[Phpwm] Zend Studio issue

[Mike Tipping]

Anyone for Delphi PHP?


On 9/4/08 16:40, "Lester Caine" <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> 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 I was under the impression that PHPEclipse had been superseded by the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 :)