[Web4lib] Development interface and editor

[Steven Turner]

The Zend IDE was quite nice - I used to use that quite a lot.

Steven Turner
Associate Professor
Library Web Services Manager
The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries
Phone: 601.266.2066
Email: Steven.turner at usm.edu

On Apr 1, 2010, at 7:05 AM, "Cox, Thomas" <Thomas.Cox at tufts.edu> wrote:

> Good morning Jorge:
>
> Coming from a .NET background (coding C# in Visual Studio), I've been
> looking for an IDE solution for PHP.  So far I'm quite pleased with  
> PDT in
> Eclipse:
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/
>
> Thom
>
>
> On 4/1/10 12:03 AM, "Jorge Biquez" <jbiquez at icsmx.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all.
>> I am sorry if this is kind of off-topic.
>>
>> - Can you comment about what GUI interface do you use (if any) for
>> PHP Development?
>>
>> - Can you comment on what editor do you use for PHP development? (yes
>> i know is a matter of what you like but since I do not use any other
>> that simple notepad looking for better options).
>>
>> I will explain a little further.
>>
>> Actually I am running Freebsd 7.3 on a couple of production servers.
>> No problem. I installed the exact same configuration on a vmware
>> machine on my old laptop and everything is running fine. Both
>> configurations have the same packages and everything. That way I can
>> test before putting under productions and could be able to work even
>> without internet connection.
>>
>> Since I have no previous experience I am using notepad as my simple
>> text editor for php and do ftp the php files to the virtual freebsd
>> machine. I know I can edit directly under the freebsd machine and I
>> have done using ee as my simple editor.
>>
>> I have developed under other languages but now I need to get a new
>> job and I am working hard to became a more than a novice php
>> developer with mysql.
>>
>> Anyway, can you give me your advice on what are my best options to
>> have a GUI interface or a good editor. I have been asking friends
>> also. I friend told me to move to mac and use bbedit with a php
>> extension or something like that. 
Another told me to get anold
>> product for developing web pages that has its own editor and ready
>> for php. The advantage is that has syntax checking and a help
>> included with php syntax uses, examples, etc. ANother told me to use
>> Eclipse  and the last one told me to buy a product that the guys from
>> programmer's paradise that if I am not wrong is a gui for development
>> only under php (problem here is budget since I guess is kind of
>> expensive) As I mentioned I do not have experience and that's why I
>> am asking that.
>>
>> I hope you can share your thoughts and experience.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
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