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[Jon Baer]

Not sure what OS but ... It may or may not work for you, but going  
the reverse route of lightweight editors and FirePHP is a good free  
simple route.  Originally I felt the same that the more tools in an  
IDE the better and was excited about the idea of a DB query tool in  
the IDE but things really slow down after that.

A new OS X editor for PHP that is pretty nice is Coda.  No Windows  
clone yet.

Linkage
http://www.firephp.org/Reference/Documentation/Introduction.htm
http://www.panic.com/coda/

Other lightweights for Win ...
http://www.e-texteditor.com
http://intype.info

It would be nice to see a "How I Work" section on nyphp.org for IDE  
recommendations.  I feel the topic comes up alot w/ good pros and cons.

- Jon

On May 25, 2007, at 10:04 AM, David Krings wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Since years I am using Luckasoft's EnginSite PHP Editor as IDE. It  
> works well and has many features that more expensive IDEs offer.  
> There is one major drawback to this IDE: the implementation of the  
> debugger (PHP dbg) is....well....goofy. If I want to debug a series  
> of scripts I have to automatically set a breakpoint at the  
> beginning of each script. So when I start at login and want to  
> debug something 6 script files down, I have to stop and continue  
> six times before I get to the real breakpoint where I want to look  
> at things. That is so utterly annoying and Luckasoft is kinda  
> unresponsive to this issue that I set out to look for another IDE.  
> I really like EnginSite PHP, but when adding a bunch of echos for  
> debugging is faster than using a debugger, something's not right.
>
> I looked so far at Zend, but don't get the GUI. It seems to be  
> overly complicated. I then tried some of these Eclipse based  
> hodgepodges, but they lack a lot of features if I ever can get them  
> to run. And I tried NuSphere PHPEd. I like it a lot and consider  
> the Pro version, but I and my wallet can't get over the sticker  
> shock of 299$. I'm not saying the app isn't worth that, but for a  
> hobbyist with a budget of about 0$ that is a bit pricey.
>
> So, the question of the day is: Which other IDEs do you recommend  
> that I look at?
>
> Any pointers are welcome.
>
>
> David
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