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Eclipse Platform - PHP IDE

Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 11:10 am
by kcomer
I have been using the Eclipse Platform along with Xored Web Studio for a few hours now and I really like it so far. It has support for CVS, WebDAV, FTP and alot of other cool features. I haven't heard too much about it on this board so I thought I'd share my expirience with everyone.

The install was a snap in Windows, haven't tried it in Linux yet. They have a cool Feature Update tool to get new plugins/features from the internet. I then installed Xored WebStudio, actually you just extract the files to the eclipse directory, but it worked either way. You can debug PHP using a localy installed version or you can download a version of WebStudio with a builtin version of php for debug only. They say next week will bring a new version that can debug on a remote server, I'm waiting for this one. It's a snap to open new projects from an ftp server. Then when you have made changes, it can upload the changes or first it can show you what has changed and if there is a version conflict in the file. The syntax highlighting is great aswell.

This program is great for teams of developers, or just the lonely geek who sits coding all day and night. I would suggest trying it out if you have some free time. Here are the links.

http://www.xored.com/index.php
http://www.eclipse.org

Keith