Eight PHP IDEs Compared

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 3, 2010 @03:32AM from the colonic-extraction dept.

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Rick Grehen provides an in-depth comparative review of eight PHP IDEs: ActiveState's Komodo IDE, CodeLobster PHP Edition, Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT), MPSoftware's phpDesigner, NetBeans IDE for PHP, NuSphere's PhpED, WaterProof's PHPEdit, and Zend Studio. 'All of these PHP toolkits offer strong support for the other languages and environments (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL database) that a PHP developer encounters. The key differences we discovered were in the tools they provide (HTML inspector, SQL management system) for various tasks, the quality of their documentation, and general ease-of-use,' Grehen writes.'"

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Re:Bluefish by Anonymous Coward · 2010-02-03 05:29 · Score: -1, Troll

> For all my web development needs (incl html, css, javascript, java, php and mysql) under Linux there is Bluefish!
Yet another free tool only a programmer could love.
Nevertheless, I decided to give it a try on the Mac (requires Darwin Ports):
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: xorg-renderproto
Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
Error: Unable to execute port: upgrade gtk2 failed
FAIL! Sorry, that's all the time I'm willing to spend wrestling with dependencies and compile options. I've got work to do.
Seriously, get into the 21st century, guys.