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Justin
Justin

Reputation: 2530

Dreamweaver and PHP (Alternatives)

I know there has been quite a few comments on this topic.

I have tested quite a few IDE's for PHP, I have liked phpDesigner 7, which is great for PHP... but I like the way Dreamweaver has the live rendered view for quick layouts and design.

It could be done by rendering to the browser and using firebug, but I really like using the dreamweaver option. My fault in dreamweaver is i'm sure a lot of people having the same problem. Intellisense, or Syntax support. You get the basic of 2500 php tags, but I would like it to be more intuitive. such as dynamic variables, perhaps code completion and things of this nature.

I have been searching and testing, many many... is there anything that can compare or take-over the dreamweaver? Or even an extension that makes PHP code much better in DW? I have DWCS4 currently, I hope it gets fixed if they come out with CS5.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2321

Answers (8)

BeRocket
BeRocket

Reputation: 655

I didn't find what OS are you using. Under Linux I think best is Geany. It is much faster than Aptana and Netbeans. I'm using it 2 years already. Before I stop my choice on Geany I check almost all other IDE's for PHP. Half of them have noising bugs and other half working slow enough to start searching another IDE. Geany is fast, no bugs and have all most needed plugins. Sry for my bad English =)

Geany download: http://www.geany.org/Download/Releases

Help for windows if needed: http://www.geany.org/Support/RunningOnWindows

Upvotes: 0

Virgil
Virgil

Reputation: 3072

Try CS5 actually, it fixes the issues you had with CS4, and it improves the live view a lot.

Upvotes: 0

Miroslav Popovic
Miroslav Popovic

Reputation: 12128

Microsoft's Expression Web also supports PHP development. I never used it for PHP development so I can't tell what it feels like. There's also one killer feature in Expression Web no matter what kind of web do you develop... SuperPreview.

You can download the trial here.

Upvotes: 0

Steven Mercatante
Steven Mercatante

Reputation: 25295

I use Zend Studio 7.1. I've tried Aptana and Netbeans, but I always go back to Studio (I've just become so accustomed to some of Studio's features that I can't live without them). That being said, all 3 are good programs (leaps and bounds better than Dreamweaver), and you should try each one to see what fits best.

Upvotes: 0

Tyler Smith
Tyler Smith

Reputation: 727

I was in the same boat and then I decided to try http://netbeans.org/features/php/. It changed my life. I started it up the first time, and haven't opened DreamWeaver since.

Upvotes: 0

Ondra Žižka
Ondra Žižka

Reputation: 46796

NetBeans PHP support is very good.

Upvotes: 0

Rowan
Rowan

Reputation: 5727

Try Aptana Studio, I use it every day as part of my job (even though I have an install of Dreamweaver). It may be difficult to get used to at first and it's built on eclipse so it's not quite as crisp as some other IDE's but I wouldn't turn back now!

One of the major things that interested me was advanced code hinting (including hinting for functions and classes defined in your source code).

Upvotes: 2

Chris J
Chris J

Reputation: 9252

I actually kind of like Eclipse's php support.

Upvotes: 0

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