You might want to check out NetBeans for PHP - It's very nice open source IDE Best regards, __ Raymond Irving ________________________________ From: Daevid Vincent <daevid@xxxxxxxxxx> To: PHP General <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thu, November 12, 2009 7:55:56 PM Subject: is Aptana taking a crap on the face of PHP? Whoa, am I reading this right that Aptana is basically moving away from PHP?? https://aptanastudio.tenderapp.com/discussions/suggestions/58-aptana-20 https://aptanastudio.tenderapp.com/discussions/questions/75-aptana-no-longer -has-php http://www.aptana.org/php It sounds like they put in the old PHP 1.1 plug-in just to shut the angry mob up, but I don't get the feeling they plan to do any further PHP development. That is a real shame as Zend Studio NEEDS competition. I guess PDT (http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/) may end up benefiting from this, but I suspect it will be some time to come before the two projects are merged properly. Well, I'll keep my fingers crossed that this *IS* the best solution for the long term. In the mean time, I can't help but feel a piece of the PHP community just "died"... well, maybe "moved away" is more accurate. I do find it a little ironic as I just started a new project on Monday and was fully expecting to develop it all using Aptana. Guess I'll stick with 1.5 for now (warts and all). How is PDT? I tried to install it with Aptana 1.5 and it failed: Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found. Software being installed: PDT Runtime Feature 2.0.0.v20090315-1850 (org.eclipse.php.feature.group 2.0.0.v20090315-1850) Missing requirement: PDT Runtime Feature 2.0.0.v20090315-1850 (org.eclipse.php.feature.group 2.0.0.v20090315-1850) requires 'org.eclipse.dltk.core.feature.group [1.0.0,2.0.0)' but it could not be found ooops, found my own solution to that one: https://aptanastudio.tenderapp.com/discussions/problems/328-aptana-php-platf orm-and-pdt-not-available https://aptanastudio.tenderapp.com/faqs/third-party-plugins/aptana-studio-an d-php-development-tools First impressions: * The amazing color coding that Aptana had for PHP (down to individual left and right braces even!) is gone!!! * The PHP code formatter is also gone!! * Code assist and completion is gone too for any functions NOT on the current page. It doesn't even know the name of variables WITHIN a function! THIS F'ING BLOWS. Am I not doing something right? I mean, what the hell does PDT do actually then? It can't be a v2.1 and this much pure failure can it?
