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

[Bram Moreinis]

I like Netbeans and yes it does server sync reliably.  It does take up memory, and on the Mac side has a persistent TSR that slows shutdown if you run it and close the app.


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> On Sep 30, 2017, at 1:00 PM, Jeremy Dunn <jeremy.j.dunn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
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