Comments on: Searching for the Perfect IDE Experience

By: john

john — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:54:14 +0000

You have written exactly my thoughts down !
I also have stuck with editplus with a similar ammount of attempts at the whole range of ides.

The only one i do quite like at the moment is the Jetbrains Webide one – which is still in beta but does look promising……

mind you i love editplus – excellent editor !

By: James Dempster

James Dempster — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:33:13 +0000

I’d also suggest Netbeans. It doesn’t have everything but I’ve certainly found the best out of all the IDEs including the expensive ZendStudio. Netbeans PHP is free crossplatform and fast.

By: forsooth

forsooth — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:03:03 +0000

I play around with IDEs also, and am currently experimenting with Programmer’s Notepad.

http://www.pnotepad.org/

It has a very small footprint and seems to be flexible.

What about code snippets? I bought a program named treepadfile (http://www.treepad.com/) for this. But of course, no syntax coloring as it is mainly for text items.

Thanks for the article.

By: schnalle

schnalle — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:50:19 +0000

for php dev i currently use eclipse at work, netbeans at home for bigger projects (because of the code completion) and for quick hacks i use editplus. i tried to switch to notepad++ several times, but it just doesn’t feel right.

i like netbeans more than eclipse, but i can’t really say why. maybe because it feels slimmer and faster.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:38:29 +0000

You may want to consider IntelliJ IDEA. It’s commercial, but it’s worth every penny. It’s Java support is the best in the industry, and it has strong support for HTML/Javascript/CSS including refactorings. PHP support is there too:

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/php_editor.html

Note that Jetbrains also have a new IDE in development that is targeted specifically at web dev, including PHP. You can download an early access preview from here:

http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/WI/Web+IDE+EAP

http://blogs.jetbrains.com/webide/

Enjoy

By: abcphp.com

abcphp.com — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:24:57 +0000

Searching for the Perfect IDE Experience | Made of Everything You’re Not | Eric Lamb…

Right now, and the last 4 years really, I use EditPlus for all my PHP development but from time to time I dip my toes in the IDE waters to see if I can make a switch for something a little more… helpful. I’ve always had a love/hate thing going on with …

By: Jamed

Jamed — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:54:32 +0000

Neatbeans PHP is far better than Eclipse PHP. Eclipse PHP is good but Nerbeans is way more efficent and advanced for PHP development.

By: Justin Dalton

Justin Dalton — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:50:57 +0000

You might want to give Netbeans a try. I have tried just about every IDE out there and once Netbeans came out with PHP support I tried it. I find it runs much better than eclipse and has plugins for just about every language I would want to write in.

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:26:14 +0000

On windows many years ago I used to use Homesite by Allaire < Macromedia < Adobe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromedia_HomeSite

It was very good from memory, but was recently discontinued, but hey I bet it still works.

I know they integrated many features into Dreamweaver which I tried but it was way to bloated. Now I'm on a mac with Textmate which is OK too.

By: Warren Benedetto

Warren Benedetto — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:56:59 +0000

I use Eclipse PDT + Aptana, and it is amazing. I get full code completion, awesome syntax highlighting, FTP/SFTP, SVN (via Subversive), SSH via (Target Management), and Trac (via Mylyn) all in one package.

If you’re looking for standalone remote file access, try the RSE (Remote System Explorer) package. I believe that will also do what you need.