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PHP Development Tools
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:14 pm
by Hunzian
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?
Regards
Re: PHP Development Tools
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 2:51 am
by kaisellgren
Sure. I remember there was a plugin/extension for VS with PHP syntax highlighting. Personally I like to use Zend Studio.
Re: PHP Development Tools
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:48 am
by draw7676
I personally use Dev-PHP.
Works well enough, and can parse code if an interpreter is added.
Re: PHP Development Tools
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:52 am
by pickle
The
Favourite editor thread might be of interest.
Re: PHP Development Tools
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:04 pm
by JNettles
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.

If Microsoft ever builds
decent source versioning control into VS I will be in
heaven.
Re: PHP Development Tools
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:02 am
by Hunzian
Thank you very for all. I started to use eclipse it seems quite well but not as much as visual studio.
Regards