Eight PHP IDEs Compared 206
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snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Rick Grehen provides an in-depth comparative review of eight PHP IDEs: ActiveState's Komodo IDE, CodeLobster PHP Edition, Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT), MPSoftware's phpDesigner, NetBeans IDE for PHP, NuSphere's PhpED, WaterProof's PHPEdit, and Zend Studio. 'All of these PHP toolkits offer strong support for the other languages and environments (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL database) that a PHP developer encounters. The key differences we discovered were in the tools they provide (HTML inspector, SQL management system) for various tasks, the quality of their documentation, and general ease-of-use,' Grehen writes.'"
Do any of them assess performance? (Score:5, Interesting)
This is not a troll, I swear! Are there any good performance assessment tools used during development? If so, do they work well with any of these IDEs? I don't do a lot of PHP work but it would be nice to have a tool that could audit code, advise on which lines were the most resource-intensive, and recommend lighter weight procedures.
VHS, x86, Microsoft Windows (Score:3, Interesting)
How is it that when given a set of options, the majority of users will select the worst possible one?
They didn't review Notepad, but I would wager that it is pretty well used by a majority of PHP "developers"
yep (Score:4, Interesting)
Two of the top choices are free and open. I don't know how people who build proprietary tools are going to stay in business. It's not like the commercial stuff crushed the open stuff in this comparison. I've moved to Netbeans for pretty much everything. It's a solid, multiplatform solution and the open nature is very nice. Komodo is built on an open editor, but moving up to the full featured IDE is pretty pricey. At $399 a pop I've never tried Zend Studio and based on this - I don't think I'm missing much.
Coda (Score:3, Interesting)
I use panic software's CODA for my php development (OSX). Its not really as full featured as these (no debugger), but for the fairly basic php web sites I code, it works great. I like that you can click a tab and snap into the page your creating in a functional browser. I use YourSQL for MYSQL database management, which still works but is no longer being developed.
Re:Coda (Score:3, Interesting)
You might want to look at MySQL Workbench [mysql.com]. I've been messing with it a bit for a couple weeks and really like it so far. I'm running it on Fedora but there is an OSX release.
Bluefish (Score:1, Interesting)
For all my web development needs (incl html, css, javascript, java, php and mysql) under Linux there is Bluefish [openoffice.nl]!
Re:Eclipse PDT? (Score:3, Interesting)
same here im still on Zend 5.5
new Zend based on Eclipse and Eclipse PDT and Netbeans are just to "slow" and i have a nice workstation
Re:you dont need to quote developers. (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:yep (Score:3, Interesting)
> it's the most comprehensive PHP IDE there is.
Perhaps. If you run windows. The lack of cross platform options is a massive fail IMO.
Re:Left out my favorite (Score:3, Interesting)
Want debugging? Eclipse and Xdebug, you can even get Zend's own debugging system by downloading their shared object file which is free. Same goes for profiling, auto-completion, etc, you can get it yourself with a bit of work if you don't want to pay.
If someone with too much money supports Zend out of laziness I'm okay with that.