Hi all,
I figured some Drupal folks might be interested in the upcoming PHP Meetup event. We'll be talking about IDE's - Indegrated Development Environments. If you're programming and not using an IDE, it would definitely be worth your while to found out if these tools can help you. Two of the three presenters are Drupal developers (from Rock River Star) so I'm sure some of the code presented and the tips given will be particularly relevant for Drupal.
The event takes place at Wharton. RSVP is here:
http://www.meetup.com/phillyphp/calendar/12399468/
And more info is below. Hope to see you there!
Nate
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Nathan Gasser
Rock River Star
http://www.rockriverstar.com
As a programmer, your text editor is your most powerful tool for working more productively. You probably rely on key bindings, syntax highlighting, macros, and other features to speed your coding. But if you're not using an IDE - an Integrated Development Environment - you might as well be programming with mittens on.
In addition to incorporating powerful text editors, IDEs incorporate class and object browsers, hooks to svn/git and other version control systems, source-level debuggers, and more. By actually running your code inside your editor, you have much greater insight into what your code is doing, where it's going wrong, and how to get back on track fast.
In this presentation, we'll introduce the concepts and tools of IDEs, and take a tour of some of the most popular among PHP developers, including Eclipse (including Zend Studio, PDT, and Aptana variations), NetBeans, and PHPEd. Whether you develop on Windows, Linux, or OSX, adopting an IDE will undoubtedly improve your workflow and efficiency.
So come out to the first Philly PHP Meetup of 2010 and learn how one of these IDEs can make your coding more efficient and more enjoyable. There'll be pizza, sodas, and plenty of PHP to go around.
Comments
Is this just for IDE beginners
Hi Nathan,
I've been using Eclipse with XDebug for a couple of months now and really loving it. I'm thinking is attending the meetup, but I'm not sure if it's meant for intermediate users or not (which is the level I feel I'm at with Eclipse). Is there a detailed agenda of what is covered, and would it be possible to see it?
Thanks for hosting the meetup and posting.
D
eclipse and xdebug?
Hi dkinzer:
I just learned about XDebug yesterday. I'm also trying to learn Eclipse this month (oops, time's almost up!)
How do you use XDebug in Eclipse? Is the interface to XDebug integrated into Eliclipse?
Thanks!
Eric Lucas (aka: mistere)
There's a really good article
There's a really good article ad devzone which I used to help me get started:
http://devzone.zend.com/article/2803-Introducing-xdebug
I highly recommend it.
Cheers!,
D
PS there is some configuration needed in order to integrated with Eclipse. Zend-debug? I think comes with eclipse, but then you need to zend server, so I used xdebug instead.
Good meetup
I found this to be very useful in evaluating IDE options out there. We were able to see PHPedit, Eclipse, Netbeans, and PhpEd. I've decided to learn and use Netbeans for a while. Seems to have the cleanest interface and decent Drupal support (code parsing).
There is a Drupal plugin for Netbeans that I've had no trouble getting setup.
https://nbdrupalsupport.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folder...
It uses xdebug, which isn't very difficult to get installed on an ubuntu workstation. A simple google search will find you several links to instructions.
http://www.google.com/search?q=xdebug+ubuntu&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=...
Good job by all of our Presenters. Thanks to Rock River Star for again setting up an effective and enjoyable experience.