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Sun announces Symfony support in NetBeans 7.0
Author: eHabib7 Feb
For a while now Symfony developers have been looking for a good IDE to use when developing in the Symfony framework. Some use Eclipse with PDT (PHP Development Toolkit), some use NetBeans 6.5 with it’s recent support of the PHP stack, some have tried creating Symfony-specific Eclipse plugins, without much sucess and many often prefer to use their favorite text editor.
Whatever you choose, it’s great news to see that Sun is going to back Symfony specific things in its upcoming release of NetBeans 7.0 - the framework is maturing and so are its tools.
For a while now, NetBeans have been evaulating the support of a PHP framework within it’s stack. A call out went to Symfony developers, to vote if you want it!. NetBeans then began evalutating the big response it got from Symfony developers.
Not sure if it missed most peoples radar (it missed ours!) - but late last year, Sun announced Symfony will be supported as part of NetBeans 7.0:
“The news is that the Symfony support will be part of NetBeans 7.0. We are going to start work on it very soon. I hope that it will be a part of continual build this year and community can comment the support and work with us to finish it in the best possible quality and usability”
From what we can tell from here and the product Roadmap, NetBeans 7.0 release could be ready somewhere between April and June this year.
Do you use an IDE when developing in Symfony? What do you use? Do you think you will use NetBeans 7.0? Let us know… interested to hear your thoughts…
17 Responses for "Sun announces Symfony support in NetBeans 7.0"
I’ve been using NuSphere PhpEd and it works great for Symfony including the debugger.
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I have been using Vim but I will definitely give netbeans a try. All the screencasts use textmate, something with equivalent easy to use features would be awesome.
I use Eclipse PDT but am taking a look at PhpEd on Joshua’s recommendation, the screencasts look great. However I shall be interested to see what Netbeans comes up with.
I switched from jEdit, which has fantastic code folding, to PDT to get the code completion. However I’d love to see a product include both - good nested object completion and loop-level folding!
I use the new Espresso (still in beta) for OS X Leopard.
What I’d want is code-completion with descriptions from the doc comments in the symfony source code, so I don’t have to constantly hunt for a method name in the API documentation.
Cheers, Daniel
I use Activestate’s Komodo. The reason that I’ve stuck with it is because I don’t have to configure a URL for any page or site that I want to debug. I just navigate to the page I want to debug in Firefox (for example, I don’t want to debug a login page or some other process that comes before the targeted page for debugging), turn on an Xdebug session using a Firefox plugin just before I hitting the targeted debug page, and voila… the targeted page comes up in Komodo ready for stepping through. I wish that option existed in other IDE’s. But I haven’t been able to get any to work that way.
i use eclipse but i will switch to eclipse if the implementation is good
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Zend for Eclipse… i love the debugger & templates
Awesome news!!!
Recently I’m using netbeans 6.5 and its awesome!
and Zend studio before.
developing projects using symfony on any IDE, is just pain in the ass, specially if you got used to the idea of code completion.
cant wait!
I just switched to Netbeans with php. I am very happy to use that ide. It is very efficient and very simple to install. IL like functions like : completion, code verification, navigation to a function, find and replace in project files, indentation.
Thanks for that good soft.
I second the awesomeness. I have been using netbeans for my java work since 5.5, 6.0 was cool, 6.5 PHP support was spot on in my mind. Netbeans and Textmate are my editors of choice, Netbeans is a great php environment for OO developers. I am now undertaking a mid sized (read at least 1 year in development) Symfony project, so I will be delighted to use netbeans 7 and its Symfony pluggin sounds great.
I use NetBeans 6.5 with its PHPStack. My applications are not that big yet, so not much need of debugging and all. What I really needed was something called php-stack in NetBeans 6.5. I loved it as soon as I tried it. Now looking ahead to NetBeans 7.
i need to use nusphere in creating symfony projects, so please Joshua Coady, can u tell me how i creat symfony project using nusphere
Yes, I will definitely use Netbeans 7 as I already work with it for Symfony projects.
Cheers
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Quite right! It seems to me it is very good idea. Completely with you I will agree.
In it something is. Earlier I thought differently, I thank for the information.
Excellent
Quite right! It is excellent idea. I support you.
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