Have done all these years of technology, did not develop a record and accumulated habits. Now willing to open source and share, but stop the pen hesitated, do not know where to start. Open Blog also has a period of time, has not written a decent technical article, think for a long time think should be gradual, from the construction and configuration development debugging environment began.
There are many common PHP integrated development environments, such as: Zend Studio, Phpstorm, Eclipse, NetBeans, Dreamweaver, etc., each has its own advantages and disadvantages.
Zend Studio: Zend Technologies, based on the famous Eclipse two development IDE, is currently recognized as the best PHP development environment, including all the parts needed for developing, editing, debugging, and configuring PHP programs, and integrating the PHP development process All the tools, code hints and auto-complete functions are good, debugging code is very convenient, support for the Zend framework framework is very good, the only disadvantage is that HTML, JavaScript, CSS support is not very good.
Phpstorm: Is the IDE developed by JetBrains company, with the encoding artifact IntelliJ idea the same origin, the functional configuration is very simple, code hints and automatic completion is very powerful, HTML, JavaScript, CSS support is very powerful, Debugging is also very convenient, is simply PHP development artifact. The only drawback is the charge, but the celestial ... You know.
NetBeans: is an open source IDE, as a rising star, code hints and automatic completion of the speed of less, the support of various frameworks is general, but lightweight, free, occupy small memory, support a variety of development languages, HTML, JavaScript, CSS support is also good.
Dreamweaver: Adobe's front-end development artifact, support for HTML, JavaScript, CSS is very good, code hints and auto-completion speed is slightly slower, there are a variety of development mode selection, very convenient. Overall, not a good PHP development environment, and there is no free open source version.
PHP Integrated development Environment comparison