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Eclipse “must-have” development tools/plugins for PHP

According to this post, i ask $title. Which are your favorite PHP coding related Eclipse plugins? Without you can't live? Why?
I list my own plugins of choice:

Which are yours?

Solution

  • As a PHP developper, mainly back-end, I'm using :

    • Eclipse PDT for PHP development
      • It's one of the best free IDE for PHP, I think
      • Integration with Xdebug for debugging os pretty nice, too ;-)
    • Subversive for SVN integration
    • Aptana (plugged into PDT) for HTML/CSS/JS
    • Filesync (My project is on a Virtual Machine, which exports its files via a samba share ; this can take lots of time (several minutes) when re-building the project ; Filesync helps a lot with that)

    About Eclipse, you can find lots of questions/answers about plugins ; some of them apply to PHP, too.

    Aside from Eclipse, I also generally have a lightweight editor (like scite, or vim -- depending on the platform I'm working on) ; it's easier to take notes.