You don't need a really big expensive program to have a development environment. You can use Vim as a small part of your Dev, but honestly you need more. VCS, deployment automation, staging servers, etc.
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Merrill Oveson <[email protected]> wrote: > Phpers: > > My boss said "No more vim!" So I ask: What's the best development > environment? > > What I need: > 1) windows based system If that's what you are stuck with it can work. > 2) automatic ftp to linux server(s) - LAMP stack This is a pretty bad idea. You should be using version control. Don't upload directly, check into a VCS, and check out to your server. > 3) automatically pumps out html based on dragging and drops of input > tags, buttons, etc - Does this even exist? LOL, Frontpage/Dreamweaver clone. Not a chance. Bad code, poor maintainability. > 4) Can be free or expensive. My boss doesn't care. He says my time > is more expensive than any software package - especially if it makes > me more productive. * Big fancy IDEs w/ completion, testing, debugging, integrated VCS Eclipse + PHP plugins, Zend Studio, Netbeans * GUI Editors w/ a few IDE like features gEdit, TextMate, bbEdit, gVim, Emacs, etc (i'm sure you can find one for Windows) * CLI Editors (just use your own CLI power, aliases, shortcuts, etc) Vim, Emacs, Whatever you choose, you just need to build the infrastructure, and learn your tools well. _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
