Eclipse + PHP
Wednesday, 7. December 2005, 20:56:20
Two posts ago I was enjoying my new Linux system, but I had complains about the lack of a good PHP development environment. I have just a few requirements of such an environment, the most important of which are auto-completion of tag names and attributes, auto-insertion of tag closings and syntax coloring. I don't even need the hardest-to-implement feature of all: WYSIWYG designer like Dreamweaver has. I always code absolutely everything by hand-typing it.
After looking for alternative editors and IDEs available for Linux, I found out that Java's greatest IDE, Eclipse, has a plugin to convert it into a great PHP IDE. I downloaded the last Eclipse version and the last PHP-eclipse plugin version, and as I'm typing this post, I have it running. I just couldn't wait to come and tell about it here.
So if you're a PHP developer that likes a reasonably comfortable environment, and you haven't dropped down Windows because of Dreamweaver, here you have a solution. I should also alert you that you'll need a reasonably modern hardware, because Eclipse needs some resources (Dreamweaver needs them too).
After looking for alternative editors and IDEs available for Linux, I found out that Java's greatest IDE, Eclipse, has a plugin to convert it into a great PHP IDE. I downloaded the last Eclipse version and the last PHP-eclipse plugin version, and as I'm typing this post, I have it running. I just couldn't wait to come and tell about it here.
So if you're a PHP developer that likes a reasonably comfortable environment, and you haven't dropped down Windows because of Dreamweaver, here you have a solution. I should also alert you that you'll need a reasonably modern hardware, because Eclipse needs some resources (Dreamweaver needs them too).
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