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It looks like these are both comparable packages for doing PHP development in Eclipse - what are their relative advantages and disadvantages?
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A: Eclipse for PHP works really great with CodeIgniter. Netbeans is another good IDE, and Sublime is a good code editor for CodeIgniter.
Right-click and select New | PHP File -or- go to File on the Menu Bar and select New | PHP File. The PHP File creation dialog will be displayed. Enter the name of the file and click Next. The 'Use PHP Template' checkbox will be marked by default.
This blog post has a lot of info comparing the two, although it's obviously biased towards PHPEclipse.
The author notes that the history of the two, with PHPEclipse having a longer history than PDT. PHPEclipse is totally community contributed (of devs who mainly program in PHP doing Java) while PDT is developed by the Zend team.
In the comments, some people complain that PHPEclipse's main web page does it a disservice and makes it look it is no longer maintained. Others, often state they prefer PDT because of the auto-complete features.
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According to the chart on the PHPEclipse Website's Wiki, the main difference apparently is that PDT uses Zend Debugger while PHPEclipse features DBG.
http://www.phpeclipse.com/wiki/Comparison_Chart
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