What was it missing? Like many of the cross-platform IDE's, it's a Java application which means it is slower than it could be on Windows. It includes almost all of the features I regularly use and plugins to fill in the gap. There are tons of stories on the Net from developers switching from Eclipse to NetBeans but very few going in the other direction.
PHPDesigner is even a native Windows app which is why I might still consider it. Some of the try before you buy contenders included PhpStorm 7.13 and PHPDesigner 8.1.2. My problem was part technology and part learning what I wanted to do in NetBeans which was to initiate the debugging session from within my web browser without having to modify the URL.Īlthough both of these are free, I would not have minded paying for an IDE for PHP development since I do a fair amount of this for a living. It did take me a little to figure out the XDEBUG integration but I got it to work exactly as I expected. NetBeans 8 - Way better user interface than Eclipse in my opinion.I'm not sure if it is even being developed anymore. PDT isn't even listed in their main list of downloads. Although I didn't try Eclipse (PDT), I did try Aptana which is built on Eclipse but I don't want to have to struggle to figure out the user interface… I want to code! Way too much work to try and find information. While I'm sure it's a fine product, the website is ancient and not user friendly. Eclipse (PDT) 3.5 - Didn't bother trying it.There are many great IDE's out there and everyone will have their favourite. I compared features of 9 different IDE's for PHP development and reading tons of reviews. After spending way more time that I should like to admit trying to get XDEBUG to work with Notepad++ using the DBGp plugin in anything but the simplest of projects, I decided to look for an alternative.
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