Comments on: PhpEd is: The last Web Development IDE you will ever use

By: Ananda Rudra

Ananda Rudra — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:15:45 +0000

I am using phpED for near about a year now. I was using dreamweaver prior to that.Just put yourself into the beauty of phpED once. I can assure you will never revert to any other IDE. It's the dam best thing in the market. Here is a comparison chart.Seeing is believing,

By: JackT

JackT — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:01:24 +0000

I have phpEd. I wouldn’t be without it as a debugger, and the parenthesis matching is invaluable. It will more than pay for itself on the first job. It’s one of the best investments I’ve made. However, there is no way that it will be “The last Web Development IDE you will ever use” Dreamweaver has that hands down. phpEd is good at one thing, PHP, and it’s very good at it. You CAN use its parenthesis matching to advantage for JavaScript too, but it has no intelligent code indenting / formatting for any language, including PHP. It may well be “The last PHP IDE you will ever use.” and if they added code formatting, there would be no maybe about it.

By: Greg-J

Greg-J — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:47:11 +0000

Thank you for the link to e James. I’ll be downloading it and trying it out here shortly and I’ll post back with my thoughts on it.

As for RoR…
Ruby has never offered me anything desirable and developing on Rails won’t change that. If it did I’d be using OnTrax or Akelos – neither of which I find very useful. To me it’s just a lot of fuss and overhead for little gain. That said, it’s obviously got something people like because it was a pretty hot buzz-word for a while there.

By: James Harrison

James Harrison — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:14:54 +0000

Aptana is pretty well done. I never did like Notepad++ or any other pure text editor, but TextMate (for Mac only- there's a clone for Windows I currently use called e ) is truly excellent to work with. I highly recommend checking it out. It's not as huge a program as PHPed or Zend Studio, but it's lightweight enough it never gets in the way, and the Bundles give you near-limitless flexibility for code completion, snippets, and so on. I've moved on from PHP development (I'm in RoR now) but I tended to use Aptana and Dreamweaver when I did PHP devel.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:03:53 +0000

I agree with you that, for starters, like me, the code completion and syntax highlighting are trouble