[UPHPU] IDE vs text editor

[Walt Haas]

CarSign wrote:
> Hi - 
> 
> I am evaluating different ways to use productivity tools where I work and I have a few questions on what others out there use.
> 
> 
> IDE vs text editor?

Some of each :-)

 > What IDE or Editor do you use?

Netbeans + Xdebug for interactive debugging of a running PHP web application

Netbeans for the ability to easily find definitions and uses of symbols 
in a large body of code

Emacs for quick edits, because it starts and runs MUCH faster than Netbeans

I've tried Eclipse a few times but never got it running as well for PHP 
as Netbeans does.

> What are the top 3 tools that you use that improve your productivity when programming php?

Besides Netbeans and Emacs:

PHPUnit + Xdebug to support test driven development

Subversion to keep track of changes

Command line tools like grep, find etc. to find things in files

-- Walt