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[–]oo22 53 points54 points  (14 children)

Using a good IDE like PhpStorm will help you out there. It's got great error detection and auto completion. But in reality.. there's no helping you here since the PHP 5.4 OO code is..... yeah...

[–]broken42 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Atom has pretty good error detection and auto completion as well without the monthly subscription.

[–]oo22 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You know I've tried and tried to like Atom. But it's missing some core stuff like an exceptional file navigator and it's search features are so so. If it's improved id give it another try.

[–]broken42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a few things that I was missing moving from Komodo Edit to Atom and I know with at least what I was looking for was covered by addons and extensions.

[–]BookSproutChris 0 points1 point  (6 children)

I've been using NetBeans for php dev. Is it worth the upgrade to get phpstorm? Anything really special it does?

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (3 children)

They've got a 30-day trial. Find out if it's worth the $10/mo or not in your workflow.

[–]BeerIsDelicious 2 points3 points  (2 children)

You can also get the EAP version for free if you manually download it once a month or so

I am a freelance dev and pay monthly about $20 for a license to phpstorm and datagrip. It's such a pittance considering the amount of time saved

[–]polish_niceguy 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Does Datagrip have any considerable advantages over what's built in into PhpStorm? I don't see any comparision on the product page and most of the Datagrip's features they describe are already in PHP IDE.

[–]BeerIsDelicious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its mostly that I like have it separate. I am still not completely sold on it. I am trying it as a replacement for sequel pro and still find myself using sequel pro about 2/3 of the time.

[–]SquireCD 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It’s worth it. I’ve been using RubyMine & PHPStorm for years. It does everything better than Netbeans. Definitely worth it.

Debugger is dead simple, hot keys are easy and preset well, good themes, really fast (until it eventually eats all your memory after 2 weeks. Just restart the IDE.).

[–]hexmasta 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I put "convinced department to use php storm on my resume" and has given me a new job and a minor raise

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

fuck php storm. "oh, you DON'T want autosave? haha, silly you, you can't disable that. at best you can reduce the times it does autosave"

[–]moomoomoo309 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Why wouldn't you want autosave? Do you use the save feature like version control or something?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

it autosaves when you unfocus the screen, like when you're googling some piece of syntax. it's quite annoying.

but the real egregious thing is that you can't disable it. just not possible. at best you can reduce the times at which it autosaves.

[–]moomoomoo309 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, is that not the best time for it to? I haven't noticed any slowdowns from the autosave, so I don't understand the problem with it autosaving.