JonnoTheDev Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Someone reccommend an IDE please. One that has FTP capabilities. Dreamweaver is finally doing my head in, keeps losing my settings and duplicating my projects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 NetBeans is pretty good. If you have the money, so is Zend Studio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted November 18, 2009 Author Share Posted November 18, 2009 Ill try out netbeans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 You can safely download 6.8 Beta. It has no stability issue, and there's no namespace support for PHP in 6.7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xsist10 Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Eclipse is pretty good too and comes with a number of plugins (like FTP, SVN and CVS support) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 I've been using Netbeans for about a year now. I used Dreamweaver before that. I don't even run a WAMP server anymore, I just use the publish settings to upload to my home linux box everytime I save so I have less running on my windows machine. Nice little feature. There is also version control built in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted November 18, 2009 Author Share Posted November 18, 2009 I've been using Netbeans for about a year now. I used Dreamweaver before that. Trying netbeans now. Got a couple of querks. Im not used to the code colouring. It was much better in DW, can it be changed? To FTP files to a remote server you have to right click the file and select upload. Can there not be a ctrl key macro'd to the keyboard to do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 I've been using Netbeans for about a year now. I used Dreamweaver before that. Trying netbeans now. Got a couple of querks. Im not used to the code colouring. It was much better in DW, can it be changed? To FTP files to a remote server you have to right click the file and select upload. Can there not be a ctrl key macro'd to the keyboard to do this? Highlighting options are in Tools > Options > Font and Colors You can set the project as Remote Web Site, so that it will upload the files to indicated FTP account on each save. (right click on project and select properties) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Right, you have a few options, you can upload on save or on run. You can have multiple run settings so that you can develop locally and then upload by quickly switching to the remote run mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted November 18, 2009 Author Share Posted November 18, 2009 cool, ill check it out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrg_alpha Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 I too used to be a DW user (Macromedia Version 8 ). Truth be told, when I initially tried NetBeans, I didn't care much for it.. so I switched back to DW for a while.. then went back to give it another shot (as I did like the code highlighting). Once I really started to get used to NetBeans (and it's nuances and shortcuts and such), DW just collected dust on the hard drive so to speak. I was also initially not happy with NetBean's syntax colouring.. but once I got used to it, I didn't care anymore. Now I won't go back to any other IDE. NetBeans does all I need. There... that's my puiblic service announcement for the day. My name is nrg_alpha, and I approve this message! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roopurt18 Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 NetBeans and Eclipse are Ok. But they suffer from the same sluggishness as all Java apps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted November 19, 2009 Author Share Posted November 19, 2009 I initially tried NetBeans, I didn't care much for it.. so I switched back to DW for a while.. Yeah, kinda gone down that route. Trialing Adobe DWCS4, which I like. NetBeans and Eclipse are Ok. But they suffer from the same sluggishness as all Java apps. I've noticed this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roopurt18 Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 We use PhpED from NuSphere where I work. It's a lot faster than any of the other IDEs I've tried and it has the best support for debugging. It still has issues I don't like though. I wish Microsoft would make a PHP IDE; it'd be top-notch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 I like diff view in Netbeans. It's so cute, I sometimes open it just to look at it. And I've yet to see NetBeans slugging... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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