

There are tons of stories on the Net from developers switching from Eclipse to NetBeans but very few going in the other direction.
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PHPDesigner is even a native Windows app which is why I might still consider it. Some of the try before you buy contenders included PhpStorm 7.13 and PHPDesigner 8.1.2. My problem was part technology and part learning what I wanted to do in NetBeans which was to initiate the debugging session from within my web browser without having to modify the URL.Īlthough both of these are free, I would not have minded paying for an IDE for PHP development since I do a fair amount of this for a living. It did take me a little to figure out the XDEBUG integration but I got it to work exactly as I expected.

Eclipse (PDT) 3.5 - Didn't bother trying it.There are many great IDE's out there and everyone will have their favourite.

I compared features of 9 different IDE's for PHP development and reading tons of reviews. After spending way more time that I should like to admit trying to get XDEBUG to work with Notepad++ using the DBGp plugin in anything but the simplest of projects, I decided to look for an alternative.
