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Hey,

I'm going to download Fedora 13 when it's released. But what is a good ide to use? I need something light weight for editing. I currently use Programmers Notepad for Windows. So something along those lines. Just need the syntax highlighting for php, mysql, html, css, and that loads quickly. I like Netbeans, and will install that as well, but that's too heavy for quick edits.

Thanks for any help :)

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I like Netbeans, though I've only used it for C++ they have a PHP plugin and I absolutely love it. It's better than Dreamweaver in the fact that it completes most of the code such as the brackets and other small things that I highly appreciate and speed up my work. Might want to give it a try and see if it's right for you :)

In a pinch, it seems that Programmer's Notepad runs in Linux using wine. It has a DLL error, but seems to run. I can vouch for Notepad++ running in wine, as well.

I don't like the look of wine fonts (there may be a way to fix that and render them better), but if you are after specific apps, then that may work well enough for you.

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It's really depressing how no one has made a good PHP IDE as of yet. Anytime someone asks about what IDE he should use the answers are "X isn't too bad", "X is quite popular", "I guess you could use X if you want feature Y". I mean seriously, look at Visual Studio and ASP.Net, it's powerful, it's tighly integrated, it's great, it's the defacto IDE for anyone doing ASP.Net and it makes you happy about your work. Why can't we have something like that for PHP ? I'm seriously tired of all those Eclipse-based half-baked IDEs. /rant

Anyway, I'm a big fan of JetBrains, I use IntelliJ IDEA for my Java development, RubyMine for Ruby on Rails and PhpStorm for Php. If you like code-centric IDEs, you'll love PhpStorm, give it a try :)

Intype. Switched from Dreamweaver a couple of months ago, haven't looked back or anywhere else since. It doesn't have autocomplete, just syntax highlighting for pretty much every language, except ASP, and some other editing features some of which I haven't explored fully yet. Highly recommended.

Edit: I just realised you're going to switch to Linux, but for the time you're on Windows, do give it a shot. And maybe later, too, with Wine.

  On 17/07/2010 at 19:39, Drunken Beard said:

It's really depressing how no one has made a good PHP IDE as of yet. Anytime someone asks about what IDE he should use the answers are "X isn't too bad", "X is quite popular", "I guess you could use X if you want feature Y". I mean seriously, look at Visual Studio and ASP.Net, it's powerful, it's tighly integrated, it's great, it's the defacto IDE for anyone doing ASP.Net and it makes you happy about your work. Why can't we have something like that for PHP ? I'm seriously tired of all those Eclipse-based half-baked IDEs. /rant

Anyway, I'm a big fan of JetBrains, I use IntelliJ IDEA for my Java development, RubyMine for Ruby on Rails and PhpStorm for Php. If you like code-centric IDEs, you'll love PhpStorm, give it a try :)

I know of a really brilliant PHP IDE for Windows, phpDesigner - but there isn't a version for Linux IIRC. Netbeans has a PHP variant which is actually pretty good. It has support for PHPDoc, code completion for native and custom code, xdebug support, source control integration, code refactoring, PHPUnit testing etc. The only downside (and it's quite a big one) is that it can be so damn slow and will just eat up RAM. I don't know if that's down to it being built with Java, or if it's just because that's how Netbeans is - but it frequently freezes for a minute or two for no apparent reason. Especially when the projects are located on network drives.

PhpStorm looks pretty good, I like how it has support for Smarty templates. I might give it a go when I start my next project.

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