PHP IDE with best code completion? [closed]

Answer 1

You're right that intellisense is much more complicated in a dynamically typed language like php. Consider for example

  function get_foo($x) {
       return $x ? new abc() : new xyz();
  }

  get_foo(123)->... can your IDE autocomplete here?

Don't know about PDT, but Netbeans is unable to handle this, and phped requires 'get_foo' to be annotated in a special way.

I haven't yet tried the upcoming WebIDE from Jetbrains (http://www.jetbrains.com/webide/features/index.html), but looks promising in this regard (see screenshot).

Answer 2

You can try Zend Studio.

Answer 3

I recommend you netbeans .its free. it is available for all platforms, and mostly it is good for editing php, jsp, java, css, html, ... Good for SVN, mercurial, Plus you can integrate it easyly with kenai.com...

it helps with the IntelliSense kind of pop up.

believe me, i'm using it for php development and its the best suited ide i can find...

Answer 4

I have yet to see anything top the Auto Completion that was in Zend Studio 5.x. I have tried later versions, which are built on Eclipse, and well might as well be using Aptana...

Unfortunately this means keeping windows with the XP or 2000 look since the Java GUI (the one Zend Studio was built on) screws up in Win7 Look, but for the features Zend 5 has, it is well worth it.

Not only will it auto complete known functions, it will autocomplete variables/functions you make, and not only for your current file, but any open file (and I think any in open project), and will auto suggest Class items as well.

Plus being able to run local inside Zend Studio itself for testing parts of code is great. If only it easily let you save to both local file system and upload to the server at the same time.... (I just let a FTP program running in the background that every 10 minutes will download any changes to the server).

Answer 5

Kimodo has good code completion, revealing not only the functions in PHP, but the stuff that you've got declared in the current context. Additionally, if you've properly documented your function or whichever, it displays that documentation as well!