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Everah wrote:A ton of editors do that. I know PSPad does, Zend Studio does. I am not sure if Eclipse does but I would guess someone has built a plugin for it.
Eclipse does so you can edit directly off of the server, or click a button that will publish your changes to the ftp server. Does the same thing with SVN.
And its a huge pain to setup and is completely unintuitive.
Is there any IDE that allows you to view your MySQL databases from within the IDE? Something like the side panel of Visual C++ where you can see your classes and all of their members.. it would be useful to see all of your tables and all of their columns in that way. It would make things easier where you'd otherwise have to open up phpMyAdmin and hunt down information that way.
I know ZendStudio had a database object viewer. I haven't used any others that have made that prominently known.
Of course, I spend a lot of time either in WebYog or at the CLI, so I would personally never user this feature, but I know that at least Zend Studio has offered it in the past.
Interesting, but ZendStudio looks really expensive ($254 eek).
That Eclipse plugin looks good. I've never used Eclipse much, though.. I tried it out when I was using Fedora Core and that's about it. I might have to try that out later..
FYI, that SQL Explorer plugin kicks butt. The perspective is hot. Just remember to follow the instructions here for adding your MySQL driver to the list of drivers.
I choose 'Other...', as I'm using Eclipse with the PDT plug-in.
I use it for about a year now and I can't imagine working with something else. Not specifically because of it PHP support, which is simply satisfying. Debugging is made easier by including some external extensions into the latest PDT version. Zend debugger and Xdebug support are both intergrated (you still need the debugger installed at apache/php level of course).
But a couple of plug-ins makes my development experience complete. Subclipse, FileSync and Mylyn. Subclipse is for subversion intergration and FileSync does automatic deployement of projects to my test server. Mylyn is a great intergrated task manager, which handles local tasks and external issue tracking systems, like Bugzilla, Trac etc.
I switch between SciTE and Dreamweaver. I use SciTE, because it has an output pane where you can see if the php works (or has errors). Dreamweaver, if there is a lot of HTML in the page.
I used htmlkit for years but got tired of the IE preview and all the bulky addons. So i tried notepad++ but didn't lik the coloring sythax. Now I use scite because I like the coloring and its lightweight.