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Just starting to look into this myself as Dreamweaver doesn't really cut it with more complicated systems like Xoops.
Anyone else have good experiences with an IDE?
I've just started looking at them, so far have briefly tried PDT (PHP Eclipse) which seems good so far.. liked being able to click a function name and see where it was declared. Quickly looked at Zend Studio and the debugging and code hints are really good.
I would like a system that works with the code on the server or tests against the code on the server with a temporary file (bit like preview in browser in Dreamweaver), steps through the code showing debug and browser window results (Zend does this), shows the function code on mouse-over the name (PDT does this). One that can cope with Smarty and PHP would be good as well.
If anyone is using text editors to work with XOOPS I would suggest looking at this stuff.. no more pasting echo or print_r() statements everywhere to see where the code is failing or what its outputting.
I'm new to IDEs so still finding my feet with them!
