Php Ide

[shoaibi]

I have been using Visual studi.net since a time now, i amswitching to PHP for the time being, but i couldn't find any good IDE for PHP development as great as VS.NET., what i found was:

PDT: it lacks the functionality of drag and drop.
Quanta: This is nice, but drag and drop items are quite limited.

Isn't there any IDE for PHP which has nice interface, nice drag and drop features, etc?


[EDIT]:
I am using Linux.

[miteshpandey]

You can use ECLIPSE for PHP in Linux.

I am using "Zend Studio" for PHP in my Windows XP system. However I don't know if "Zend Studio" is available under Linux or not.

However the major difference between ECLIPSE and Zend Studio is that the former one is free and based on open-source project while Zend Studio is a commercial product.

[PeejAvery]

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[PeejAvery]

PHP is a server-side language. There are no visual aspects of it, so there would be no drag-and-drop features. I assume you are talking about the HTML aspect. If this is not the case, can you please explain yourself?

For a good free web authoring IDE, look into NVU.

[gitter1226]

Zend Studio does allow you to trace through your PHP code for debugging which is a big advantage over Eclipse. Personally? I use vim. ;-)

[shoaibi]

well i know there isn't any drag and drop required in php, but i was talking about the html front end interface, like we do in vs.net, we drag and drop all the html front end form elements and just right the logic behind in c# or vb.net, i wonder if there is an ide for php, which will allow drag and drop of html elements and then wrting the prog logic in php by ourself, thus saving us from the hectic process of coding each html element by ourself.......

[kimoo]

well you may use

1. Macromedia Dreamweaver (not bad)
2. you may also use this => http://www.jcxsoftware.com/vs.php you
integrate it with Visual Studio (you may like it.. )
3. http://www.activestate.com/products/komodo_ide/ (never tried it)


and ofcourse you can use the mother of all compliers (notepad.exe)

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http://sourceforge.net/projects/devphp/
enjoy!
kimoo

[yantra]

I use Codelobster php edition. I've recently recommended it for handy step by step debugger.
Among other its pluses are an intelligent outocomplete, Class view with code elements of the project;help on php, html, mysql; search in the project....
Small size!

www.codelobster.com

It's free