Posted by Aaron Saray on 01/08/08 00:31

On Jan 7, 4:25 am, "jonKush...@gmail.com" <jonKush...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Jan 7, 1:52 am, Michael Fesser <neti...@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>
>
> > .oO(jonKush...@gmail.com)
>
> > >On Jan 5, 5:52 am, "R.A.M." <r_ahims...@poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >> I have started learning PHP5. I would like to programme in Windows XP and
> > >> Fedora Linux. I have found two IDEs for PHP (if I understood correctly):
> > >> - Eclipse PDT,
> > >> - EasyEclipse for PHP.
> > >> What is the difference? Which one to choose? I would like to debug my
> > >> applications.
> > >> Please help. Thanks in advance.
> > >> /RAM/
>
> > >Ugh. Eclipse for PHP in general is garbage.
>
> > You want to elaborate on that.
>
> > >I definitely recommend
> > >never even touching its extended wamp functionalities. If you cant get
> > >your hands on a zend studio, I would definitely recommend notepad++
> > >with the debugger plugin.
>
> > >Eclipse - and PHP - just don't mix.
>
> > I'm using Eclipse/PDT and it works very well. Better than anything else
> > I've tried before.
>
> > Micha
>
> After reading at my message, I could see where my negative message
> without explanation could be offensive, so let me make myself clear. I
> used Eclipse exclusively for Java for an extremely long time.. It is,
> and will always be, the landmark of java programming studios. With
> PHP, however, I never quite got the same experience. Despite the fact
> that eclipse just did not support all of the great functions it had
> for java / c++ development, the bundle itself is decent yes.
> Autocompletion, php doc, snippets, etc. all worked fine for the most
> part. My main issue was that the eclipse app itself could not operate
> with the PHP platform. I couldn't begin to tell you the laundry list
> of options I tried to get eclipse working. It could have been the java
> version, but I doubt it because I was also using the application for
> java work. I really did love eclipse - We were huge supporters of the
> application at UF ( we should still be on the servers list of
> downloads ), but it just never seemed to work smoothly. So, with that
> EXTREMELY hindering my viewpoint, it only went downhill. Xampp
> combined with the internal browser tool just caused me to kill the
> process time after time.
>
> So, once again I am sorry if I came off in a negative manner. I am
> sure it works great for others, as I know that wonderful eclipse
> feeling you get. It's just - eclipse with PHP for me was more
> obtrusive than helpful.

Maybe you'd like to post a thread on the issues you were having? I've
installed it on multiple Windows boxes (but only one linux machine)
including the debugging features. I think there were a lot of
confusion over which instance of the 'server' was running in eclipse
with some of our newer coders.

At any rate, thanks for your clarification on your statement.

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