Eclipse is completely free. It has no price tag with it. And all of the plugins that I use are also free. I haven't seen a "for pay" plugin yet.<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/21/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Carl Olsen</b> <<a href="mailto:carl-olsen@mchsi.com">carl-olsen@mchsi.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I like the way that the PHP plug in for Visual Studio shows the methods and<br>properties of a class in a drop down list while I'm tying in the page. It
<br>lets me know that the class is available and also helps me remember what<br>properties and methods I created for each class. I'm often adding methods<br>as I go along and I may have added one to another project and can't remember
<br>if I added it to the one I'm working on. Methods can vary from one project<br>to another. Syntax highlighting is certainly one of the most important<br>features, but the ability to view class information from page to page is
<br>also a nice feature. I also like it when the PHP functions show up while<br>I'm typing, along with HTML and CSS attributes and their possible values.<br>Kate is certainly an improvement over a plain text editor (I actually use
<br>that one frequently when I'm working on my SUSE 9.3 machine), but I like<br>more (I mostly use Windows XP for development). Maybe it's just because I<br>still feel like I'm learning the languages. If I had all this stuff in my
<br>head, I might not need so much functionality.<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:ciapug-bounces@cialug.org">ciapug-bounces@cialug.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ciapug-bounces@cialug.org">ciapug-bounces@cialug.org
</a>] On Behalf<br>Of Dave J. Hala Jr.<br>Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 5:27 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:carl-olsen@mchsi.com">carl-olsen@mchsi.com</a>; PHP List<br>Subject: Re: [ciapug] IDE<br><br>I go through this about every 6 months. I keep thinking that if I use an
<br>IDE for PHP development, or some kind of combination PHP IDE/HTML editor<br>that it will speed things up.<br><br>I've found that I'm faster just using something simple that has syntax<br>highlighting. I use "Kate" on RHEL Workstation, for all my development.
<br>I also run Apache on the localhost. By switching from one virtual<br>desktop to another, I can develop and test very rapidly. Typically, I<br>run 8-10 desktops.<br><br><br>On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 13:08, Carl Olsen wrote:
<br>> I would like to hear comments about favorite PHP editing tools. I'm using<br>> VS.php (<a href="http://www.jcxsoftware.com">www.jcxsoftware.com</a>) which is a PHP plug in for Microsoft Visual<br>> Studio. It has fairly good object support, but I've never tried anything
<br>> else. The other PHP programmer in our office is using a trial version of<br>> Zend Studio, but he says it doesn't have much support for other languages,<br>> particularly HTML and CSS (VS.php has limited support for HTML, code hints
<br>> while you are typing inline). Are there any other good tools for object<br>> oriented web site programming with PHP?<br>><br>> Ideally, I'm looking for something that has good support for HTML and CSS.<br>
><br>> Carl<br>> <a href="http://www.carl-olsen.com/">http://www.carl-olsen.com/</a><br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> ciapug mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:ciapug@cialug.org">
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