Posted by Ramon on 10/24/05 11:45

Using Zend Studio at the moment. IMO opinion there's nothing out there
other then Zend and perhaps NuSphere (which I haven't tried)for large
scale PHP development.

And anyone that stated in this thread that they don't need anything more
then textpad, obviously have not worked on a large scale PHP project.
When you have multiple people if not teams working on the same project,
its a bloody pain in the ass to have to look up what some tool, in some
other department called a fanction and what parameters it takes.

Thats only the start, IDEs (Zend) in this case provide me with several
other features:

1) Debugger, this is a must, being able to view objects / array /
variables run time, cuts down development time by at least 50% (probably
more). Instead of having to print_r() every second line to find out
whats going on.

2) Integratted PHPDoc, those of you who came out with guns blazing
saying TextPad is all I need ra.. ra.. ra.. May not have the use for it,
but my team and I certainly do.

Integrated CVS, FTP, SFTP, Database browser, Table Browser (for most
db's including oracle 10g), Code analyser, profiler, watches,
breakpoints, projects, auto indentatio.

Thats just a few of the features that come to mind, yes Zend support is
really terrible... I mean really bad. But as far as large scale PHP
development goes you can't go past it. Yes, I understand that people
strugle with change, but you are prooving nothing to me saying that you
can do it all with TextPad. I used to be in the same shoes, sure you can
do it with TextPad, its only going to take you alot more time.


typingcat@gmail.com wrote:
> First of all, I'm an Asian and I need to input Japanese, Korean and so
> on. I've tried many PHP IDEs today, but almost non of them supported
> Unicode (UTF-8) file.
>
> I've found that the only Unicode support IDEs are DreamWeaver 8 and
> Zend PHP Studio.
>
> DreamWeaver provides full support for Unicode. However, DreamWeaver is
> a web editor rather than a PHP IDE. It only supports basic IntelliSense
> (or code completion) and doesn't have anything like a class view.
>
> Zend PHP Studio supports Unicode but have many problems. It couldn't
> display Korean when I set a Japanese font for the editor, and couldn't
> display Japanese when I set a Korean font for the editor. The most
> obvious problem is it's too slow. It provides really good support for
> coding like class view, debugging and advanced IntelliSense, but it's
> too slow for my PC.
>
> I think you're PHP professinals. What do you use for PHP development?
> I'd like to hear from you. Thanks.
>

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