IDE for PHP

[adam291086]

Hello,

 

I am a Final year Student. We are having to use an IDE for application development. I.e automatic code generation. We basically need to take a database structure and using a IDE generate some php code automatically.

 

For example

generate a web form automatically from a database table.

 

I have no idea if this is possible within php but you can do something similar with Java

 

Is there an IDE out there that have this ability. I can code the project from scratch but the aim of the course is to use some development tools to cut down the coding times

 

Any suggestions are appreciated

 

Adam 

 

 

 

[RussellReal]

dreamweaver

 

although IDEs aren't really meant to code it for you, its mostly for code hinting and highlighting, but dreamweaver is the primary choice of lazy developers.

[Mchl]

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/board,16.0.html

 

And as usual I recommend NetBeans

[adam291086]

I am planning to use netbeans. I can code all this from scratch.

 

But for example if i was coding this is Java i could use jdeveloper and basically generate some UML diagrams and convert that into code.

 

With Netbeans is there away to generate a html form quickly for the database field names ect?

[Mchl]

None that I know of.

There are however libraries that generate PHP code for db access.

See 'Doctrine ORM' for exmaple.

[adam291086]

Is there any library i can use within netbeans that will turn a table structure into a Html form???