Re: Freeware PHP Ides

Hi jeremy, > > By the way, I could find some nice PHP editors for Windows (like > > HTML-Kit) but I could not find a good editor for Linux. Anyone can > > point me to the right direction? > > http://www.vim.org/ (you probably already have it installed on > your > system.) I already use Vim for Linux and for Windows also, but I'd like some features like context-sensitive help for PHP keywords and functions, which I guess are possible with Vim but I could not find yet. I'd also like a more "user-friendly" PHP editor for Linux, because Vim is too difficult for ex-Windows programmers to learn. > > Another question: There is any tool that can debug a PHP script? > > That is, stop at breakponts, run the script line by line, and > > inspect the value of variables while it is run? This is the big > > argument I cannot question when someone tell me I should use ASP and > > InterDev instead... :-( > > the PHP interpreter will tell you on which line numbers and files you > are having problems. PHP is also very loosly typed, and therefor it > is nearly impossible to have an un-debugable program. I have no problems with debuging PHP scripts, but InterDev step-by-step debuging of ASP scripts is a feature many times I face when some customer is choosing between PHP and ASP, and many times that feature makes him choose ASP. A step-by-step debugger would also be very nice to debug class libraries, when you have more logic and less HTML. > I'm not saying you are, but if you are having that much difficulty > with PHP, I would step back and try and learn it a little better. > Grab a book or check out http://www.php.net/manual/ I am not woried about my difficulties, but with the problems getting a development team used to Windows tools to get productive with PHP on Windows and Linux. It's getting harder and harder to find the old-styule programmer, who can write, understand and debug code without help of a Visual IDE. And, despite the fact that a Visual IDE adds too few to Internet Development, customers are used to evaluate Visual IDEs and think they are better, a priori, than command-line tools. []s, Fernando Lozano