> This off topic, but one of our programmers is interested in NuSphere's
PHPEd
> development interface and I would liek some feed back from other users.
>
> His interest lies not so much in using for database table modeling, but
for
> PHP and Perl development.
If he's not really that interested in the mysql integration than I would
say that you could probably go with a different IDE. PHPed's db integration
and built-in php debugger are about the only two things that set it apart
from other IDE's.
I am well aware of the conflict a few months ago
> between MySQL and NuSphere, but I have never heard anything one way or the
> other about PHPEd.
At nearly $500 per package, it is not a decision I wish
> to make without some feedback from the community.
>
> How does PHPEd stack up compared to other PHP IDE's? What experience (good
> or bad) has anyone had with it? Is there another product that is better?
>
> Any feed back (either to the list or me me privately) will be appreciated.
Before you make a commitment, you can apply for a trial version of
PHPed. You have to give them real contact information, (I think I've gotten
like 5 sales-pitch emails since I downloaded my free trial 3 months ago.)
So you can give it a shot before you buy... and at $500 you should probably
try it first.
As for feedback on experience with the editor:
When you try to install the editor (at least this was what it did three
months ago) It wants to install it's own copies of Apache and MySQL. kind
of un-handy if you've got current installs you want to use. I think it gave
you the option to keep your own, but after I got everything installed, the
database integration wouldn't work. So I decided that I had free time on my
hands, I hosed my installs of apache and mysql and let it install it's own
stuff. after that I still couldn't get it to work properly. I probably
could have tweeked something here or there and gotten everything to go, but
my reaction was kind of like.. "I'm going to pay $300 to have to play with
it this much to get it to work?" It just didn't seem worth it Given that I
currently used allaire's homesite and the only things that PHPed had over
that in features was the db integration and php debugger, and I had already
worked out my own solutions to those problems.
I recommend downloading the trial version before you buy. I also recommend
downloading the trial version of homesite as well. Homesite gives you
syntax highlighting, project management, web deployment. "scriptable"
deployment wich lets you decide what gets sent, where it gets put etc... all
in a script that you can re-run. Plus homesite let's you edit the ide to
add in features that you may need
(http://www.macromedia.com/software/homesite/) Or look into Quanta
depending on what platform you plan on developing on.
I found it ironic that if you buy PHPed standard, it only runs on windows
platforms, and that if you decided to buy PHP advantage, "then" you get
linux support. seems like it should be the other way around given that the
product they are trying to sell was built on the back of Open Source
technologies.
> Gerald Jensen
>
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