[Phpwm] Zend Studio issue

Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk
Wed Apr 9 16:40:30 BST 2008


pete graham wrote:
> Hi Lester,
> 
> I was under the impression that PHPEclipse had been superseded by the
> PDT Project, and Zend for Eclipse was built on top of that? Is this
> incorrect? Is PHPEclipse development still active?

GRR.. - top posting :(

PHPEclipse is very much still active, and has a lot of features that are still 
on the to do list of PDT. In fact it's PDT which is starting to show it's true 
colours and adding features to Zend which are not in PDT.

We were trying to get PHPEclipse adopted AS the PHP IDE for Eclipse when 
'commercial pressure' from Zend and unsubstantiated suggestions that there 
were IP problems with PHPEclipse got their proposal accepted over the top :(

We would have a MUCH better IDE now if just 10% of the effort put into 
rewriting PDT from scratch had been put into adding EXTRA features to PHPEclipse.

So the OPEN SOURCE option is PHPEclipse and the commercially hampered option 
is PDT :)

> On 09/04/2008, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
>> pete graham wrote:
>>
>>> I have been using Zend Studio 5.5 for development on Windows. Recently
>>> the interface has started flickering every so often, this is
>>> incredibly annoying when you're trying to concentrate. I don't seem to
>>> be able to find a way to stop it happening, any ideas? I think maybe
>>> its to do with my version of Java 1.6.0_05.
>>>
>>> This prompted me to install the new version: Zend Studio for Eclipse.
>>> I find it a bit clunky, maybe because I'm not used to it, for example
>>> there doesn't seem to be a nice simple find in files utility like in
>>> Zend Studio 5.5. Also most of the useful features seem to really on
>>> you having to set up a project, which is a pain when you work on lots
>>> of different projects.
>>>
>>  Of cause those of us use PHPEclipse don't have these problems :)

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