I am pretty new to php, very new to OO php and wondered if anyone has an advice guidance on where to start. I've written a fair few websites but in pretty loose non-OO php. Can anyone advise what is the best way to develop and debug are there any good IDEs out there that come free for php. Previously I've worked without one at all and it is driving me nuts just running and rerunning and adding code to debug errors etc. Any other general advice on the basic set up that would help when starting out. At present I'm running php5 on Apache 2.2, mySql all on windows Xp on my laptop however i'm deploying the websites to a linux environment not that i go anywhere near the OS just bang it on the hosted webspace using CuteFTP. Any guidance much appreciated.

I think Komodo Edit is a good one. They say Eclipse is good too, but it's slow (it's made in Java...).

I just use a simple editor, Medit/Mooedit, it's pretty good. And Notepad++ is also a good editor.

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for dev and debug I can recommend PDT:

http://zend.com/pdt

Although sometimes for me when i used to use it, it bugged and the auto-complete died more often than not and it dies when you throw a large project at it.
However the step through debugger can be useful to a beginner so that you can see whats happening.

I personally use vim http://www.vim.org/

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Thanks guys. I'll check them all out and let you know my thoughts. Cheers.

PHPDesigner, it's amazing.

netbeans works well also. Has all the nice fancy intellisence stuff.

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you can try this link pal.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/li...ide/index.html

well, i personally use dreamweaver only. why? because it works well with me. :) good luck

Zend Studio is nice, it's not free but that shouldn't be too much of a problem right? ;)

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Raising this one again. Been working away on php but ecountering issues with not using an IDE. In any case i downloaded Eclipse and for the life of me i just cannot get this thing to meet my basic requirements like to think I have a brain between my head but i am getting very frustrated. I think I need something a lot simpler to start of with but something that can debug step by step as opposed to just an editor.

My main requirements are:

Editor which will flag syntax errors
Debugger which will allow me to either set breakpoints or run through code line by line

Any ideas for something that is pretty basic that will do this? Thanks in advance.

phpDesigner. Best IDE ever.

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I'll give it a try and give you my thoughts Enfernikus. May need some guidance from yourself if thats ok in how to use phpDesigner. Cheers.