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PHP IDE options

by ronc0011
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I'm looking for a good PHP editor, preferably a free one. I've looked at Notepad++ and an editor called ConText, So far ConText seems t be a little better than Notepad++ however neither of them compare to Visual studio or Visual Web Developer. However VS doesn't natively support PHP and the add-in looks to cost about $100. The other issue I'm unclear on is the test server it uses. I spent most of a day getting WAMP installed and running. Tracking down conflicts on port 80 I really don't want to risk screwing up my Apache install. so far all is good but would really like to find a good IDE that will play nice with the WAMP install and that has the robustness of VS
#ide #options #php
  • Profile picture of the author Brandon Tanner
    I use NetBeans + XAMPP for most php projects. Good stuff.

    Another one you might want to look into is Eclipse, although personally I find NetBeans much easier to work with.
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    • Profile picture of the author ronc0011
      I'll take a look though frankly it's real easy to get really spoiled suing Visual Studio. Here's an example I can paste in a bunch of code into a blank page in VS and when I paste it in it all goes in on one line but there's a menu option "format document' The IDE will read all the tags and format the document so that it's nice and easy to read your code with each tag group separated so it's easy to tell what you're looking at. Here's another nice trick it does. If you click on an opening tag it will highlight the closing tag, so no matter how many nested tags or how long the document you can easily find the end of a code block. this kind of stuff really spoils you.
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  • Profile picture of the author shantanu
    I also use netbeans 7.0 or Myeclipse 6.5 workbench to support my PHP and they simply rocksss.
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