What IDE do you use?

[neil]

I was thinking of getting an IDE (primarily for debugging, so not an editor). I read the discussion here on an IDE for Prado, which would be great, but until then I just wondered what you guys use?

I've been looking at Zend Studio, PHPed and phpEdit. I've briefly looked at phpEdit, but wasn't impressed by the documentation - the stuff on the debugger wasn't even written for local debugging, and it looks as though it's a plugin for eclipse - well there already is one of those (PHPeclipse I think), which may also be the way to go. Maguma also seems a possibility, I downloaded the lite version, but the dbg module does not support PHP 5.0! So, it's probably between Zend & PHPed, both considerable investments. I may well try them out, but it is quite a time investment too, so.... I thought I'd ask you guys what you think?

[zwetph]

Well I use Eclipse. It might not be the best for debugging etc. but I like using the same IDE for different things, like Java etc. The CVS plugin rocks

[jtp51]

The Engineering department that I work in purchase a copy of ZDE for me. It works really well.

I was surprised that it automatically sees the Class definitions and code hints:



You can also specifiy templates. So, if you type 'tlabel' and then type the 'Tab' key, it will automatically output a TLabel component.




I am working on how to debug in ZDE, namespaces are not recognized as valid include files. More on that later...

[fryk]

ZDE

Improved FTP/Secure FTP (SSH) - it is especially important to me and it works great and FAST

[wei]

I have been using the Zend editor as well. The code insight is quite good, better than PHPEd I my opinion. The debugging in Zend works well, and have been using it to develop PRADO.

And, as you see from jtp51 screenshots, the function code insight also displays the phpdoc comments, on the fly too

And yes, you can add templates that can behave like adding PRADO components, very nifty.

It has CVS support, but doesn't display any mini-icon on the files to indicate the cvs status. So, back to using TortoiseCVS.

And it supports utf-8 characters, but doesn't display them correctly.

I have been using it to test and develop I18N for PRADO.

Been using the evalution.

Cheers, Wei.

[jtp51]

wei: Have you gotten around the Namespace issue with trying to debug a Prado application, as mentioned in my post?

Or have you been debugging single class files that have 'development only' include files?

We would really like to hear what you have done.

Side note: I guess it is easy for me to say that ZDE is worth the money since I didn't have to buy it, but if your company or if you where able to pruchase a copy, I would say go for it.

I have been using ZDE Krypton Build 1631 and ZDE is getting better!

[hthb]

So, did you get ZDE to recognize application.spec and thus get debugging to work? I have been trying to get this working with no success.

[jasrags]

ZDE

[Tanus]

My work recently bought ZDE for me, and so far I'm quite happy with it.

Pro tip; If using objects as return values, you normally don't get any auto completion on them. What you can do is fool zend by doing

Code:

/* @var $myObject MyClass */
$myObject = MyClass::getInstace();
$myObject->

Without that /* */ comment, ZDE doesn't know anything about the type of MyClass, but with it does.

[hthb]

Did you notice that bug that causes it to not include application.spec into the project; the end effect = no debugging.

[Tanus]

You need to associate .spec files with being HTML files in Tools -> Preferences -> File Types, otherwise it won't be included in the project list (so far as I know, projects only list web documents).

[hthb]

Ok. That worked!

However, when I debug, I get : <br />
<b>Parse error</b>:  parse error, unexpected T_STRING in <b>V:/stocks/stocks/application.spec</b> on line <b>1</b><br />


Do you know how to fix that?

[teo]

And it supports utf-8 characters, but doesn't display them correctly.

you have to change the default font... e.g. in windows you have to choose a unicode font such as Arial MS unicode .... this do the job..

[gte451f]

PHP Designer 2005!

I guess I'm not a serious programmer yet

[Vasile V. Alaiba]

I'm using VIM in graphical mode (gvim) on Mandrake Linux 10.2 together with eSVN for VCS access.