Re[2]: [PHP] PHP editor

Hello Lowell, Thursday, April 15, 2004, 4:00:03 PM, you wrote: LA> I just installed Zend Studio because I was able to buy it through Adobe LA> at a discount when upgrading GoLive. I've been comfortable working in LA> the source editor of GoLive, and the new version has improved support LA> for PHP, but I assumed moving to Zend Studio would improve my LA> efficiency. This thread makes me wonder if I should switch or stay with LA> the simple workflow I'm used to. Opinions? Zend Studio endorsements? Is LA> it worth the time to learn to use? I spend around 8 to 10 hours a day inside of Zend Studio (it's open behind this email window as I type) and I couldn't live without it now. I'm not going to list all of it's good points, there are just too many - but I personally love the full function insight and auto-complete. Not just for PHP functions, but for your own too - works perfectly across classes, etc. Same goes for variable completion. The code Profiler and Debugger are a god-send as well, being able to step through the code of a page, inserting break points, adding variable watches and modifying the results *on the fly* is brilliant. I have a few issues with it from a user-interface level though - it would be useful to have bookmarks (that can be saved with your code), the drop-down menus sometimes flicker or just roll-up instantly - this I feel is a side-effect of the Java runtime. You also need a monster PC for it to run happily (read: quickly). I'm using it on a P4 3GHz. For the HTML side of things it is useless, so I have Homesite 5 open alongside it nearly all of the time, but then I rarely mix my PHP code with raw HTML anyway, so this isn't a big issue for me. Anyway, just my observations. -- Best regards, Richard Davey http://www.phpcommunity.org/wiki/296.html