Basic question, newbie PHP coder

Hello Gurus,
Can you recommend a decent PHP editor that has the IntelliSense
feature? It's a great help for newbies I think. It used to help me
heaps in Visual Studio.
Kind regards.

"Eli6" wrote:
> Hello Gurus,
> Can you recommend a decent PHP editor that has the IntelliSense
> feature? It’s a great help for newbies I think. It used to help
> me
> heaps in Visual Studio.
> Kind regards.

I don’t know about IntelliSense, but if you are talking about code
completion, function/variable prompts, etc. then I highly recommend
Zend IDE. I have used it for almost a year and am very happy with it.
Some say it is slow, but if one turns off the showing of warning
notices (assuming you have a lot of them in the code), then the
response is mighty fast.

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steve wrote:

> "Eli6" wrote:
> > Hello Gurus,
> > Can you recommend a decent PHP editor that has the IntelliSense
> > feature? It’s a great help for newbies I think. It used to help
> > me
> > heaps in Visual Studio.
> > Kind regards.
>
> I don’t know about IntelliSense, but if you are talking about code
> completion, function/variable prompts, etc. then I highly recommend
> Zend IDE. I have used it for almost a year and am very happy with it..
> Some say it is slow, but if one turns off the showing of warning
> notices (assuming you have a lot of them in the code), then the
> response is mighty fast.

I'd second the vote for Zend. Apparantly you can use it free for personal
use. Doesn't apply to me as I use it to build websites commercially... but
I think it was worth every cent. I wouldn't complain if it was cheaper
though :)

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"Chris Hope" wrote:
> steve wrote:
>
> > "Eli6" wrote:
> > > Hello Gurus,
> > > Can you recommend a decent PHP editor that has the
IntelliSense
> > > feature? It=92s a great help for newbies I think. It used to
help
> > > me
> > > heaps in Visual Studio.
> > > Kind regards.
> >=20
> > I don=92t know about IntelliSense, but if you are talking about
code
> > completion, function/variable prompts, etc. then I highly
recommend
> > Zend IDE. I have used it for almost a year and am very happy
with
> it=
> ..
> > Some say it is slow, but if one turns off the showing of warning
> > notices (assuming you have a lot of them in the code), then the
> > response is mighty fast.
>
> I’d second the vote for Zend. Apparantly you can use it free for
> person=
> al
> use. Doesn’t apply to me as I use it to build websites
> commercially... =
> but
> I think it was worth every cent. I wouldn’t complain if it was
> cheaper
> though
>
> --=20
> Chris Hope - The Electric Toolbox - http://www.electrictoolbox.com/

There is also Nusphere, which is more expensive. Also Zend includes I
believe one year of free upgrades (unlike NS).

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steve wrote:

> "Chris Hope" wrote:
> > steve wrote:
> >
> > > "Eli6" wrote:
> > > > Hello Gurus,
> > > > Can you recommend a decent PHP editor that has the
> IntelliSense
> > > > feature? It=92s a great help for newbies I think. It used to
> help
> > > > me
> > > > heaps in Visual Studio.
> > > > Kind regards.
> > >=20
> > > I don=92t know about IntelliSense, but if you are talking about
> code
> > > completion, function/variable prompts, etc. then I highly
> recommend
> > > Zend IDE. I have used it for almost a year and am very happy
> with
> > it=
> > ..
> > > Some say it is slow, but if one turns off the showing of warning
> > > notices (assuming you have a lot of them in the code), then the
> > > response is mighty fast.
> >
> > I’d second the vote for Zend. Apparantly you can use it free for
> > person=
> > al
> > use. Doesn’t apply to me as I use it to build websites
> > commercially... =
> > but
> > I think it was worth every cent. I wouldn’t complain if it was
> > cheaper
> > though
> >
> > --=20
> > Chris Hope - The Electric Toolbox - http://www.electrictoolbox.com/
>
> There is also Nusphere, which is more expensive. Also Zend includes I
> believe one year of free upgrades (unlike NS).

It does. I'm a few months past the year now though so I have to pay if I
want to upgrade to the most recent version.

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Rafal wrote:

>> I'd second the vote for Zend. Apparantly you can use it free for personal
>> use. Doesn't apply to me as I use it to build websites commercially...
>> but I think it was worth every cent. I wouldn't complain if it was
>> cheaper though :)
>
> But I`ve visited www.zend.com and found only 21 days free trial version of
> Zend Studio 3.5. I didn`t noticed any free non-comerciall version - does
> it concern any prior version?

I've no idea myself. I paid for a copy becuase I found it so useful. It's
only recently I've heard about the free-for-personal-use option from other
people in newsgroups.

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> I'd second the vote for Zend. Apparantly you can use it free for personal
> use. Doesn't apply to me as I use it to build websites commercially... but
> I think it was worth every cent. I wouldn't complain if it was cheaper
> though :)

But I`ve visited www.zend.com and found only 21 days free trial version of
Zend Studio 3.5. I didn`t noticed any free non-comerciall version - does it
concern any prior version?

Rafal

Eli, try using PHPEdit, the best free IDE that I can think of. There
was another on sourceforge, I can't recall the name. But that one
should do.

Eli wrote:
> Hello Gurus,
> Can you recommend a decent PHP editor that has the IntelliSense
> feature? It's a great help for newbies I think. It used to help me
> heaps in Visual Studio.
> Kind regards.

Get PHPEdit from www.waterproof.fr
The French make not only great wines apparantly. A personal license is FREE,
you will have to send Sebastien a motivated request for it though. And a
commercial licens is still cheaper than Zend too I believe.

It beats the #$#%@ out of Zend's Javabased IDE if you ask me.
HTH
Pjotr

Heaps of thanks to all of you guys, I'll flip thru your suggestions.
I later submit a question about compiling the PHP code and was hoping
to see your suggestions gurus for this as well.
Kind regards,
Eli