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Netbeans for PHP gets an enthusiastically positive review

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Re: Netbeans for PHP gets an enthusiastically positive review

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Post by piramida »

bobbyi wrote: post #5
juliusdavies wrote: post #2

502 Bad Gateway Here's google cache: http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:JmLFJmyhjPUJ:unseen.ws/... Netbeans for PHP FTW I ran across a post a while back talking about how Netbeans now has PHP support. My first thought since I had never used it, and the name makes no bones about it’s target language, was that this must just be some gimmick aimed at Java devs to make it comfortable for them to slide over to other lan…

What "features" is vim missing that you use for php?

Heh bugged me too, I hear this statement often and it's coming from people who believe vim is only about 'i' and ':w'. vim has quite a steep learning curve, especially comparing to TextMate, but feature-wise it's all these editors and more.

Re: Netbeans for PHP gets an enthusiastically positive review

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Post by dforbin »

teilo wrote: post #7

Wake me up when it does Python. Oh, and it would need mercurial support too. Until then, I'll stick with Textmate. (Already tried Eclipse. Hated it.)

Wake up, it's supported both at least since 6.5. I've used mercurial in netbeans for several months and it works great.

Re: Netbeans for PHP gets an enthusiastically positive review

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Post by dforbin »

I stumbled onto using Netbeans for PHP a few months ago while doing some Java work. I use it almost exclusively for PHP now (I also use geany for quick edits). While it's not quite as slick as the Java support, it is a world better than anything else I've used. Also the subversion and mercurial integration kicks ass.

Hope oracle continues to support development, but if not, we have the source.

Re: Netbeans for PHP gets an enthusiastically positive review

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Post by pilif »

as long as Netbeans does not let me specify the line ending style of newly created files and does not provide me with an option to remove trailing whitespace on save, it's just not usable for my purposes.

Where I work, we have a very strict policy concerning these two things - actually it was me to formulate that policy in the first place, because having strict line endings makes the codebase look ever so cleaner.

Having clean line endings really helps with applying patches.

Not having options to fix these two aspects is just unprofessional - no matter how good the rest of the editor might be.

Re: Netbeans for PHP gets an enthusiastically positive review

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Post by pilif »

mdasen wrote: post #4

I used to be a TextMate/Vim person, but NetBeans just has some really nice abilities. It integrates so well with version control systems. The auto-complete isn't what I'd like it to be for Ruby, but seems better for other languages. It will run your program in NetBeans which makes it easy to fire up a development server without another window. It will handle lots of tasks like plugin management or rake tasks. Oh, and…

the latest beta version isn't ugly under OS X any more. My concerns about line endings and trailing whitespace (see other comment) still keep me off using this though.

Re: Netbeans for PHP gets an enthusiastically positive review

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Post by teilo »

dforbin wrote: post #12
teilo wrote: post #7

Wake me up when it does Python. Oh, and it would need mercurial support too. Until then, I'll stick with Textmate. (Already tried Eclipse. Hated it.)

Wake up, it's supported both at least since 6.5. I've used mercurial in netbeans for several months and it works great.

Ah. That's it. My Bad. I was looking at their download bundles, and just assumed that was everything. PHP and Ruby are listed, but Python is not:

http://www.netbeans.org/downloads/index.html

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