Posted by NC on 01/01/08 10:58

On Jan 1, 12:46 am, "R.A.M." <r_ahims...@poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
>
> Q: What tools, utility programs do you use when you are
> designing and programming PHP applications? Could you
> recommend me something?
>
> I was programming in Microsoft .NET and there are many
> tools like Reflector (code analysis), DotNetNuke and ASP.NET
> Web Matrix (to create dynamic web applications), NDoc (for
> documentation generation).

For code analysis, you'd have to go with the top of the line stuff
(Zend IDE or NuSphere phpED); you will also have to enable debugging
on your development server. Many developers, however, manage to do
without; bottlenecks in PHP are in most cases obvious, while debugging
can be done without a debugger; read up on var_dump().

Creating applications... There are tons of things you can use, from
MVC frameworks (CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Symfony, etc.) to templating
systems (phpTemplate, Smarty, etc.) to customizable off-the-shelf
applications (Drupal, Joomla!, WordPress, just to name a few).

Documentation generation is often done with phpDoc.

Have fun!
NC

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