Re: best free php IDE for windows?

On 8/10/20 6:50 PM, Richard wrote:

Date: Monday, August 10, 2020 19:29:00 -0300 From: Fernando Fiore <no5software@gmail.com> im using phpdesigner 8 which is not free but it seems the only to work correctly with my wampserver

Just use a good editor, you'll learn more that way. There are several out there that are good.  Eclipse with the PHP extension installed works pretty well.  with OpenJDK it gives you a Java development environment.  Eclipse is OK.  I used to use it when I worked in IT a few years back.  We were also using the commercial version of it from IBM that went with Websphere that gave us libraries specific to working with Websphere Appication Server. Those libraries didn't effect the the environment.  They were an extension just like the PHP extension. I wrote several PHP scripts in it.  You'll need to install the Java OpenJDK first.  There are a couple of other environments out there also based on Eclipse like Netbeans and Aptana.

I've used Bluefish in the past and that runs on Linux, Windows and Mac.  It's from OpenOffice.  On windows I lost scp and ssh functionality.  Maybe, by now they've figured it out.  I liked it. At one point I plopped down the money for NuSphere PHPEdit.  Loved it.  Bluefish and this are pretty equal. It's all a matter of taste.  I used to program in C# and then added ASP.NET to that.  It was a microsoft house.  an insurance company. At any rate, Microsoft's expertise is really in programming languages.  They were doing that before DOS.  I had to use Microsoft Visual Studio.  Visual Studio is a pretty nice working environment. Visual Studio Community is the free version and there is PHP Tools for Visual Studio. There are also good editors out there like Notepad++ or JEdit.  I liked both, but there is Textpad for $27.00 which is really quite nice as an editor and it handles very large files. Thanks for the lovely discussion.  I've been thinking about a project and looking at IDE's is interesting work.  It's all a matter of taste.  Visual Studio was my favorite out of all of them and that was 10 years ago.  I have a windows laptop and Visual Studio Community is loaded on that.