NYCPHP Meetup

[Brian O'Connor]

Have you tried aptana? It was built for ror, but they took over pydev
and have a php plugin as well.  I just started using it and its pretty
decent (not sure about the code folding).

On 2/26/10, Gary Mort <garyamort at gmail.com> wrote:
> Too many little consoles..  :-)
>
> Which is the main item which has put me off.
>
> Written in Java and needing to know Java to do a lot of extending of
> Eclipse[though with PDT going to a markup language for rules, I might be
> able to do quite a bit there]
>
> Oddities with network connections:  I went through half a dozen install
> processes, and each one broke irrepairably at some point.
>
> Too many versions: which one to use?
>
> PHP code folding inadequacies:  just doesn't fold everything the other IDE's
> I've used can.
>
> Source Class browsing failures:  I've yet to see a function like Ultraedit
> where an entire project of files is kept up to date for the class/function
> browsers.  OTOH you can emulate all this functionality if you document your
> code as it will pick up documentation in standard formats.  So here the
> "downside" is a matter of getting really good at commenting code that should
> be commented anyway!
>
> My setup:
>
> I ended up with the all in one PDT installer. Then I added in the Bzr
> plugins for source code repositories.  Then I REMOVED Mylin and installed
> the latest version of Mylin....
> Then I installed the Mylin/Eclipse Redmine plugin[and installed the server
> side 2.6 plugin on my server].  Finally, the one item that caused weird
> problems when I installed originally, I loaded the RSE plugins[Remote Server
> Environment].  Note: the local one caused me to be unable to open local PHP
> files, so the 3rd time around I specifically excluded that one.
>
> I added my Redmine server to the task servers[small nit here: under the
> current setup, I cannot get a list of /all/ issues.  I have to add project
> by project, and sub project by sub project.  Gotta find out why and fix
> that]
>
> Now, outside the "project" concept as I was debugging code that was offsite,
> then for the Remote Servers I added my FTP and SFTP servers and was able to
> browse those repositories online and open the files directly.  [Note: small
> nit here, a LOT of the tools I wanted are kind of hidden.  I had to keep
> going to Window->ShowView->Other to get a long list of windows to find a lot
> of these things.
>
>
> Ok, so with all this setup, I had 3 features to change.  So I opened the
> first task in my project in eclipse, checked the spec, hit activate, and
> then hunted around for the files on the server.  Finally found the oddball
> layout and located the 2 PHP files that needed minor changes to.  Updated
> and tested them.  Then when I was done, I went back to the task and used the
> feature I am now in love with: there will be a tab to "Add Context".....
> click on that and you have a list of all open files[or is it files you have
> opened?]..   Clicked save and I believe it generates an XML file of all the
> file paths/files and zips them up, then it gets attached to the issue.  Next
> I close the issue.
>
> So NEXT time I have to make a small change, I can go back to this issue and
> open the context from Eclipse and it will automatically open the files from
> the FTP server for me.
>
> Second feature, again changed 2 files.  This time I had to dig through a
> dozen files to find the area to change and had left them open.  As an
> experiment, I went to add context and sure enough, lots of stuff I did not
> change was there.  But I could right click and remove items from the context
> that were not relevant, and then save them.
>
> Soo... that one feature has me sold.  It was quick and easy and I will live
> with all the other little annoyances for now to be able to easily record
> which files were changed directly into my project management tool AND be
> able to open them later[it's easy to add changed files by adding an issue
> keyword to the files and checking into version control - Bazaar can check
> files for keywords in the commits and files and update the issue id number
> as needed - but that is one way communication, wheras this two way
> communication is great!]
>

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Brian O'Connor