Myles Wakeham wrote:

>> On 01-Dec-2008 20:58:03, firebird-php@yahoogroups.com wrote:
>> We are thinking of developing a web enabled application using Firebird
>> & PHP. As we are new to PHP, thinking of using a tool for faster and
>> error free dev. Can someone compare between 'Delphi for PHP' and 'Zend
>> Studio'(we are familiar with Delphi)?
>
> Any IDE that you use has to be rugged, reliable and contain all the support
> for the language in question. I have been using Zend Studio for years and
> years, and love it. I bought Delphi for PHP back in v1 days, and have v2
> and I'm still not convinced of its usefulness for PHP development. Nor its
> stability and suitability for production code.
>
> PHP really is about tapping into communities of user contributed, open
> source code and my take on Delphi for PHP was that it distorts that paradigm
> to the point where you have to use the tool to either develop components
> that fit within it, or use the components that come with it or are available
> through 3rd parties. This completely goes against the overall philosophy of
> open source software libraries for PHP, IMHO, which makes it rather
> difficult to fit PHP projects into Delphi for PHP.
>
> If others have succeeded in doing this, I'm all ears, but for now I'm
> sticking with Zend Studio for my code development. Works great for me.

An alternative that costs nothing to test is Eclipse with PHPEclipse. I
switched to that from Builder5/6 some time ago, and am finding it very
flexible. The nice thing is that I can be on a Linux machine or a
Windows machine and it makes no real difference to what I am doing.
Eclipse also supports my documentation activities as well as managing
the legacy Builder code.

I use Bitweaver as the base for all the newer PHP development work but
there are a number of options in that side ...

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