Re: zend ide & debugger

1-month commercial license ($90). Download wasn't too bad. I haven't had a chance to check out the Zend LaunchPad. The installation (Apache Linux PHP 4.04pl1+patches) took me about 30 minutes for client and server which included the wait on the license key. It took us another day to put up because there is no mention that the debugger doesn't work with the optimizer on. Zend customer service fixed that though. The IDE is pretty nice. Startup (Windows version through Samba) takes a long time and there are still some crashing issues. It's nowhere near as spry as PHPEd but we're talking about a integrated debugger. The interface is Swing-based as near as I can tell and my main gripe besides the speed is I can't use the scroll wheel. It still crashes a bunch (not sure if it's the debugger or what). I passed it off to an engineer so I can't comment further. (He's having trouble getting it to recognize the include files. Anyone have a tip?) BTW, the debugger has a browser mode, it sends off some codes in a the get string of the URL. I didn't test it. Some people like source level debuggers and I think it's a good tool especially considering all the headaches Nexidion Designer gave us a while back. Personally, the last time I used a debugger, I was making a calculator using an 80186 (the debugger was a hardware one the size of two coffee table books stacked next to each other) so obviously I never got used to them. If you come from the Boreland C/Visual Studio world, I suppose you might find the IDE essential. If my engineers ever use it, I'll get the company to spring for a license or 5. Take care, terry -- terry chay, Director of Engineering, <http://www.QIXO.com/> QIXO /kick.so/ - Integrating Many Travel Web Sites Into One W: 1.408.394-8102 F:1.408.516.9090 M: 1.408.314.0717 E-Mail: <mailto:tychay@qixo.com> ICQ: 16069322 PGP Fingerprint: 6DCF 1634 547C 935D 4912 2A44 A4A2 79AB DFFF F110