What Tools and Extensions are Critical for Magento Development? [closed]

Answer 1

1. Commerce Bug by Alan Storm is a Must for all developers.

2. Developer Toolbar by MGT is another very good tool for Magento analysis.

3. Netbeans/PHP Storm IDE is recommended.

4. Git.

5. LAMP/WAMP.

6. PhpMyAdmin/ PHPMiniAdmin.

7. Mage::log and exception Log effective use.

8. Magento Path Hints.

9. New Relic.

10. SQL query log by modifying PDO file.

11. Module that displays what all blocks delivered from Cache.

12. Inbuilt Magento Profiler.

Answer 2

Commerce Bug extension from Allan Storm :-)

Aptana/Eclipse for IDE

UltraEdit for quick edits

Wamp

Xdebug

Answer 3

Zend Studio or EditPlus

Subversion/svnmerge.py

PHPDoc

PHPUnit

Jira/Confluence for task/bug tracking and project specifications

You can see how to work with Magento using ZendStudio here, in Magento Webinars Archive

Answer 4

I've been using Zend Studio on Ubuntu for a while now and love it. Combining a powerful IDE and command line tools (grep, etc...) has my vote.

On a side note, I've been working on a Magento extension named "Advanced Developer Tools". I use it (a lot!) to get info about blocks and edit XML and PHTML files by clicking on blocks. It's still beta though.

Answer 5

Personal developer surely need

• PHP IDE (Zend Studio, NetBeans or PhpStorm)
• LAMP/WAMP on personal development machine
• X-Debug as a must
• MySQL client (HeidiSQL)
• Firefox + FireBug as main browser; Safari 4/5, Chrome, Opera 10, IE 6/7/8/9
• SSH Client (PuTTY)
• FTP Client and File manager over SSH (WinSCP)
• Manuals for PHP, MySQL, Javascript and Prototype
• Bug tracking system (Jira)
• SVN to keep own revisions and be in touch with future Magento release from at magentocommerce.com
• KDiff3 for SVN better sources comparison
• Image Viewer (XnView) to work with images from time to time
• Password keeper (PwSafe) for all hostings, mysqls and other passwords
• Internet access for Q&A, Magento forums and tutorials

No custom extensions are really necessary, X-Debug and own experience help a lot. For beginners Commerce Bug will be helpful.

Answer 6

Development

Local setup is MacBook, Coda, MAMP, Navicat to manage MySQL, Git or SVN depending on project.

Staging area is on my development server (LAMP) or on client-provided hosting.

For starting projects I have a base template and module set that includes most of what I put into projects.

Modules

Just started using Alan's Commerce Bug. I plan on looking into MageTool soon.

I use Unirgy's Gift Cert and Store Locator often.