Basic question, newbie PHP coder

steve wrote:

 > "Eli6" wrote:
  > > Hello Gurus,
  > > Can you recommend a decent PHP editor that has the IntelliSense
  > > feature? It=92s a great help for newbies I think. It used to help
  > > me
  > > heaps in Visual Studio.
  > > Kind regards.
 >=20
 > I don=92t know about IntelliSense, but if you are talking about code
 > completion, function/variable prompts, etc. then I highly recommend
 > Zend IDE. I have used it for almost a year and am very happy with it=
..
 > Some say it is slow, but if one turns off the showing of warning
 > notices (assuming you have a lot of them in the code), then the
 > response is mighty fast.

I'd second the vote for Zend. Apparantly you can use it free for person=
al
use. Doesn't apply to me as I use it to build websites commercially... =
but
I think it was worth every cent. I wouldn't complain if it was cheaper
though

--=20
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Chris Hope wrote:

steve wrote: > "Eli6" wrote: > > Hello Gurus, > > Can you recommend a decent PHP editor that has the IntelliSense > > feature? It=92s a great help for newbies I think. It used to help > > me > > heaps in Visual Studio. > > Kind regards. >=20 > I don=92t know about IntelliSense, but if you are talking about code > completion, function/variable prompts, etc. then I highly recommend > Zend IDE. I have used it for almost a year and am very happy with it= .. > Some say it is slow, but if one turns off the showing of warning > notices (assuming you have a lot of them in the code), then the > response is mighty fast. I'd second the vote for Zend. Apparantly you can use it free for person= al use. Doesn't apply to me as I use it to build websites commercially... = but I think it was worth every cent. I wouldn't complain if it was cheaper though --=20 Chris Hope - The Electric Toolbox - http://www.electrictoolbox.com/

There is also Nusphere, which is more expensive. Also Zend includes I believe one year of free upgrades (unlike NS).
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Eli, try using PHPEdit, the best free IDE that I can think of. There
was another on sourceforge, I can't recall the name. But that one
should do.
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steve wrote:

 > "Chris Hope" wrote:
  > > steve wrote:
  > >=20
   > > > "Eli6" wrote:
   > > > > Hello Gurus,
   > > > > Can you recommend a decent PHP editor that has the
 > IntelliSense
   > > > > feature? It=3D92s a great help for newbies I think. It used t=
o
 > help
   > > > > me
   > > > > heaps in Visual Studio.
   > > > > Kind regards.
   > > >=3D20
   > > > I don=3D92t know about IntelliSense, but if you are talking abou=
t
 > code
   > > > completion, function/variable prompts, etc. then I highly
 > recommend
   > > > Zend IDE. I have used it for almost a year and am very happy
 > with
  > > it=3D
  > > ..
   > > > Some say it is slow, but if one turns off the showing of warning=

   > > > notices (assuming you have a lot of them in the code), then the
   > > > response is mighty fast.
  > >=20
  > > I=92d second the vote for Zend. Apparantly you can use it free for=

  > > person=3D
  > > al
  > > use. Doesn=92t apply to me as I use it to build websites
  > > commercially... =3D
  > > but
  > > I think it was worth every cent. I wouldn=92t complain if it was
  > > cheaper
  > > though
  > >=20
  > > --=3D20
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 >=20
 > There is also Nusphere, which is more expensive. Also Zend includes =
I
 > believe one year of free upgrades (unlike NS).

It does. I'm a few months past the year now though so I have to pay if =
I
want to upgrade to the most recent version.

--=20
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 > I'd second the vote for Zend. Apparantly you can use it free for personal
 > use. Doesn't apply to me as I use it to build websites commercially... but
 > I think it was worth every cent. I wouldn't complain if it was cheaper
 > though

But I`ve visited <a rel="nofollow" style='text-decoration: none;' href="http://www.zend.com" target="_blank">www.zend.com</a> and found only 21 days free trial version of
Zend Studio 3.5. I didn`t noticed any free non-comerciall version - does it
concern any prior version?

Rafal
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Rafal wrote:

  >> I'd second the vote for Zend. Apparantly you can use it free for personal
  >> use. Doesn't apply to me as I use it to build websites commercially...
  >> but I think it was worth every cent. I wouldn't complain if it was
  >> cheaper though
 >
 > But I`ve visited <a rel="nofollow" style='text-decoration: none;' href="http://www.zend.com" target="_blank">www.zend.com</a> and found only 21 days free trial version of
 > Zend Studio 3.5. I didn`t noticed any free non-comerciall version - does
 > it concern any prior version?

I've no idea myself. I paid for a copy becuase I found it so useful. It's
only recently I've heard about the free-for-personal-use option from other
people in newsgroups.

--
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Eli wrote:
 > Hello Gurus,
 > Can you recommend a decent PHP editor that has the IntelliSense
 > feature? It's a great help for newbies I think. It used to help me
 > heaps in Visual Studio.
 > Kind regards.

Get PHPEdit from <a rel="nofollow" style='text-decoration: none;' href="http://www.waterproof.fr" target="_blank">www.waterproof.fr</a>
The French make not only great wines apparantly. A personal license is FREE,
you will have to send Sebastien a motivated request for it though. And a
commercial licens is still cheaper than Zend too I believe.

It beats the #$#%@ out of Zend's Javabased IDE if you ask me.
HTH
Pjotr
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Heaps of thanks to all of you guys, I'll flip thru your suggestions.
I later submit a question about compiling the PHP code and was hoping
to see your suggestions gurus for this as well.
Kind regards,
Eli
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Eli wrote:
 > Hello Gurus,
 > Can you recommend a decent PHP editor that has the IntelliSense
 > feature? It's a great help for newbies I think. It used to help me
 > heaps in Visual Studio.
 > Kind regards.

I recommend ZendIDE. It have so many great fetures (full PHP5 support,
debugger, code analyser...).

Also, there is Zend Small Business Program that will give you:
- Zend Studio 3.5
- Zend PerformanceSuite
- Zend SafeGuard

for 400USD (with support and upgrade) or for 249USD (withoud support and
upgrade).

More details about Zend SBP on <a rel="nofollow" style='text-decoration: none;' href="http://www.zend.com" target="_blank">www.zend.com</a>
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