Any Good PHP compiler/debugger in win32??

[cybeh]

Hi,

 

Wondering which PHP tools are you guys using? I am newbie that still using a notepad to check around with the osCommerce long code.

 

Please let me know some good tools out there.

 

Regards,

Ching-Yen Beh

[johnk]

This doesn't answer your question, but it may inspire someone looking for a coding project to work on.

 

I'm old enough to remember dbaseII, in fact I taught it back in the eighties. Like PHP, dbase was difficult to debug, but included in the package was a simple stepping program that read and executed one line of code at a time. For example, it would show:

 

If (name =john) { //instead of

if (name=$name) {

 

If there was an }else{ it would read or jump the code depending on the condition.

 

It wasn't a debugging device, but rather a controllable version of the script itself. I can't remember how many times it got me out of trouble.

 

It would be great to see such a stepping program for PHP. I"ve asked the question in other forums and the newsgroups but never received a reply. I understand there is something you can attach to php-ed, but it sounds like a can of worms to me.

 

If someone decides to write such a program, it needs to show the line it's reading on the left and show the result on the right. It should step through all called functions and includes as if they are part of the code.

 

It really wouldn't be a difficult program to write so hopefully we'll see it one day soon. Maybe it's already out there but I've just missed it.

[Arcadiauk]

My tools for OSC editing are

 

HAPedit http://hapedit.free.fr/ Freeware.

 

Frontpage 2000 for all HTML (Because i'm lazy)

 

Irfanview http://www.irfanview.com for all image re-sizing

 

Derek

[joeyjgarcia]

Unless you are willing to purchase the best IDE for PHP, I would say they are all mostly the same. I was on the search for a good php text editor but I finally gave up and went with TextPad mainly because it offered me features that I found to be real time savers.

 

Here are my suggestions for REAL features.

 

1) Search for a pattern in a folder and subfolders (I use this everything I code in osCommerce because of all the require functions or define variables). I can use this to find functions in other files in other directories too.

 

2) Word wrap - I don't know why many text editors don't implement this common feature but I hate scrolling al the way to the right.

 

All the rest is gravy for me. Debugging is nice, but again you're going to have to really invest to get something of quality here.

 

Lastly, PHP doesn't need to be compiled, you meant an editor/debugger.

 

Joey

[♥kymation]

PHPEdit has a built-in debugger. I've never used it, so I can't say how good it is (I just use the editor). I seem to get by with adding the occasional print or print_r to see what's going on. PHPEdit is free, so it won't cost you anything to check it out.

 

Regards

Jim

[Guest]

I use aceHTML 5.0 very good php debugger and editor....

 

 

Mike

[ngm_n]

dev-php good and free

Dev-PHP

or

Ultraedit