Recently I saw very nice post in the famous site www.smashingmagazine.com about how to choose good IDE for PHP. There is a contest between four of the most used PHP development environments : Eclipse, which is my favorite, Zend Studio 6, Aptana PHP and Aptana Studio Pro.
Interesting link about JavaScript plugin for Eclipse can be found on http://spket.com/, and is my recommendation.
The author of the article gives you good reason why using an IDE, and that’s why you can have:
- Syntax highlighting.
- Code completion.
- Navigation into the code.
- Errors and warnings highlighting.
- Refactoring and code generation.
- Debugging.
- Versioning system.
- Client-side features.
Great thanks for the smashingmagazine.com about this very good article, and don’t waste time to read it and start using an IDE.