PHP NetBeans IDE 6.1 is in the house!
By now, most PHP programmers have heard of Eclipse, the extensible open source development platform that is rapidly becoming the most popular IDE for PHP programming. However, some developers have never heard of NetBeans before. Feature-for-feature, Eclipse and NetBeans are well matched. In fact, because they are both extensible, any feature gaps between the two can be filled in with third-party plug-ins.
Eclipse and Netbeans are rapidly approaching the capabilities of commercial offerings. Most developers won’t need more than what these two excellent development platforms provide.
Comparing NetBeans and Eclipse
The most recent versions of these two IDEs have far more similarities than differences. They both have syntax checking, code completion, and code folding. They both let you run and debug your code. They both support Ant, SVN, and Unit Testing.
Hi,
I’m one of the developers, who make the PHP support in NetBeans. The version for NetBeans 6.1 is “only” Early Access, so it’s not final first version. We are looking for feedbacks and find out, which features are requested by PHP developers. The first final version will be available in NetBeans 6.5.
Petr
Petr Pisl
May 21, 2008 at 8:38 am
Hi Petr,
You are doing an excellent job ;) Looking forward to version 6.5!
phpimpact
May 21, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Very nice job with NetBeans.
Addons hell from eclipse was pretty anoying :)
Alin-T
May 22, 2008 at 6:02 am
Is time to leave dreamweaver! Any change to add support for remote FTP editing?
Carros DF
May 26, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Regarding to the ftp support, we are working on it. It should be available soon in dev build.
Petr Pisl
May 27, 2008 at 9:45 am
I use Aptana, also an Eclipse-based editor that supports PHP. I used to think NetBeans only supported Java.
BoltClock
May 31, 2008 at 3:25 pm
This is VERY good news.
Is there ftp support yet and if so where can i find it?
Dotan
June 21, 2008 at 11:07 am