Posted by cjl on 02/24/06 16:12

PHPers:

I am a total beginner, so please excuse my very simple question.

I have been playing with PHP on Windows XP, and mostly using Notepad2
(http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html) for editing. It has syntax
highlighting, which is all I thought I needed.

I decided to learn the Qcodo framework (http://www.qcodo.com/). In the
introductory screencast, the developer is using the Zend Studio IDE.
He has a project open, and when the Qcodo framework generates new files
into a subdirectory of the project directory, those new files are
automatically added to the project. Not only are the new files
automatically detected and added to the project, but the class methods
and properties frome the generated files are added to the code
completion.

I guess my question is about this combination of features: 1)
Automatically detecting generated files, 2) Code completion that scans
all files in a project.

Will I find these features in other editors or IDEs? What are the
actual name of these features? For example, with PHP-Eclipse I can get
the code completion to work, but I think files must be added to a
project manually.

Any help is appreciated, and I apologize for asking what must be a FAQ.

-cjlesh

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