“What? A PHP IDE with Vim? Are you insane?”Īm I? It’s definitely possible to make a very powerful IDE with Vim: you need to know what plugins to install and what are their purposes. I can see you spitting your cereals in front of you computer.

If anyone have an opinion, feel free to leave a comment.If you want to build a complete Mouseless Development Environment, you might be interested by this book. I didn’t go into depths of how and why, but I thought I’d rather give my view on the matter. It has only one flaw – it’s not free, it costs $149 for corporate license and $49, but in my opinion, it worths more than that.Īptana Studio is the third tool that I’d like to mention, although I haven’t used it, I hear its great. Work with huge amount of files (10000+) is quite pleasant as nobody would expect. And not only that – it has the best Javascript IDE I have ever seen already included. On all includes, no matter how deep, auto completion works flawlessly. I’ve been using it for a week now, and as somewhat experienced user, I find it much better than Eclipse. On the other hand there’s new player in IDE world on Linux, it’s the PhpStorm (currently in version 1.0). To make a long story short – anything you wish you can find in software that has been developing for more than 6 years now (I really couldn’t find the exact date), and that overcomed all the “child diseases”. If maybe something isn’t included in package, it can be downloaded / installed through included feature “Install new software”. It has almost everything you can imagine and could look for in IDE. Personally, on Linux platform I used Eclipse for PHP, as primary IDE.

* JavaScript support with at least code highlight and code completion * Some sort of “quick view” that will list all classes, methods, constants(,…) in a file 😀Īs any good IDE, it should contain at least the following features: There are only few compared to other platforms.įirst of all, I will only write about the tools that i use / have used, so that you can’t be upset if I haven’t mentioned great tool that you use. There are many tools available for developing web applications, but if you use Linux, the situation is dramatically changed.

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