Php Ide? :)

Nor · 03-14-2008, 03:50 PM

Well I started with notepad :P back in the day 06? Then I said thats gay lol and got notepad++ for my syntax editor, but then it started sucking. Then I found about Rapid PHP 2007 yesterday and whoo the short cut key features and all the addons helps so much. What PHP IDE do you use? I was looking into ScreenCast: PHPEdit 2.12 Overview also, and man I'm think I'm going to be flip flop with RapidPHP and PHPEdit. PHPEdit has a lot of neat features that I could use.

abiko · 03-14-2008, 04:25 PM

Been using UltraEdit for years, but now switched to NuSphere PhpEd.

If you have a big project I reccomend usig an IDE, but for normal use - any editor is good. Note - editor :D

Nor · 03-14-2008, 04:47 PM

I was just checking out PHPEdit's Code Beautifier, its nice. The sql stuff makes things easy its nice.

Village Idiot · 03-14-2008, 05:16 PM

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notepad++ for my syntax editor, but its I don't sucking?

What? That doesnt make sense. I would revise the entire post.

Nor · 03-14-2008, 05:19 PM

My bad, updated.

Village Idiot · 03-14-2008, 05:23 PM

Much better.

What sucks about notepad++? Ive been using it for ages and its all I need. Ive never been much for fancy features though. PHPedits code beautifier is not a feature I like, I write clean code without help. Plus it doesnt go by my indentation style.

Nor · 03-14-2008, 05:28 PM

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What sucks about notepad++? Ive been using it for ages and its all I need. Ive never been much for fancy features though. PHPedits code beautifier is not a feature I like, I write clean code without help. Plus it doesnt go by my indentation style.

You can modify indentations. (Mines is set to 8 spaces per tab that I edited). Notepad++ isn't bad, but it isn't great. I like coding in a cleaner environment helps me manage code in a better manner where RapidPHP and PHPEdit comes into play. I never said I'd use "Code Beautifier", yet I did comment that it was nice. Notepad++ been there with me since day one ( since first version that was released) and the nice effects(text effects etc..) are good, but I wanted to try something new and these are some of the best in the market that I've came across.

xenon · 03-14-2008, 06:16 PM

When you do real work, you don't look at the IDE's design, but functionality. The look can be modified easily in almost all IDE's, but not the features

Gareth · 03-14-2008, 06:17 PM

PHP Designer 2007 all the way baby!

Orc · 03-14-2008, 06:52 PM

Currently using notepad++

TlcAndres · 03-14-2008, 07:22 PM

PHP Designer 2008 and at Xenon, if I'm gonna be looking at a screen for hours developing I want at least something nice to look at.

Orc · 03-14-2008, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by TlcAndres

PHP Designer 2008 and at Xenon, if I'm gonna be looking at a screen for hours developing I want at least something nice to look at.

Speciously, syntax. I hate Notepad, cause its bland, and I like colors. :P Not dull, black characters.

freenity · 03-14-2008, 07:38 PM

I'm mainly working on Linux (Fedora) now, so I'm using Kate (This is a default edit in KDE), it comes with syntax highlight and many nice features. I recently discovered the existence of KDevelop IDE for scripting language, so I'm starting to use this one :)

In Windows I used to use PHPDesigned.

Nor · 03-14-2008, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Orc

Speciously, syntax. I hate Notepad, cause its bland, and I like colors. :P Not dull, black characters.

Thats another reason :)

Aaron · 03-14-2008, 08:45 PM

Honestly, all you need is notepad++ for the fancy tab stuff and the automated closing braces, everything else is just a fun toy.

I bet most people don't use 1/10 of the IDE's full capabilities. I myself only benefit from Code Assist, Syntax coloring, tab sync, WYSIWYG previews, tabbed interface, and automatic refactoring. I mostly blow the money just because I like to have shiny toys.

TlcAndres · 03-14-2008, 09:10 PM

I benefit from everything you stated and the auto debug features and the built in FTP the project manager the built in document etc. I use my entire IDE's range of features if not I wouldn't have bought it.

stewart · 03-14-2008, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by freenity

I'm mainly working on Linux (Fedora) now, so I'm using Kate (This is a default edit in KDE), it comes with syntax highlight and many nice features. I recently discovered the existence of KDevelop IDE for scripting language, so I'm starting to use this one :)

In Windows I used to use PHPDesigned.

Whenever I ran the KDE environment, I always used the KDevelop is what I do believe it was. It was great actually. Looked good and worked very well.

Oh... and I've used EditPlus 2 for the LONGEST time, simple text editing, not very resource intensive, syntax highlighting, etc... nothing fancy or anything, just the way i like it.

But came the day I wanted a few more features, but not too many, so I ended up with Notepad++ after some searching around, I've been using it for a bit now, but it seems way too bloated for my liking, too resource intensive =(

And the worse thing about it, on the tabs open at the top, I HATE arrows, making them scroll, I'd just rather the tabs get smaller (like EditPlus2) but not many Editors do that..

So I use EditPlus2 / NotePad++ in combination... looking for something better still though :(

Orc · 03-15-2008, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Nor

Thats another reason :)

And because notepad++ supports line breaks xD

nullbyte · 03-15-2008, 04:23 PM

phpDesigner 2008.

jvv · 03-16-2008, 02:52 AM

I'd recommend nusphere phped. I like it for its editor with folding (the best one), debugger and ease of use. I've tried out all, including PDT, ZS, phpedit, phpdesigner, jcx, and a few others. Neither works as robust as phped!