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koala_linux
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Starting PHP

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Hi, this is my first post and also my first time to learn PHP.
Any suggestions about which to use on Gnu/Linux? (IDE,Editor)

Thanks alot :D
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I can't help much with IDE recommendations as I've never really used an IDE except for when I've been forced to use Eclipse for my Java programming. In my experience and from my programming courses I've learned it's usually better to start out learning to program without an IDE so that you have to write all the code and you have to fully understand what you are doing. I spent some time in college making applications in Delphi with an IDE and realised when I got to university that I knew nothing about fundamental concepts of programming because the IDE had handled all the details for me.


As I said I can't really recommend an IDE but if you are going to use a text editor then I don't think it matters too much which one you choose as long as it has syntax highlighting for the language you are developing in. I always used nedit when i was coding in Linux, but I believe emacs is a more powerful text editor and is popular among developers.
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There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't
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PDT for Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/
Zend Studio (I suggest getting the older 5.5 version, the current one is pretty unstable) - http://www.zend.com/products/studio/downloads-prev
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VladSun wrote:http://php.netbeans.org/ looks nice.
I know it's not really a reflection of how good or bad the IDE is, but the code in the screen shot on the first page is terrible. :?
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onion2k wrote:I know it's not really a reflection of how good or bad the IDE is, but the code in the screen shot on the first page is terrible. :?
:D :D :D
Maybe they are trying to expose all of syntax hi-lighting features in a single screenshot.
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Well, they exposed something alright ... :wink:

Is it just me or do all IDE's look exactly the same? I wonder what one designed by Apple or Adobe would look like...
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I've been using netbeans for java and now on PHP. I would like to ask although I'm not yet on designing on PHP or HTML, is it also possible doing these stuffs on netbeans just like dreamweaver? I don't know how to use dreamweaver that much though but I'm familiar with it's feature... :)

Quanta Plus looks like dreamweaver but I don't know how to get around same with Bluefish...

Thanks for the replies
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