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I have tried many of the PHP IDEs. I always find myself going back to zend studio 5.5. The eclipse based zend studio is slow and bloated and a downgraded from t

I have tried many of the PHP IDEs. I always find myself going back to zend studio 5.5. The eclipse based zend studio is slow and bloated and a downgraded from the standalone version. It's unfortunate they didnt continue the development. I also played with Aptana on 4 or 5 occasions. I have followed the project for years and just cant make the switch. I always find little annoying bugs or inconsistency. Intellisense is still pretty new for PHP in Aptana, which was another deterrent. PhpED also fell flat for me. If you are going to use an IDE go with Zend 5.5, otherwise VIM or notepad++ is your best bet.

cjc 18y ago
Disclaimer: I work 7 feet away from agotterer. I convinced him to try VIM a few months ago. He tried it for a week but didn't find it productive so switched back to zend. I blame myself for not fully explaining the productivity benefits of a properly configured VIM environment, so I'll try again: Learning VIM requires a huge time commitment (weeks, even months before it is truly second nature). However, after 'getting it', there is less of a barrier between your brain and you code. I have code completion, good syntax highlighting, syntax verification, and keyboard shortcuts to do anything and everything to my text. My IDE is pre-installed on every sever I've ever seen. I am highly recommending using VIM as an all purpose text editor, and specifically as a PHP IDE. Knowing it is a skill that be used whether you are an author, developer, sysadmin, or any occupation that requires typing.
- nikblack 18y ago
  +1 for vim, which I didn't mention. I don't run X on *nix so when I am doing dev there I use vim, and have done so for a long long time
- raamdev 18y ago
  I use both VIM and Eclipse PDT on a regular basis. Recently, while looking for a nice free Eclipse plugin that gives me vi key bindings (I haven't found one yet), I came across an interesting project: Eclim (http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ http://eclim.sourceforge.net/) While most Eclipse plugins bring vi functionality to Eclipse, Eclim goes the other way and brings Eclipse IDE functionality to VIM (using an Eclipse plugin that acts as a server-interface to a collection of VIM plugins). I haven't tried it yet, but it sounds interesting. VIM is definitely top dog. I remember how excited I was when I learned how to use ":vsplit" and ":e ." -- I spent the next few years using it as my IDE. (Off topic, but equally as exciting was my recent discovery that the screen utility can do split-windows! Yes, I need to RTFM more often!)

cjc 18y ago

Disclaimer: I work 7 feet away from agotterer. I convinced him to try VIM a few months ago. He tried it for a week but didn't find it productive so switched back to zend. I blame myself for not fully explaining the productivity benefits of a properly configured VIM environment, so I'll try again: Learning VIM requires a huge time commitment (weeks, even months before it is truly second nature). However, after 'getting it', there is less of a barrier between your brain and you code. I have code completion, good syntax highlighting, syntax verification, and keyboard shortcuts to do anything and everything to my text. My IDE is pre-installed on every sever I've ever seen. I am highly recommending using VIM as an all purpose text editor, and specifically as a PHP IDE. Knowing it is a skill that be used whether you are an author, developer, sysadmin, or any occupation that requires typing.

nikblack 18y ago
+1 for vim, which I didn't mention. I don't run X on *nix so when I am doing dev there I use vim, and have done so for a long long time
raamdev 18y ago
I use both VIM and Eclipse PDT on a regular basis. Recently, while looking for a nice free Eclipse plugin that gives me vi key bindings (I haven't found one yet), I came across an interesting project: Eclim (http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ http://eclim.sourceforge.net/) While most Eclipse plugins bring vi functionality to Eclipse, Eclim goes the other way and brings Eclipse IDE functionality to VIM (using an Eclipse plugin that acts as a server-interface to a collection of VIM plugins). I haven't tried it yet, but it sounds interesting. VIM is definitely top dog. I remember how excited I was when I learned how to use ":vsplit" and ":e ." -- I spent the next few years using it as my IDE. (Off topic, but equally as exciting was my recent discovery that the screen utility can do split-windows! Yes, I need to RTFM more often!)