IDE for PHP similar to Visual Studios?

Conrad11 · 13 Jun 2008 at 18:55

Hi there,

Looking for an IDE for PHP which is similar to Visual Studios in the respect that is does a "snap-to-grid" thing so the code looks nice and readable.

Is also alerts when when i haven't put the end of line delimeter or when some brackets are not closed.

Is there anything like this for PHP?

Currently using Notepad++

Thanks.

Makhaira · 13 Jun 2008 at 18:56

PHP Designer (my preference)
PHP Eclipse
Nvu

and there are many many more...

dave-lew99 · 13 Jun 2008 at 20:11

Nothing wrong with Notepad++ - i wrote my company's entire website in that, or any one of language sensitive text editors - vi/vim or gvim for windows for example

Conrad11 · 13 Jun 2008 at 22:00

Makhaira said:
PHP Designer (my preference)
PHP Eclipse
Nvu

and there are many many more...

Do these deffo do what I asked?

dave-lew99 said:
Nothing wrong with Notepad++ - i wrote my company's entire website in that, or any one of language sensitive text editors - vi/vim or gvim for windows for example

Not saying there is anything wrong with notepad++. Ideally i would like to still use it, just with what i asked for.

dave-lew99 · 13 Jun 2008 at 22:04

NP++ does do what you asked for, i think, unless we have our wires crossed

Make sure you have tab characters on and have set the language to PHP, also bring up the function list - very useful for big files.

Conrad11 · 13 Jun 2008 at 22:27

dave-lew99 said:
NP++ does do what you asked for, i think, unless we have our wires crossed

Make sure you have tab characters on and have set the language to PHP, also bring up the function list - very useful for big files.

Sort of does it, not exactly what i was after though.

I have to use the "C++ re-indent code" menu button to get it how i want - i want it to do it automatically.

EDIT:

Also - is it possible to pad the actual text editing bit so the text starts padded to the right more.

dave-lew99 · 13 Jun 2008 at 22:47

I'm not sure, i think you can do auto-tabbing though, there are also tools which you can use to auto-layout code, but not while you're writing it.

Shoseki · 14 Jun 2008 at 00:37

Eclipse PDT - full PHP development environment

Makhaira · 14 Jun 2008 at 01:25

What you're after is known as code tidying, or automatic formatting. Most editors have it included

Beansprout · 14 Jun 2008 at 05:42

Zend studio

RockLobster · 14 Jun 2008 at 09:04

Or you could use Visual Studio with this plugin - http://www.jcxsoftware.com/vs.php

Gman · 14 Jun 2008 at 18:52

another vote for zend studio here. although if its odd files i'm changing ill use 'e' or notepad++

!bluetonic! · 16 Jun 2008 at 15:47

NuSphere PHPeD.

I would personally avoid using snap-to-grid.

robmiller · 16 Jun 2008 at 16:07

It's not an IDE, but e will indent for you as you type. It also has macros to insert code templates, so typing:

Code:

if<tab>

becomes:

Code:

if ( condition ) {
    
} else {
    
}

...with tab cycling through each of the three insertion points. Which is even faster than auto-indenting

http://www.e-texteditor.com/

Conrad11 · 16 Jun 2008 at 16:19

robmiller said:
snip

Thanks, will try that, sounds good, think it would take me a while to get used to it thought.

Hodders · 17 Jun 2008 at 14:44

Just installed eclipse PDT (on Win XP) and got it working with Xdebug on an ubuntu 8.04LTS dev server and it works pretty well and it is free.