RAD PHP Tools

drtanz

Hi I was taking a look at CodeCharge a RAD for PHP and other languages, was wondering whether there are any other top RAD programs that are used alot by PHP Developers? thanks

scross

I believe Zend Studio is fairly popular with php developers: http://www.zend.com/products/zend_studio
However, most developers use editors such as Notepad++, with special code editing features (like syntax highlighting, for example), allowing for maximum control and no cost.

Kudose

I use my classes and PSPad.

I also have Zend Studio, but I prefer PSPad.

www.pspad.com

drtanz

however what you are mentioning are IDEs while i am more interested in actual RAD tools, if anyone has any more suggestions or any actual comments about codecharge id be happy to know them thanks

scross

Shouldn't you conduct your own research? And if you want to know more about the application you mentioned why not type it in on google? I looked on its website and found it has a 20 day trial so that would be a great way to try it out. If you really want to know, my personal opinion is that you should use Notepad++ or another text/code editor and learn the PHP language rather than taking shortcuts since PHP is not awfully difficult and it can take you on to other similar languages such as C/C++ (though I understand if you have time restrictions).

crux_op

Hmmm I use Symfony - http://www.symfony-project.com/
It's not another Rails clone. It came as a fork from the Mojavi project.

Then I bundle it with PHPEd. Having a framework (like Zend) + a remote debugger is the best.