Sunday, September 28, 2008

A good development environment

One of the best things you can do when editing a complex web application is to get a good IDE. I am using the PHP Development Tools for Eclipse, which has the great ability to display where (in the whole project) a function is declared when I am hovering over the function name. This is a giant time saver when you have a project (like Magento) with a zillion little scripts.

If you are using Windows, try and find an All-In-One zips, but if I remember, the install was not so straight forward. Otherwise, install Eclipse and then try to get the PDT installed.

If you are using Linux, just use your package manager to install the eclipse-phpeclipse package.

Also, if you need a good FTP / SFTP client, check out FileZilla. It is, without a question, the best FTP client I have used.

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