Any Feedback on PHP IDEs

taking a look at Komodo

[cmarshall]

I'm hoping it's within the charter (this forum has a very sparse charter).

I am considering getting Komodo PHP. I've written many thousands of lines of PHP using the old "blind man in a dark room" technique, and have gotten pretty good at it.

However, I'm pretty used to IDEs for C++, Pascal, etc.

Any feedback?

[eelixduppy]

Awww come on! The "blind man in a dark room" technique is the best! ;)

I've downloaded the professional trial version as I too have never used a PHP IDE. Looks like it can be fun :)

[cmarshall]

I got the demo myself, so I'll give any feedback I generate.

I became good at the groping in the dark method for C, but I never could have managed C++ without the IDEs I used.

[jatar_k]

I have heard good things about it, have never used it. Even though they used to be about 15 blocks from my house and I even know some people that work there.

[cmarshall]

So far, so bad.

I don't have a really screwed-up PHP installation, but I have installed Marc Lyanage's PHP5 binaries and Pear.

Komodo crashed PHP within 5 minutes of my starting it up.

YUCK.

It smells like an X11 app (like WingWare), and has just as much complexity. I'm sure that, if I emailed their tech. support, I'd find I set some variable wrong, or whatever.

Not worth it. Komodo->Trash.

[eelixduppy]

>>>just as much complexity

I agree; it is somewhat overly complex. Some of the features are very nice, and others are totally useless.

To be honest, I think that it makes developing more difficult. It could be that I'm not used to it, I guess.

I'm going to stick with notepad++ :)

[jatar_k]

>> Not worth it. Komodo->Trash.

hehe, I've heard that too. I actually haven't seen any IDE for php that worked yet. The people who make them treat it like C++ or some other compiled language, which it isn't.

>> I'm going to stick with notepad++

same, have never used anything but textpad, I tried PHPEdit and it had some good ideas but never really worked very well. That was a while ago now and they have updated a few times since then.

Zend Studio had some promise as well but was just too much. Again it was a while ago that I used it.

[tripy]

I'd recommand you Eclipse with the phpEclipse plugin. I was using komodo before that, and appart the crashes, it was slow as hell, as it's based on the mozilla code.

Eclipse, on the other hands, has almost never crashed, and there are only some small catchup to have with phpEclipse, and all related to the syntax highlighting.

Before Komodo, I was using SciTe, but now, I always have an eclipse installed on my usb key with some much needed apps.

eclipse: [eclipse.org...]
phpEclipse: [phpeclipse.de...]