I'm using an eclipse installation I downloaded mainly for PHP development. Now I want to add a HTML visual desiger. Any suggestions? I'm an eclipse newbie.
Do you mean a WYSIWYG editor? I've never been a fan of those since most create some pretty ugly code but I found this one for eclipse: http://www.myeclipseide.com/module-htmlpages-display-pid-12.html
I have not tried it yet so I don't know if it will suffice for your needs.
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I would like to setup my Eclipse IDE (Helios 3.6.x) for Web Development and I have been trying to do this for hours now without satisfying results. I was using Eclipse with the Aptana 1.5.x Plugin until now, but it is outdated, painfully slow, has no support for XHTML 1.0 / HTML 5 and CSS 3 and it is not supported any more. Aptana 3.0.0 instead is very buggy and not ready to use.
So I try to set up Eclipse for PHP Developers to get the IDE I need, but there are a lot of problems. The PHP support is good enough: Code completion, errors are detected and highlighted detailed, auto-code-completion and documentation on key up, code outline and custom syntax highlighting. But I can not get working the same things for Javascript / JQuery, HTML and CSS files, errors are shown not or poorly. I tried Eclipse for Javascript Developers, things are are better here with HTML and Javascript (Errors, but no autocompletion), CSS still sucks.
I tried some plugins searching on the internet but nothing seems really to work and most plugins are outdated, too. Does anybody know the right and up to date plugins for this purpose? Or is it just a problem with the settings and I am not able to figure out how to configure it? How can I integrate Eclipse for PHP Developers and Eclipse for Javascript Developers into one installation?
I cannot imagine to be the first one to have this problem, this is such a standard IDE setup for Web Development.
Install Eclipse for PHP Developers (PDT) and then install aptana studio v2 as a plug-in. That way you have the autocompletion for php and all the nifty features of aptana for other web-related files such as javascript (then you can actually install support for specific libraries such as jquery).
Hi there I would kindly like to ask if NetBeans has any sort of GUI builder like the ones they offered for Java programming? Sorry for the noob Questions. If so, how do I install or use them? Thanks.
The only GUI Builder I know for PHP is Delphi for PHP, or it's new name RadPHP
for the new version there's a twenty video show some of it's features, you can look at them here
No it does not have this functionality as PHP does not have any GUI components built in. PHP is usually combined with HTML and CSS to render a view. Netbeans does not have a builder for HTML and CSS either so the answer is no.
There are some primitive examples of IDE's that includes GUI components. But Netbeans does not have a GUI editor or builder for PHP. Soon enough IDE developers will include some standart components since there seems to be a rising demand for visual web development. To counter balance Visual Studio, the "php"ians will retaliate somehow.
Now Netbeans version 7.3 beta support inbuilt gui builder for html5....
May be this will help us.
Does anyone use Visual Studio to do WordPress development? If so, how do you do it?
Programming for Wordpress is mainly coding css, php, html and js files. If you're asking about using Visual Studio for this scenario, I'm assuming you want a plugin that provides code hints for WordPress development API. Since I don't know anyone, I'm going to give you some other options.
Dreamweaver and CodeLobster come to mind as commercial applications. If you want something in the open source world, I recommend you a normal multi language IDE that supports PHP: the most important thing here is to use one that at least supports some kind of snippet functionality.
That goes from Netbeans to Aptana (which is based on Eclipse) to notepad++ with snippets functionality. The last one is an interesting solution since it's really lightweight but you will need to create your own snippets for Wordpress API functions and hooks.
I had Aptana installed in my machine in the past, but now I'm using gVim with snipmate plugin and some snippets of my own that I create when I realize I'm doing repetitive tasks.
No built-in support for VS, and I guess there won't be, but there are some options like the answer on this thread for Expressions. The other thing I've been looking at recently is WebMatrix - it looks promising in that it supports WordPress.
Did you check out VS.php ?
I've looked in vain for a decent plug-in for VS that would properly handle PHP, and have never been able to find one.
I always end up back with Netbeans.
Textmate :)
Old question, I know. But if I came looking, someone else probably will as well. :)
Couple of videos here about the plug-in
PHP Tools for Visual Studio
A wordpress plugin developer saying how he uses visual studio code with plugins to run his wordpress:
https://deliciousbrains.com/vs-code-wordpress/
He seems like he knows what he's talking about.
I am new to CakePHP framework. Does anybody have any experience with a free IDE for Uuntu which can perform code completion and most importantly ability to debug CakePHP code?
Any responses would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I would use Netbeans, and I mean, I do use Netbeans. It can intelligently work across inherited classes so works very well against CakePHP.
http://netbeans.org/
Updated:
In addition, now netbeans IDE has got a plugin for CakePHP
Sublime Text 3 is the best one in my opinion. I have used PhpStorm, Komodo, Aptana Studio 3, Notepad++ and others. All are good IDEs. But Sublime Text is giving me auto complete for CakePHP and other features too. Try it out. You will like it.
See http://mark-story.com/posts/view/code-completion-for-cakephp-in-eclipse
Netbeans works well for PHP in general, you will get full code completion in Controllers, but couldn't get proper completion in Views to work.
Same in Eclipse, however no code formatting for PHP is pretty n00by.
Debugging PHP generally sucks, I mostly use $this-log().
I suggest to try Codelobster PHP Edition
It has free debugger and special plug-in for CakePHP autocompletion.
I am attempting to setup codeigniter with eclipse but am getting project errors. From what I understand this should be as simple as creating a new project in eclipse and pointing to the root directory of codeigniter. This properly loads up the codeigniter files but eclipse reports several errors. Looking into the files, it seems like the errors are coming from html files and/or files that print html. For instance, footer.php is showing up as having an error because there is a closing tag but no opening tag. Any suggestions on how to overcome this? At this point would code completion / debugging be too much to ask for as well?
UPDATE: so from what I am gathering from the response below (and searching around on the web) is that when using codeigniter with eclipse one can only take advantage of the code completion / editing features? I also noticed that I am getting NoClassDefFoundError when attempting to open some of the .php files in the eclipse project tree for editing. Surely I must be missing something and there is a way to achieve tighter integration with codeigniter and eclipse? (i would strongly prefer to stick with eclipse as opposed to switching ides) Or maybe this is an issue with my eclipse/pdt setup?
UPDATE 2: I just downloaded the latest eclipse version (galileo) and it seemed to fix all of these issues! except for debugging of course ...
you can achieve tighter integration by initializing the Ci core classes in CI_Base constructor which will also allow you to get auto complete for core classes check out these links:
http://www.gostomski.co.uk/codeigniter/getting-full-auto-complete-with-codeigniter-in-eclipse
http://hetal.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/working-with-eclipse-and-code-igniter/
you will get lots of html errors because the html has been broken into chunks
and is not a complete document
just ignore them thats what i do (there are settings somewhere that control what errors are validated against in eclipse)
i still use the php/html/js code completion and it works fine even with the errors
if you are using svn version control, add subclipse plugin, so you can do that from within eclipse too
Try Aptana.
The last time I checked I was able to do a step by step debug on it and did not see any errors in my project. It is also built on eclipse, so there is nothing new to learn.
For what it's worth, I have been able to get debugging to work using XDebug and the Netbeans IDE. If you cannot get debugging to work in Eclipse you might give Netbeans a try - if for no other reason, to have the ability to debug should you ever need to step through your application's code...