PHP IDE for Linux

Jason Slaughter jason-2F8E0OLjuh154TAoqtyWWQ at public.gmane.org
Sat Nov 22 20:31:04 UTC 2003


I've been trying to find the perfect IDE for PHP programming on Linux, 
but so far I've been coming up short. Maybe I have unrealistic 
requirements, but I thought I should ask here to see if the TLUG has 
any insight.

Up until now I've been doing all of my PHP programming in gvim. I love 
vi, and up until now gvim has done everything I want. However I've 
started working on more advanced PHP projects, and I'm finding myself 
in desperate need of some of the features that an IDE. Mostly I need a 
step-through debugger, but things like code completion and file 
management are nice too.

Ideally I'd like to find the following:
- IDE with support for PHP
- Runs on Linux
- step-through debugging (using dbg perhaps?)
- "vim" compatible editor (this is the hard one :) )

I would settle for just using gvim with a step-through PHP debugger, 
but so far I haven't been able to find a way to do this. I looked at 
Quanta, but its debugger (dbg) has been purchased by the makers of 
PHPEd and it's now an IDE without a debugger. So I tried NuSphere's 
PHPEd and it seems pretty good but $300 US is a little steep (though 
not unreasonable), and of course it doesn't support vi cursor 
controls/etc. ;)

So, does my Perfect PHP IDE(tm) exist or not? :)

Jason

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