Comments on: The ultimate PHP web development environment, part 2

By: brian

brian — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:54:50 +0000

Great tutorial! … helped me clear up a lot of things in my endeavors to become ruthlessly efficient with php .. many thanks!

By: Akash Mehta

Akash Mehta — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:07:59 +0000

@tariquesani: I tried to install it but it crashed on the first startup, and a couple of friends had similar results. If I can get it to work I’ll add it in, but I can’t recommend a broken application. I’m currently taking another look at Zend Studio for Eclipse, though, so I might post about it later.

@ellisgl: I’m aware of the lack of support in PHP 6, and I was considering not recommending it, but too many applications (especailyl those you might want to try out on a local development server) take advantage of it. You shouldn’t be interpreting raw XML in PHP anyway; echo it in a string and while quoted PHP will skip over it as it should. Jumping in and out of PHP and *ML is (in most situations) bad practice anyway. Also, added overhead is anything but a concern on a local development server.

By: ellisgl

ellisgl — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:07:39 +0000

short_open_tag = On — ACK NO!
short_open_tag = Off

Don’t use becuase:
1.) XML 2.) Added overhead
3.) No support for it in PHP 6.

By: tariquesani

tariquesani — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:50:43 +0000

A mention of Easy Eclipse for PHP http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/distributions/php.html will be appropriate. Takes away the pain of setting up Eclipse