Posted by Veign on 10/11/06 23:01

Intellisense in PHP would be great.

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"Johnny" <removethis.huuanito@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Veign" <NOSPAMveign1@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> "Bit Byte" <root@yourbox.com> wrote in message
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>> >I am looking for a (free) IDE for PHP5 development. I am currently using
>> >emac/vim (on Linux) and EditPlus on Windows. But I terribly miss
>> >features
>> >like:
>> >
>> > 1. Ability to debug code (i.e. step through code and set breakpoints
> etc)
>> > 2. class browser
>> > 3. code browser (like emacs etags command)
>> > 4. Intellisense (on Microsoft Platform)
>> >
>> > Is there any (free?) IDE out there that has these features ?. I came
>> > accross EclipsePHP (or PHPEclipse?) a while back, but ITRC I could not
> get
>> > it to work with my existing WAMP configuration, it wanted to work with
>> > a
>> > pre-packaged WAMP install - so I had no choice than to ditch it - any
>> > suggestions on a free IDE that has some (atleast the first three
> features,
>> > the last one would be a NTH)?
>> >
>>
>> This is the one I have used and works great (personal version is free):
>> http://www.mpsoftware.dk/downloads.php
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>> Chris
>> http://www.veign.com / http://www.veign.com/blog
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> phpdesigner has many of the features but the personal version is quite
> limited compared to the professional version:
>
> http://www.mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php
>
> I tried out their 2005 version which had lots of features, but when they
> moved to 2006 it lost an essential, for me, part of it's functionality the
> tabs to spaces feature in the auto formatting and when I looked in their
> bugs they claimed to have fixed that whereas it clearly was still broken
> so
> I moved on. Now they have up-revved again to 2007.
> I don't now if the class browser has improved but back then it was simply
> a
> view of the names of the classes used in the currently open file showing
> in
> a column on the right. You could click on a class and open it. That's some
> help but not a whole lot, specially not when compared to the productivity
> of
> intellisense. Maybe it has improved. I'll never now as there appears no
> way
> to find out without buying.
> The integrated browser preview was ok but I never found as useful as an
> actual browser and for me it cluttered the interface. If you have all of
> heir functionality open at the same time there's no room for the code
> window, fortunately you can pick and choose.
> The auto-complete functionality is quite cool though.
>
> Here's an editor that you can preview for a month and then have to buy but
> there is also a free debugger separately or you get it bundled with the
> editor. Looks good but caveat I haven't tried either, yet.
> http://www.ankord.com/
>
> and wouldn't I love a version of intellisense for PHP programming...
> anyone
> know of anything similar?
>
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