Aptana PHP Eclipse: The open-source PHP IDE

A couple of weeks ago, Aptana announced the 1.0 availability of the Aptana PHP development environment. It’s got everything you need to get started with developing, testing, tuning, and deploying your PHP Web apps. From pre-installed PHP servers, code assist, code templates, code generation, debugging, refactoring, database tools and more, Aptana PHP gives you the end-to-end tools you need for PHP plus all the rest that Aptana Studio has to offer.

Aptana PHP Eclipse is the free, open-source alternative to Zend Studio Eclipse. You can run Aptana Studio standalone, or plug it into other Eclipse-based IDEs like Adobe Flex Builder, Zend Studio, or Eclipse itself. You can also extend Studio with more Aptana plug-ins or other 3rd party plug-ins for Eclipse.

Mac OS X tip

If you are using OS X, disable font anti-aliasing in Eclipse, otherwise the fonts are unreadable. There is a system wide setting in the control panel, but it affects all applications. To selectively disable anti-aliased text for eclipse, fire up console and enter this command:

defaults write org.eclipse.core.runtime AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 20

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Written by Federico

December 20, 2008 at 1:43 am

Posted in PHP

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I’ve been using the beta (and now the release version) at work for some time and I’m quite happy with it. A coworker that also has Zend Studio says he only like Zend better because of the ability to connect by FTP. (I’m pretty sure it was http://FTP... It was some standard connection protocol.)

WC

December 20, 2008 at 3:32 am
Aptana is a great IDE for sure but I think PDT is extremely powerfull and when you mix it with other components, like RSE, you have a pretty nice IDE, actually I’m using NetBeans, for now is great, JavaScript autocomplete, lots of JS toolkits (autocomplete for them too ;-)) a powerfull html editor…, I mean is really really great.

jfalvarez

December 20, 2008 at 6:40 pm
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strictlyPHP

December 20, 2008 at 8:45 pm
netbeans 6.5 rulezzz =)

dypa

December 21, 2008 at 9:15 am
I used aptana with my mac but it hanged always. So I prefer pdt eclipse

Jens

December 24, 2008 at 9:25 am
[...] Aptana PHP Eclipse: IDE para PHP y Ruby de código abierto. Tiene muy buena pinta. vía: phpimpact [...]

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