I'm working with complex objects or arrays I can view their structure graphically.







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[jpadie]

Like Phil I use Aptana.
You can use it as an IDE with xDebug but apart from a brief foray into that world I have abandoned step thru analysis for php. It is too clumsy.
I use textwrangler for quick coding when aptana is not open.