Netbeans - Productive Object Oriented Programming

[beniston]

Here is an IDE which I use for many months now.

Though I have started my career with Dreamweaver...soon I became uncomfortable because of many reasons.

One of the reasons is that it doesn't support a project with OOP Structure to the comfort level of an experienced coder.

Here are some free IDEs to consider: Eclipse, Netbeans, Geny, etc...

There are many programmers who uses Netbeans these days because of their good support and growth.

Some months ago they reached their new mile stone version 7. They still grow and now they reached the version 7.1.2.

This IDE is free to download.

http://netbeans.org/
http://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html

[beniston]

They have come up with a new beta release which was quiet good

7.2 Beta

http://netbeans.org/community/releases/72/

Performance
- Project scanning now on background, not blocking editor features and navigation
- Improved project scanning speed
- Improved performance on remote Filesystems

PHP
- Support for PHP 5.4
- PHP editing: Fix Uses action, annotations support, editing of Neon and Apache Config files and more
- Support for Symfony2, Doctrine2 and ApiGen frameworks
- FTP remote synchronization
- Support for running PHP projects on Hudson

NetBeans Platform
- Positioning of tabs in window system can be configured
- Support for custom implementations of tab control

Miscelleanous
- Subversion 1.7 built-in support
- Improved Find in Projects functionality

[beniston]

Netbeans 7.2 (stable) has been released.

http://netbeans.org/community/news/show/1562.html

Some highlights on PHP
- Support for: PHP 5.4
- PHP editor enhancements
- PHP annotations

[beniston]

Netbeans 7.3 has been released with HTML 5 support and other enhancements.

http://netbeans.org/community/releases/73/

* Parsers for Namespaced Annotations (Symfony 2, Doctrine 2, etc.)
* Basic Composer Integration (Dependency Manager for PHP)
* Twig Code Completion (with documentation)
* Smarty Braces Matching for Related Tags
* Smarty Parser Errors of Unmatched Tags

Sadly nothing new for Zend 2.x