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Reputation: 5262

Installing Aptana and Eclipse PDT - what should be main and what as a plugin

I would like to use an IDE for PHP Development using Zend framework & jQuery. I decided to use Aptana Studio. There is no PHP support in [Studio 2][2], so I have to use Eclipse PDT.

My question is should I install Eclipse PDT first and the use Aptana as plugin? or install Aptana Studio and then install Eclipse PDT as a plugin? What are pros & cons of each method if any?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5679

Answers (5)

Lalith Manage
Lalith Manage

Reputation: 1

No more in beta stage. 3.6.1 is available. http://www.aptana.com/products/studio3/download.html

Upvotes: 0

ulyssey
ulyssey

Reputation: 11

here a step by step tutorial to install Eclipse PHP with aptana plugin or aptana studio with pdt plugin: http://aptanaandpdt.blogspot.com

Upvotes: 1

spider
spider

Reputation: 1178

Aptana 3.0, still in beta, has support for PHP too (and Ruby on Rails and Python) http://aptana.org/products/studio3

Upvotes: 0

Knowledge Craving
Knowledge Craving

Reputation: 7993

Install the Eclipse PDT first & use Aptana Studio as a plugin. You will benefit immensely from this, as there is very good support of auto-information for each & every method & class / object, along with its properties. One thing you need to take care is that you must need to create a Project for each & every work / project, otherwise it (support for auto-information feature) will not work, because Eclipse will search for the main definitions of classes.

This good information support is not that much prevalent in Aptana Studio if you install it. So it's best to use it as a plugin with Eclipse PDT.

Also you will be able to upload files & use the File Manager with Eclipse PDT, when you have installed the Aptana Studio as a plugin. Eclipse PDT also has a nice debugging feature, along with other useful features (which I've not yet used).

Hope it helps.

Upvotes: 1

Gatman
Gatman

Reputation: 594

1 - Eclipse 2 - Aptana as plugin

As Aptana2 did not support php .... i thick will be better to use it as plugin

Upvotes: 0

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