MODx and IDE's

I’ll praise it again; the best choice IMHO is Eclipse + PHPEclipse + Spket + Subclipse. I tried Aptana, even bought a commercial license, but turned out to be way too unstable for me and just didn’t have the power and features I was hoping it would. PDT will never provide all the features of the Zend IDE that is based on it, Zend’s gotta make money after all. But PHPEclipse is open-source, I can contribute to it if I am so inclined, and generally has been very stable for me.

If there were any official IDE for MODx, I would propose it be Eclipse + PHPEclipse + Spket + Subclipse + whatever other Eclipse plugins you like. Of course, TextMate comes in handy as well (and integrates well into Eclipse), but not everyone develops on a Mac.

For Text Mate clone on Windows (e-TextEditor) is it. Supports TM Bundles and works well. I’m going to move to OpenGeeks reqs since I can only go by what professional devs suggest.

Yes, Eclipse + PHPEclipse + Spket + Subclipse is an excellent combo. I’d only add QuantumDB for db management and Beyond compare plugin to replace the compare operations in eclipse. Beyond compare costs a little, but haven’t seen a better compare/merging SW yet and it binds nicely to eclipse.

OK, here is a silly question...which version of Eclipse should I download?
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/compare-packages
I have no need for any Java stuff all I need is PHP support, is Classic Eclipse what I need? But classic sounds old?

So far Aptana wins on the easy to download requisite, there was just one option

Quote from: dev_cw at Aug 22, 2008, 07:31 PM

OK, here is a silly question...which version of Eclipse should I download?
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/compare-packages
I have no need for any Java stuff all I need is PHP support, is Classic Eclipse what I need? But classic sounds old?

Get Classic Eclipse; you may not need the Java stuff, and you can turn it off once you get it up and running, but it’s the default language supported by the IDE. Once you get Eclipse installed and running, you can go to the Help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install... option, select the Search for New Features to Install option, click New Remote Site... and enter in http://update.phpeclipse.net/update/nightly/ (or they have a less cutting-edge release available, but why?), and off you go to installing new features...

Thanks, that should get me going. And I thought I had nothing to do this weekend

I think I’ll stick with Aptana!

Eclipse doesn’t work with html/css files out-of-the-box and after installing the webtools plugin it still isn’t as good as aptana. Do I have to install something else to get eclipse a bit like Aptana, or do I have to stay at Aptana??

you can install aptana as a plugin for eclipse, aptana stand-alone is nothing else as eclipse+aptana-plugin, so far I know

Quote from: Bruno17 at Aug 25, 2008, 08:33 AM

you can install aptana as a plugin for eclipse, aptana stand-alone is nothing else as eclipse+aptana-plugin, so far I know

Yes, that is what I read to on the download section of Aptana. So I think I will stick to Aptana for now... It works easier for me then eclipse because everything I need for making websites is in there. The only thing I miss is a SQL browser.

I don’t use stuff like subversion/svn, does someone use this on a windows platform? I think I would like to use it to have versioning, but I still want to use the folder structure we already have here at the company. We are a company that also does print work. Am I able to set up a subverion repository with the excisting files and still be able to use the files in other programs like the adobe creative suite??

It’s not a perfect solution but I’ve just started using a Firefox plug-in called "It’s all text" it add an Edit button to all text fields and you like it to your favorite editor. I’ve used it for a week or so and it’s very useful to edit templates and snippets using any editor you wish.