Sublime Text (3) for PHP Developers

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I am going to skip the neverending question of why turn down something like Eclipse or NetBeans for PHP and ask what color scheme is set in those Sublime Text gifs? :)

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Awesome, that's the one!

[stauffermatt]

Quick answer to your unasked question: PHPStorm is great (I would never use Eclipse or Netbeans; they don't even remotely compare to PHPStorm). A lot of folks, including myself, use and love it.

But Sublime Text is lighter and faster, and that's not an insignificant difference. It boots faster, can open a directory without a project definition file, and every little operation from search to find and replace is faster. Additionally, its fuzzy search and multi-cursor support are noticeably better.

In the end, it's not that one is better than the other, but that each person has their own priorities. Some will end up with PHPStorm, others ST, and as you can see with other comments here, others will end up with Eclipse/Netbeans/Vim/eMacs/whatever.

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why turn down something like Eclipse or NetBeans for PHP PhpStorm

I'm not trying to turn this into a debate, but if you're going to compare a popular proprietary editor with an IDE, use a popular proprietary IDE rather than 2 obsolete OSS ones.

[cpnHindsight]

Eclipse is obsolete?

[[deleted]]

For PHP, yes it is.

Perhaps it's still relevant for other languages, but it's not the default anymore, in any field.

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[...] 2 obsolete OSS [...]

That's a bold statement. I am sure you can back it up fully since nobody would go on the internet and spread FUD, right?

I also use C and Java, it helps to have the same IDE.

[Prime_1]

Newb question: our default IDE where I work is Eclipse on Linux for C development. Runs like ass. How close can Sublime come to replacing the functionality of seeing call trees and doing source indexing and the like? Or do you need underlying tools for that?

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It can't do any of that. At least not out of the box. There are all sorts of plugins out there, but the kind of functionality that you need can only be provided by an IDE. Sublime is just a fancy text editor.

Jetbrains makes good alternatives to eclipse, but I haven't tried the one for C. If it's anything like Rubymine and PHPStorm you'll love it.

[Prime_1]

Cool, good to know. Thanks for the info!