I have become a fan of PDT, one of the 2 PHP Eclipse IDE’s (the other is PHPEclipse).
I believe it is supported by Zend and they have derived Zend Studio for Eclipse from it (thus it contains many of the features). Maybe the only feature I’m missing is the code formatter for PHP found in Zend Studio for Eclipse (which formats your code to match, for example, the Zend Framework coding standard).
Anyway, I’ve added these addons which make it even more useful:
- JSEclipse: JavaScript syntax highlighting and code completion.
Add as remote site: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/jseclipse/autoinstall/site.xml - Subclipse: Subversion (SVN) client.
Add as remote site: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.4.x - HTML Tidy: well known (x)HTML cleanup.
Download and add as a local site: http://eclipsetidy.sourceforge.net/
Preferences (Window – Preferences) I have adjusted:
- Search for encoding and set everything to UTF-8.
- Search for delimiter and set everything to Unix.
- My favorite: go to PHP – Editor – Save Actions and select Remove trailing whitespace (it does not search for this).
The only downside: Eclipse is written in Java.