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PHP Development Environments?

Posted by Cliff on from the programming-personal-home-pages dept.

rbolkey queries: "I've been looking for a comparison between Zend's PHP IDE, NuSphere's PHPEd, and Maguma's PHP4EE, but have failed to find any. Does anyone know how these IDEs compare? Are they useful? Are they worth the price?" We last handled this question over a year ago. PHP has changed since then, and I'm sure more development tools for PHP have been released since then. What recommendations do you have for PHP coding environments? What features do you find the most useful?

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  1. Try Komodo by EnVisiCrypt · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Activestate's Komodo has an excellent interface, excellent color coding as well as the ability to debug XSLT files, if you are so inclined. It also has an excellent regular expression builder (handy if you ever delve into PERL), it doesn't do too bad with TCL, either.

    It works with windows or Linux and is available on a trial, educational, or professional license basis.

    I've been using it for about 3 months and it's been rock solid so far. Better than anything else I've used.

    btw, activestate's developer network is an excellent resource, too.

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  2. Re:Mac-side tools by ibbey · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I agree. I haven't had a Mac for 3 or four years, but the one thing that I really miss is BBEdit. No editor for Unix or Windows matches BBEdit's perfect balance of ease and power, all wrapped up in a clean interface. And, even 5 or 6 years ago, it provided HTML tools superior to anything I have found since. Who needs wysiwyg when the tools are that easy?