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Hunzian
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PHP Development Tools

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I am an asp.net developer and used visual studio. Very new to php. Can any buddy tell me which tools I can use for the development. Can I use visual studio?

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Sure. I remember there was a plugin/extension for VS with PHP syntax highlighting. Personally I like to use Zend Studio.
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I personally use Dev-PHP.

Works well enough, and can parse code if an interpreter is added.
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The Favourite editor thread might be of interest.
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
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I switch between two different ones: VS.PHP which is the plugin for Visual Studio (though it costs $100, and if I remember correctly Visual Studio 2010 will support PHP out of the box (tears of joy)) and Eclipse/Zend Studio.

I do my full-blown project development in Zend but I do my class construction and prototyping in VS.PHP. I really wish I could work in Visual Studio all the time with it but unfortunately VS.PHP behaves more like a hack and so I don't really consider it the most stable environment - the plus side is that the debugger is very smooth and behaves just like I'm working in .NET, so I use VS.PHP when I need to throw together a new class that will have me setting fifteen breakpoints and running the script fifty times (and I love how each project comes with its own php.ini instance, so I can tinker with the settings until I hit the right mix w/o digging through my local apache configs).

That said, Zend (or Eclipse, they're the same program but Zend is a dedicated spin of Eclipse PHP and handles Intellisense, team support, and debugging a bit more smoothly than Eclipse) is much stronger on project management and syncs up beautifully with my Subversion repositories. The only downside is that I hate running the debugger - its slow and can be temperamental at times.

Can't wait for that native VS support. :D If Microsoft ever builds decent source versioning control into VS I will be in heaven.
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Thank you very for all. I started to use eclipse it seems quite well but not as much as visual studio.

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