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2levelsabove
03-06-2008, 12:53 PM
The design preview only works if a project is loaded ?

Not on each individual file as dreamweaver ?


Thanks
bpat1434
03-09-2008, 12:36 AM
You can't create "individual" files in the new Zend Studio :( The way 90% of the functionality works (code-hinting, auto-complete, etc.) only if you build the project (which seems to take a lot of time). So the design preview should only work if you've actually built the file/project.

It's an unfortunate circumstance for Zend, but it's somewhat better than 5.5.0....
2levelsabove
03-13-2008, 12:49 PM
yeah it is pretty cool .
kardiostep
03-31-2008, 09:17 AM
are there any reasonable competition programmes to Zend? Dreamweaver can't be a competition, it's not for coding..
bpat1434
03-31-2008, 09:30 AM
Dreamweaver is very much competition for Zend. It may not be the best program to use; however, it does work extremely well for the novice programmer.

There is also Nusphere's PhpED (http://www.nusphere.com) which is very similar to Zend's Neon; however, it doesn't use Java as a base.

There's also Komodo, PHPDesigner and a few others. But here is a page (http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-php-ide/index.html) which compares a few of them for you :)
kardiostep
03-31-2008, 09:31 AM
great, thanks
NogDog
04-01-2008, 04:45 AM
Not sure how it compares to the others, but there is also the open-source Eclipse PDT IDE (http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/).

PS: I didn't see that second link of Bpat's: it includes Eclipse along with several others.
bpat1434
04-01-2008, 07:37 AM
The Eclipse PDT, in my eyes, doesn't really compare to Zend IDE 6 (Neon), Komodo IDE, NuSphere PhpED, PHPDesigner, etc. The main reason is because all of the latter are IDEs and the PDT is not, it's more of a syntax highlighter for an IDE (Eclipse). Now, Neon is based on Eclipse and uses the PDT base, but it extends it so much further it's not even funny.
NogDog
04-01-2008, 10:55 AM
I just downloaded the free (and castrated) version of PHP Designer last night after reading that link, and find it to be pretty nice for what is there and with a better "feel" for my tastes than Eclipse. I might break down and buy the "professional" version at some point if it continues to grow on me. If I do, I'll be sure to post a review here at some point in time. :)