March 27, 2009 at 18:43

PHPEdit - editor with full symfony support


    There are currently several possible ways to integrate symfony into editors. These methods are described in the wiki and in most cases are the addition of symfony libraries to a project for auto-substitution and partial validation. As already written on Habrahabr, in netbeans 7.0 it is planned to add full support for this framework. True, they forgot to tell the developers of another project - PHPEdit . On March 20, 2009, version 3.2.0 of the mentioned editor was released, in which symfony support was added as an extension.

    You can briefly familiarize yourself with the capabilities of the editor by looking at the official screencast .

    Opportunities (they are pluses):



    • Code highlighting
    • Code browser
    • Snippets for everything
    • Unicode support (and Cyrillic, e.g. cp1251)
    • CVS, SVN
    • Work with the base
    • Access, FTP update
    • Code formatter
    • Open one-click method or function declaration
    • Symfony project generator
    • symfony tasks with the settings list
    • Quickly switch between controller and view
    • Smart auto-completion (for example, variables declared in the controller are passed to the view)
    • Tips
    • Debugger for symfony without additional settings
    • Fast environment switching (prod, dev, test)
    • Support PHPUnit, PHP Documenter, todo


    disadvantages


    • Shareware (179 euros for the editor + 79 for symfony. For educational purposes it is possible to get for free)
    • System requirements (512 MB worked fine, but did not fly. Lighter than Zend Studio for Eclipse, but heavier than a regular non-IDE editor)
    • Lack of flexibility in the code formatter (loses to Zend Formatter), unintuitive settings menu
    • I did not find the option to quickly open the file (maybe somewhere)
    • The lack of versions for Linux and MacOS (promised to be done by the end of 2008)


    In general, it’s a good solution for symfony projects. I have not tried a test drive on reasonable projects with a lot of code and include'ov, but there is a suspicion that it will also work great. The editor lacks the flexibility that Zend Studio for Eclipse, PDT, netbeans and others have, but he more than pays for it with good integration with symfony. I will definitely buy a license when a version for Linux appears.

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