[Hidden-tech] PHPStorm , Netbeans, or something else

[Jeremy Dunn]

Hi Charlie,

I've had very good luck with NetBeans (currently on NB 8.2) for PHP
development.  There's a reasonably good debugger, and full support for PHP.
Installing Java is not much overhead in my view: I already have several JVM
versions installed for other java applications - what's one more ?

NB has good support for various language-syntaxes (PHP5, PHP7, HTML,
javascript, css, SQL, etc); support for command-line apps as well as
web-apps; and is highly customizable.

I don't know anything about "server sync capability" in NetBeans.  We use a
source-code-control system (Git or SVN) to manage server deployments.  This
is a best-practice, to ensure that what's deployed to your servers is the
correct version of the application.

Other developers working on the same projects with me use PHPStorm, and are
very happy with it.  I tried it and found no real advantage compared to
NetBeans.

Like others, I find Eclipse more difficult to use; but certainly there are
some people who actively use it and like it.

Any of these three IDE's will work fine for modern PHP web app development.

- Jeremy

> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:01:10 -0400
> From: "Town Websites" <townwebsites at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Hidden-tech] PHPStorm , Netbeans, or something else
> To: "'Hidden-Tech Tech'" <Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>
> 
> I'm giving up on Adobe CS4 on my new travel development 
> tablet , not wanting to pay $600 annually for Adobe subscription to get it
on the new box.
> 
> What IDE is best for PHP, similar to Dreamweaver, and has a 
> good server sync capability?
> 
> I've used Netbeans and liked its PHP debugging capabilities and considered
[it] overall 'pretty good', but don't really want to install Java on my
Windows 10, unless it's to get the best IDE.  

> I have not  tried PHPStorm.

> I've struggled through a few projects where I had to use 
> Eclipse, and don't want to do that again.