Visual Studio alternative for PHP [closed]

Question

I have earlier worked on Visual Studio and am pretty much comfortable in using that. But now I have some programming work in PHP. Is there any plug in available that I can install on Visual Studio 2008/2010 and program in PHP/MySQL.

Answer 1

Commercial you have: Zend Studio wich is pretty powerfull.

Aptana is pretty good too

Of course Eclipse (Zend Studio is built on it). Now free!

Netbeans is lighter but very fast and practical I love it.

There are much lighter editors out there like textedit but if you want something like visual studio Zend/Eclipse is a good bet.

As for pluguins I guess I was wrong and there is http://www.jcxsoftware.com/ as pointed out by Sem Dendoncker. Seems pretty interresting I am downloading the trial now. But I am a cheap and love my free editors.

Answer 2

Try Codecharge Studio 5 which supports code generation, php and javascript events and direct connectivity with artisteer's templates.

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Answer 3

I've been using Devsense's PHP for a couple of months and it has been a live saver. Breakpoints, debug, variable visualization all within that familiar and fast environment of VS. It's a bit buggy, doesn't visualize SimpleXMLElements real well, at times won't scroll through inline javascript but it's helped me so much.

Notepad++, even with debug is a far cry from VS. Notepad++'s autocomplete is very slow, VS does pretty good.

I'm using it for WordPress and it does fine, with the exception that (for speed) I've excluded the WP core from the project.