code completion

In a new post to his blog Sasa Stamenkovic compares two of the most popular IDEs PHP developers are using these days - Eclipse and NetBeans and how they stack up on various criteria including configuration, navigation, version control support and debugging.

Eclipse Helios (3.6) and Zend Studio 7.1 (and above) include a new version of Eclipse PDT, labeled 2.2. This new release uses a new repository for storing code reference information.

With these simple tips you can significantly improve the performance of this repository which will speed up code completion, searching for definitions, type hierarchy views and more.

The introduction of Helios (Eclipse 3.6) included the release of version 1.0 of Xtext - Language Development Framework.

With Xtext you can easily create your own programming languages and domain-specific languages (DSLs).

The framework supports the development of language infrastructures including compilers and interpreters as well as full blown Eclipse-based IDE integration.

Daniel Cousineau has posted a quick tip for Netbeans users that are working with the Zend Framework.

The tip involves code completion support in your Zend_View instances.

In a recent post to the PHP-GTK Community site, there's a new presentation on code completion for PHP-GTK in Netbeans (illustrated here).

Jose Antonio Bayona Medina has put up a slideshow demonstrating how to use the basic technique outlined in this chapter to add PHP-GTK 2 autocompletion in Netbeans 6.7.

The NetBeans team (Sun) has recently announced namspace support or PHP development in their IDE. They've also just posted a screencast showing how this new functionality works.

The NetBeans IDE (with extensions for PHP) has officially added support for the Symfony framework to the latest releases of their software:

On DZone.com today there's a new screencast posted from the NetBeans IDE group showing how to create a simple Flickr slide show inside the application.