Can't find a decent PHP development environment
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 4:32 am
Is there a decent PHP Development Environment out there anywhere, on any platform?
Ok, that sounds a bit curmudgeonly I admit, but the history behind this query is as follows.
I've been using BBEdit on the Mac for a long time as a simple plain text editor for coding my PHP scripts. Which was fine until I was introduced to Zend at my last job. I love all the little extras that Zend provides like function name completion and tooltips showing the parameters and best of all the fact that it can traverse a project and present all your own custom classes methods and functions for you as well.
The downside of Zend is that I find it buggy and annoying. I may be casting aspertions here but I blame it all on the fact it's coded in Java. I've never seen a Java app that wasn't unstable or slow or both. Java, as far as I'm concerned is evil.
In my new job we recently switched from Zend to Eclipse in the hope it would be a little less troublesome, although to be honest they are happy for us to use anything we like. I've been using Eclipse on my PC at work for the last month or so and have installed it on my Mac at home, but in all honesty I think it suffers from all the same issues as Zend does, and that all those issues are down to the fact it's built in Java. It behaves erratically, I lose code all over the place when the entire text of a document just seems to explode, and today I found a new bug where it won't let me undo, copy or paste anything so I can't even rescue the file I'm working on.
I want a better DE, one not built in Java. Basically I want BBEdit with code completion. Is there a decent PHPDE built in Cocoa for Mac somewhere? or anything for Windows that doesn't crash constantly?
All suggestions welcome.
Cheers
Lee
Ok, that sounds a bit curmudgeonly I admit, but the history behind this query is as follows.
I've been using BBEdit on the Mac for a long time as a simple plain text editor for coding my PHP scripts. Which was fine until I was introduced to Zend at my last job. I love all the little extras that Zend provides like function name completion and tooltips showing the parameters and best of all the fact that it can traverse a project and present all your own custom classes methods and functions for you as well.
The downside of Zend is that I find it buggy and annoying. I may be casting aspertions here but I blame it all on the fact it's coded in Java. I've never seen a Java app that wasn't unstable or slow or both. Java, as far as I'm concerned is evil.
In my new job we recently switched from Zend to Eclipse in the hope it would be a little less troublesome, although to be honest they are happy for us to use anything we like. I've been using Eclipse on my PC at work for the last month or so and have installed it on my Mac at home, but in all honesty I think it suffers from all the same issues as Zend does, and that all those issues are down to the fact it's built in Java. It behaves erratically, I lose code all over the place when the entire text of a document just seems to explode, and today I found a new bug where it won't let me undo, copy or paste anything so I can't even rescue the file I'm working on.
I want a better DE, one not built in Java. Basically I want BBEdit with code completion. Is there a decent PHPDE built in Cocoa for Mac somewhere? or anything for Windows that doesn't crash constantly?
All suggestions welcome.
Cheers
Lee