Re: zend studio 2.0

> Well I was hoping that article was interesting. It wasn't. I should > have known when I saw the use of homesite as an alternative. sure, it was just simple look at zend studio, but it made me wonder why the tool didn`t work on my system :) [yes - i think i know what was wrong, no need to look for bugs in zs2.0 :)] > The article had this one interesting line: > > > Like many open-source languages, the biggest problem with PHP up until > > recently has been a lack of tools. > > I guess knowledge and imagination doesn't count as tools. debugger integrated with IDE does... > I could be wrong. I've been developing websites for the last 7 years. > I still use TextPad (coupled with Perl, and UNIX/LINUX) yet I > develop on a windoze platform with cygwin installed. what i need from my editor is: - debugger - color coding - syntax check, just to spare time waiting for page showing that i forgot ')' in code > I'd suggest using Perl to improve your productivity which I assume > is the real question at hand. hmmm....let`s say i prefer php. > Will Zend make your more productive > than homesite? maybe...that`s what i want to know. > Now I may be completely wrong. It's just that I've worked with > people who use these GUI centric tools and they spend half their > time in the air, waiting for their hand to move to and from mouse to > keyboard. i don`t want to have delphi-like ide, i want just a nice debugger with basic options. > Learn Perl, not to write cgi (god forbid, even I prefer PHP for this) or > necessarily for mod_perl (very good) but just to generate code for > yourself. Perl is an excellent tool but you can't get it with a GUI. > You use text editors for which there is keyboard command for 99% > of the actions you do. If you already KNOW PHP then Perl will be > simple. i wrote few scripts in perl, i know it exists, i know i can use it if i must, but, for now, i use php. rash