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MrNase
Sun 18th Apr '04, 5:04pm
As you may know Zend has published a beta of Zend Studio 3.5 (http://www.zend.com/store/products/zend-studio-beta.php).

The current version starts at $195 and iam not willing to pay that much to be able develope FREE software ;)
Sure, it is worth it but i don't want to spend money without getting some money back if you understand :rolleyes:

Do you know any (free) alternatives to Zend Studio? It should be something with nearly the same features...

(i guess this should go in the php forums!? If so please move it :))
filburt1
Sun 18th Apr '04, 5:14pm
Zend Studio comes in a free personal edition that they tuck away on their site. Although I would be interested in this as well as Zend Studio is horrendously buggy, so long as nobody suggests Notepad or a product less powerful than Zend Studio's main IDE.
MrNase
Sun 18th Apr '04, 5:28pm
Zend Studio Personal (http://www.zend.com/store/products/zend-studio-personal.php) doesn't offer all those interesting tools that could come in handy :(


There must be a free alternative but i agree with filburt1. Notepad is not the kind of tool iam searching for :D
Pogo
Sun 18th Apr '04, 6:12pm
From the c't magazine 8 (5.4.2004)

www.nostalb.de
quanta.sourceforge.net (Linux)
www.phpeclipse.de
www.maguma.com
www.weaverslave.ws
Surrix
Sun 18th Apr '04, 7:18pm
DZSoft came out with v2 of their PHP editor. While I haven't compared the two it might be something to look into. It is the editor of choice for me at least.

www.dzsoft.com
MrNase
Mon 19th Apr '04, 8:35am
What about Maguma Studio (free) (http://www.maguma.com/products/?article=Studio) ??
Jerry
Mon 19th Apr '04, 8:47am
What about Maguma Studio (free) (http://www.maguma.com/products/?article=Studio) ??

Probably one of the worst ones I've used in 20 years.
MrNase
Mon 19th Apr '04, 8:51am
hrhr ;)

ok, i aborted the download... Jerry, what would you recommend?
Dean C
Mon 19th Apr '04, 8:54am
I have yet to see a PHP editor which is trully a good IDE. I'd far rather code by hand. I mean anyone who knows what they're doing can recognize an error on a page as soon as they see it and find it within a minute. I don't need zend to do that for me :)
Jerry
Mon 19th Apr '04, 8:57am
Personally I use JEdit, but that isn't intergrated with a php debugger in the same way, yet. Though I keep meaning to setup http://dd.cron.ru/dbg/ and use that side by side with JEdit or get round to writing a plug in (though i'm a bit busy at the moment !!) as something like Nusphere PhpED (http://www.nusphere.com/) is nice but not worth $300 I think. Going to need it for use with testing (http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpunit/) as well.