PHP IDE with Design View in linux

[Tanzeem M.B]

Hi

Dreamweaver CS5 has now got PHP syntax checking along with its

most userfriendly and famous feature- The Design View.

There is no Opensource alternative anywhere near DW.

Quantaplus is good to some extend and i am using that for development.

But this still lacks syntax highlighting.And the features that i went trough are much less compared to DW.

Eclipse and NetBeans have PHP plugins with syntax checking but no design view.

Any movements in this field to increase capability of QuantaPlus or add design view to Eclipse/NetBeans.?

Anybody to write design view plugins to NetBeans and Eclipse will be much welcomed

Happy coding- programers...

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Tanzeem M.B
Programmer, C-DIT

[Jaseem Abid]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Tanzeem M.B <tanze...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Dreamweaver CS5 has now got PHP syntax checking along with its
> most userfriendly and famous feature- The Design View.

I have never really used DW, so can you list a few DW features which you cannot live without?

> There is no Opensource alternative anywhere near DW.

[citation required] ;)

> Quantaplus is good to some extend and i am using that for development.

I just checked a few screenshots, and I generally hate IDEs with a million buttons and menus. And last stable release - 3.5.9 / February 20, 2008; 5 years ago

> But this still lacks syntax highlighting.And the features that i went trough
> are much less compared to DW.

All you want is syntax highlighting? Gedit can do that pretty well afaik. Even comes with a few extra features such as snippets etc.

> Eclipse and NetBeans have PHP plugins with syntax checking but no design
> view.

Is it a wysiwyg thing for UI? If so, imho its a pretty horrendous way to design UI now. 

I stick to emacs and comes with the best syntax highlighting possible for almost all languages I know of. It can extend the conventional syntax colouring and for eg, add bg colors to all color codes in the code(rainbow-mode). Please see the attached image. I'd suggest picking vim/emacs/sublime and not eclipse or even proprietary DW unless you are coding java(which is not coding but auto finishing everything). 

My 2 cents. 

Jaseem Abid
github.com/jaseemabid