After writing some initial lines
about ZDE 4 beta in my language, I considered it being a good idea to do it in English as well.
I used
Zend Development Environment 4.0.0 beta + Zend Studio Server for 20+ days now and I have to say I'm very satisfied. I tried many IDEs before, including the
previous versions of ZDE,
Eclipse + Xored Trustudio,
Eclipse + phpEclipse,
NuSphere PhpEd,
PHPEdit and many others, and actually ZDE 4 is what I like the best. I run it in WinXP.
pros:
- code completion scans for classes inside the project;
very useful when using external tools like
WACT and
PEAR
- multiple directories can be added to projects
- inspector displays classes in a tree
- installs almost silently
- debug works right after installing (a reboot was needed?)
- project data is stored in a single small XML file for each project
cons:
- no
SVN support (although it supports CVS afaik)
- cannot ignore directories under the project root dirs: compiled templates, SVN & CVS directories get processed as well (scanning for classes - code completion)
- doesn't deal with the environment while Trustudio does; ZDE doesn't scan files for classes in my include_path set in php.ini -> I have to import the same include directories (PEAR, WACT) to each project - but at least ZDE doesn't copy anything, just remembers the path
- made me some headache; modified apache's httpd.conf (added PHPIniDir "C:/php", while this directory didn't exist at all (among other lines? dunno))
- editor: auto-indenting is nice, auto code formatting works fine, but auto-indenting creates lots of unnecessary spaces in empty lines
I plan to buy it. Others
are impressed as well.
